New Delhi: Parts of the city saw a thunderstorm around 9am on Thursday with winds gusting around 40kmph even as the day turned out to be warm and humid despite a drop in the temperatures. The weather department, however, expects respite from extreme heat over the next few days, before temperatures rise above 40 degrees…
New Delhi: A housewife was allegedly beaten to death with a hammer by her husband following a domestic dispute in northeast Delhi’s Gautampuri in the early hours of Thursday. The husband has been arrested.The accused, identified as Daud Ishaq Khan, a 36-year-old autorickshaw driver, reportedly called a friend after committing the crime to say that…
New Delhi: Delhi govt’s Hindi Academy has named several of its literary awards after nationalists and freedom fighters, including Veer Savarkar, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Madan Mohan Malaviya. A new Atal Bihari Vajpayee Award for promotion of Indian culture and knowledge traditions has also been instituted. A Hindi service award has been named after…
New Delhi: Nearly four years after the forest department imposed a Rs 5.9-crore penalty on Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) for the alleged illegal removal of 990 trees at the Bijwasan project site in Dwarka, Central Empowered Committee (CEC) and the forest department have granted permission to the authority to transplant or fell 1,254 trees…
NEW DELHI: Parts of Delhi-NCR witnessed rain and gusty winds on Thursday night as weather conditions changed abruptly across the region, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red alert for the national capital over the next few hours.The weather department warned of thunderstorms accompanied by lightning, dust-raising winds and intense surface winds…
New Delhi: Delhi govt is planning a framework for regulating coaching institutes that will have guidelines on fee structure, student safety, mental health support, infrastructure standards and staff welfare.A high-level meeting with senior officials from key regulatory and civic agencies was chaired by education and urban development minister Ashish Sood on Thursday.Govt has made the…
Flames billows after a fire broke out on the fourth floor of a paying guest accommodation operating from a four-storey building at Subzi Mandi area New Delhi: A fire broke out at a paying guest (PG) accommodation in north Delhi‘s Subzi Mandi area on Thursday evening, prompting the evacuation of several residents, including students. No…
NEW DELHI: An African woman died on Thursday after allegedly jumping from the third floor of a residential building during a raid conducted by the Anti-Narcotics Squad (ANS) in the Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar area, according to news agency PTI.The incident took place during an ongoing investigation linked to an NDPS case registered at Burari police…
New Delhi: A DRDO employee losing over Rs 15.7 lakh in a work-from-home, task-based investment scam led Delhi Police to uncover a cyber fraud syndicate and arrest three accused, including two students.The arrests were made from Haryana and Rajasthan during an interstate operation.According to police, the victim was contacted through social media by fraudsters posing…
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has initiated an extensive plantation drive across the city.As part of this major urban afforestation programme launched as per LG T S Sandhu’s direction, nearly 23 lakh native saplings, comprising trees, shrubs, and bushes, are proposed to be planted across 1,000 acres of land, equivalent to nearly 4 square…
