NEW DELHI: After a brief rain relief, the mercury has started rising again, with the maximum temperature touching 40.1 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal, on Sunday at the city’s base station, Safdarjung.For the first time this season, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for heatwave conditions in isolated areas from Wednesday…
AI-generated representational image NEW DELHI: An elderly man was murdered at his residence in central Delhi’s Mandir Marg, a high-security area, on Sunday evening. Madho Ram (63), who retired as a multi-tasking staffer of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), was found with several stab injuries in a room on the first floor of his house,…
New Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has informed National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it has started issuing challans against individuals for creating “insanitary conditions” by feeding pigeons in the open.Seventy-six challans have been issued since Jan this year. Regular clean-up drives are being conducted at spots where people generally feed pigeons.NGT is hearing a…
New Delhi: Long burdened by losses, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has reported a significant rise in income, posting an increase of around Rs 173 crore in 2025-26 (till March 26). The corporation’s total income rose from Rs 822.5 crore in 2024-25 to Rs 995.5 crore, reflecting improved operational efficiency and reforms undertaken by the…
– Garbage piled up near the tracks at Kishanganj railway station. Photo: Anushka Kogta – Garbage piled up near the tracks at Azadpur Village railway station. Photo: Anushka Kogta – Garbage piled up near the tracks at Azadpur Village railway station. Photo: Anushka Kogta – Garbage piled up near the tracks at Dayabasti railway station….
New Delhi: On a typical day in the city, it is often children who voice the most unsettling questions. Why can’t we see the sun clearly? Why does the air feel heavy to breathe? Their questions, simple yet piercing, reflect a reality that adults have gradually learned to overlook. It is this instinctive curiosity, coupled…
New Delhi: Sixty-one-year-old Tejpal, a resident of Rewari in Haryana, was deeply troubled by his son Rishipal’s growing alcohol dependence. A small-time shop owner with limited means but strong resolve, he was desperate to find a solution that could save his 28-year-old son from the grip of addiction.Tejpal was frantically exploring options when he came…
New Delhi: Delhi forest department has withdrawn a tender for carrying out an anti-termite treatment in Central Ridge, where it is developing theme-based plantations, using toxic chemicals like chlorpyriphos and lindane.TOI had reported on April 18 that the tender had been floated and the use of such chemicals in the soil could kill beneficial microbes…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi has asked its toll tax department to immediately implement the revised environment compensation charges (ECC) following a recent order of Supreme Court.The enhanced rates, which are for all commercial vehicles entering Delhi, are part of an ongoing effort to discourage polluting commercial vehicles from entering Delhi.Under the the revised…
New Delhi: Delhi Police are learnt to have detained a man in Mumbai in connection with the heist reported from the house of a liquor businessman in the Golf Links area of central Delhi last week.A team conducted raids in Varsova and other areas of Mumbai after the suspect, nicknamed Guddu, contacted an informer in…
