New Delhi: The city on Monday recorded the season’s second warmest night, with the minimum temperature rising to 32.4 degrees Celsius, 5.7 degrees above normal. It was also the highest minimum temperature for May in 14 years.The intrusion of dust worsened Delhi’s air quality, with a haze appearing over the city. At 4pm, when Central…
New Delhi: Amid scorching summer heat, Delhi’s peak power demand touched 8,439 MW on May 25, which is the highest recorded so far in 2026 and the highest ever peak power demand in the first 25 days of May.According to data from State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC), the city’s power demand has crossed the 8,000…
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal has issued a notice to the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, department of science and technology, ministry of Jal Shakti, ministry of earth sciences, Central Pollution Control Board and others to develop comprehensive heat resilience and adaptation frameworks.The tribunal took suo motu cognisance of a TOI report titled…
New Delhi: The number of cooling zones and mobile relief facilities is set to increase further this week as the Delhi govt expands its heatwave response measures amid continuing severe weather conditions in the capital.At present, 14 cooling zones are operational across the city, including five in Old Delhi, five in East Delhi and one…
– 25-05-2026, Delhi Traffic Police personnel are testing ‘AC helmets’ and portable fans to beat the capital’s scorching summer heat. Photo: Anushka Kogta – 25-05-2026, Delhi Traffic Police personnel are testing ‘AC helmets’ and portable fans to beat the capital’s scorching summer heat. Photo: Anushka Kogta – 25-05-2026, Delhi Traffic Police personnel are testing ‘AC…
New Delhi: In one of Delhi’s busiest markets, a new kind of service is changing how people shop. For an hourly fee, a hired “personal helper” will now accompany shoppers through crowded lanes, carry their bags, wait in food queues, help them find seating, guide them to transport points and set up a foldable chair…
New Delhi: Two phone-snatching incidents were reported near India Gate over the weekend, with the victims including a tourist from Canada and an HR executive on her way to AIIMS.In the first incident, which took place on May 22, bike-borne assailants targeted Sukhvinder Singh, a 27-year-old Canada-based police department employee, while he was taking a…
New Delhi: A 21-year-old BBA student died after allegedly shooting himself in the stomach while handling an unlicensed pistol during a party in Rohini on Sunday.The deceased, identified as Raja Singh, was a resident of the area. He worked at a private firm while pursuing his studies, police said. The incident occurred on Sunday evening…
New Delhi: Two men were arrested for allegedly shooting and stabbing two salesmen during a robbery attempt at a govt liquor shop in central Delhi’s Paharganj on Sunday night, police said.The accused entered the shop at RG Complex around 10.15 pm. When the staff resisted, one opened fire while the other attacked a salesman with…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillors raise slogans during a protest over the alleged NEET-UG paper leak case during the House meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, at the Civic Centre in New Delhi on Monday. New Delhi: From AAP councillors waving ‘cockroach’ posters and shouting slogans, to Congress councillors wearing garlands made of Melody…
