NEW DELHI: For a month, most residents of Block 10 in Dakshinpuri have been living without the dignity of a proper bath. In the morning, women who work as domestic help leave for the homes they clean in South Delhi, carrying a humiliation: asking employers for permission to take a bath in the houses where…
NEW DELHI: The four-day heatwave streak abated on Friday, but the city remained in the grip of intense heat.Though there is a possibility of a thundery development on Saturday under the influence of a feeble western disturbance, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said no significant respite is expected, and heatwave conditions are likely in parts of…
NEW DELHI: For many CBSE Class 12 students, the end of examinations has not brought relief. Instead, the post-result process has opened a fresh chapter of anxiety, with complaints over glitches, inaccessible portals and concerns around the evaluation system continuing to pile up. Days after students reported login failures and disruptions in accessing post-result services,…
New Delhi: Delhi Police is probing the personal enmity angle in the murder of a woman and her 13-year-old son in southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri on Thursday.Investigators suspect the killers were known to the victims as both were stabbed multiple times, indicating the attack might have been driven by deep-seated anger. Police have detained a person…
New Delhi: CBI has arrested an assistant commissioner of the food and supply department for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 in connection with the allotment of ration cards.The case was registered on May 20 on a complaint alleging that the officer had demanded Rs 100 per ration card for the allotment of 475…
New Delhi: A woman died by alleged suicide in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh on Friday. Police said that she had recently been facing opposition from her family about wanting to marry a man.The deceased was identified as a local caretaker.Inquiry revealed that her room was found locked from the inside and was later broken open…
New Delhi: Taking an “empathetic view” since Umar Khalid’s mother has to undergo surgery, Delhi High Court on Friday granted him three days interim bail in the UAPA case alleging larger conspiracy in the commission of the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain permitted Khalid to be released…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has convicted three men — Ikram, Sarfaraz and Mustaqueem — in a case related to the 2020 north-east Delhi riots, holding that they were part of an unlawful assembly that “continuously indulged in stone pelting upon the police force” during violence near Bhajanpura Chowk and Karawal Nagar Road on Feb…
New Delhi: Amid ongoing desilting operations across major drains and nullahs ahead of the monsoon, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has raised concerns over delay in cleaning the disused canal drain connecting Karkari Mor to the SDM office in east Delhi.The civic body claimed that no work had started at site till last week…
While publishers tighten enforcement, affordability still drives demand A recent piracy crackdown in Delhi has spotlighted what’s being sold and read on the city’s streets. In March, Penguin Random House, alongside Simon & Schuster and Hay House, worked with Delhi Police to seize over 20,000 books from a Rohini-based racket, uncovering an illegal printing press…
