Kuki students’ organisation stage a protest at Jantar Mantar, marking three years of the outbreak of ethnic violence in Manipur New Delhi: In the last week of April 2023, Nenghoikim thought she was simply heading home to Churachandpur after work in Imphal. The schoolteacher remembers the roads feeling tense and unfamiliar. A drive that usually…
New Delhi: When a residential building in Vivek Vihar turned into a furnace, the difference between life and death rested on split-second acts of bravery.Trapped between intimidating walls of flames and jammed exits, the residents’ narrow path to survival was shaped by a group of bravehearts who refused to succumb to fire or panic. Even…
The backside of four storey building in Vivek Vihar, Shahdara, where a fire broke out early Sunday morning. (Photo: Anushka Kogta) NEW DELHI: Protective iron grills sealing one side and a locked terrace cutting off the only escape turned a four-storey building in Delhi’s Vivek Vihar into a death trap as a pre-dawn fire tore…
NEW DELHI: Delhi is set for another major Metro push, with CM Rekha Gupta likely to announce phase V (b), a 97-km expansion with seven corridors and 65 stations aimed at taking the Metro network deeper into outer city areas.The new lines will connect Najafgarh to Nangloi, Central Secretariat to Kishangarh, and extend the network…
The fire officials stated that the blaze involved domestic articles in at least six flats of the building. (Photo: TOI/Anushka Kogta) NEW DELHI: Nine people were killed and several others rescued after a devastating fire swept through a four-storey residential building in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar in the early hours of Sunday, with preliminary accounts…
Students protest VC at Jamia hostel function over RSS event row NEW DELHI: Protests were reported at Jamia Millia Islamia on Friday night as students raised slogans against Vice Chancellor Mazhar Asif during an annual hostel function, alleging his complicity in allowing an RSS-linked event on the university campus, according to ANI. According to videos…
NEW DELHI: At least nine people were killed after a massive blaze broke out in a residential building in Shahdara in the early hours of Sunday. According to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), a call regarding the fire was received at 3.27 am, following which 14 fire tenders and over 80 fire personnel were rushed…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the bail plea of Al-Falah University chairman Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui in a money laundering case, with Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan observing that the allegations against him are “grave and serious in nature” and that no grounds for relief are made out at this stage.The case…
New Delhi: Children with higher screen exposure when they are around one year are associated with a greater likelihood of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism-like traits by three, experts have warned, raising concern over early and prolonged screen use.ASD is a complex condition shaped by genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors, with early screen exposure…
New Delhi: A four-year-old boy died and his brother was injured after a fire broke out while they were sleeping at their residence in northeast Delhi’s Gokalpuri on Saturday. Police suspect that a short circuit in the air conditioner may have triggered the incident.Upon reaching the spot near Kardam Dharmshala, police found that two children,…
