(File photo of Shaheen Bagh road) A Shaheen Bagh road drain will finally be covered after a significant civic hazard NEW DELHI: A stretch of open drain that had turned a key Shaheen Bagh road into an open sewer is finally set to be covered, with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) sanctioning Rs 4…
SCS candidate Vishesh Yadav seeks re-poll NEW DELHI: A day after the DUSU election results were announced, Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha-backed candidate Vishesh Yadav has called for a re-poll, alleging that the joint-secretary contest saw a sudden shift in vote counts during the final round of counting.Yadav, who finished second, also alleged that students were coerced…
ABVP’s Yash Dabas (M) won the DUSU president’s post, while Deepanshu Shokeen (R) was elected vice-president and Riya Chhawdi (L) won secretary’s post NEW DELHI: ABVP retained control of Delhi University Students’ Union, winning 3 of the 4 central-panel posts. Independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen broke the sweep, winning the vice-president’s post.Shokeen, an NSUI rebel, is…
CM Rekha Gupta, former CM Arvind Kejriwal NEW DELHI: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, ex-CM Arvind Kejriwal and his family members, and some other netas have been served notices as part of the SIR over “discrepancies” in their voter details. While Kejriwal, his father, mother, wife and son have received notices for being unmapped with 2002…
ABVP triumphed by winning three out of four positions in the Delhi University Students’ Union elections NEW DELHI: The Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections this year had acquired a larger-than-usual profile as a string of events — successful Gen Z protests, the horrific tragedy of the Satya Niketan building collapse and Congress’ Rahul Gandhi’s…
The DUSU election results highlighted a contest that extended beyond the traditional ABVP NSUI binary NEW DELHI: Deepanshu Shokeen’s victory as an Independent has emerged as the most striking story of this year’s Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election not just because he won the vice president’s post by a huge margin, but because he…
Writer Nasera Sharma at her residence For many literature lovers, Nasera Sharma is the author of the Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel, ‘Parijat’. But as a freelance journalist and researcher, she has also interviewed top West Asian leaders.In the early 1980s, Iran was uncertain. The monarchy was gone; clerics had taken over. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was…
Anya Vats (L), Victim Yuvraj Singh Manchanda (R) NEW DELHI: “Sell your wife/do anything, just repay this,” read a WhatsApp message cited in an FIR filed by a senior executive who allegedly lost over Rs 1.2 crore in a fraud racket involving Yuvraj Singh Manchanda’s former colleague Anya Vats and her partner Sanyam Sachdeva. Police…
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor TS Sandhu Saturday joined Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) staff and young volunteers of the Vrikshit Foundation in a cleanliness drive at Durlabh Nath Vatika in Shakurpur, and urged citizens to make cleanliness a daily habit and Shramdaan a people’s movement.The visit was organised as part of the Swachhata Hi Sewa…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has dropped MCOCA charge against an accused absconding since 2013. The prosecution found no evidence linking him to an organised crime syndicate, and the court observed that no material on record justified invoking the stringent law against him.Special Judge Gagandeep Singh observed that “there is no connect or material with…
