New Delhi: A 28-year-old gardener, who appeared unassuming and blended seamlessly into South Delhi’s upscale residential colonies, allegedly led a covert double life as a serial housebreaker, quietly conducting recces of locked homes before striking with housebreaking tools.His alleged crime trail came to light after a burglary on May 20 at the residence of a…
New Delhi: Barely hours after US secretary of state Marco Rubio landed in Delhi on Saturday, the capital’s IGI Airport again became the target of GPS spoofing.About 10 to 12 aircraft nearing the airport on Saturday evening and night reported the menace, seen on this scale after a few months. Govt agencies are probing the…
New Delhi: Hip replacement surgeries among Indians in their 30s and 40s have risen by nearly 40% in the post-Covid period, with doctors linking the surge to steroid-related bone damage and delayed diagnosis of avascular necrosis (AVN), a painful condition that destroys the hip joint.May is observed as Arthritis Awareness Month, and orthopaedic experts at…
New Delhi: Police have busted an illegal Chinese manjha godown and arrested two men for allegedly selling the banned synthetic kite string. A total of 2,040 rolls of manjha have been seized from the godown in southwest Delhi’s Uttam Nagar.Police had received a tip-off about the illegal storage of manjha, after which a raid was…
New Delhi: Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday emphatically rejected suggestions that tribal traditions were distinct from Hindu practices, a point made by ideological rivals of BJP and RSS, and made it clear that Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will impose no curbs on the way of life of tribal communities.Addressing ‘Janjati Sanskritik Samagam’, which saw…
New Delhi: Delhi Traffic Police registered 1,170 FIRs, impounded 1,179 vehicles and issued 12,568 challans during a two-day special enforcement drive against wrong-side driving conducted across the capital on May 22 and 23.The crackdown was carried out on major roads, intersections, highways, vulnerable stretches and accident-prone locations across the city.“Wrong-side driving has emerged as a…
People cover themselves on a hot summer day New Delhi: By late May, Delhi feels like a furnace. Roads shimmer under the afternoon glare, metro pillars radiate heat long after sunset, and even pockets of city forests seem to exhale warmth.Across northwest India, temperatures push past 45°C, bringing heatstroke warnings, water stress and exhausted streets….
New Delhi: An 18-year-old boy died by suicide while on a video call with a female friend in northwest Delhi’s Azadpuri in the early hours of Sunday.The boy worked in a factory and is survived by his mother and sister.According to police, a PCR call went to Adarsh Nagar police station. The cops rushed the…
New Delhi: A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by three youths in northwest Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy on Saturday night, police said. A video of the incident surfaced on social media showed the victim lying on the road with a knife lodged in his back as bystanders gathered around him.Police said information regarding the…
Employees of the historic Delhi Gymkhana Club face job losses and uncertainty after the Centre ordered the club to vacate its Lutyens’ Delhi premises by June 5. NEW DELHI: Anxiety and uncertainty have gripped employees of the historic Delhi Gymkhana Club after the Centre directed the elite institution to vacate its premises by June 5,…
