New Delhi: In a major breakthrough for Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies, high-profile gangster Venkatesh Garg is being extradited from Georgia. According to sources, he could land in Delhi on Thursday.Garg is wanted in more than a dozen criminal cases in Delhi and Haryana and was allegedly running the gang from foreign soil.The extradition…
New Delhi: A video showing a woman and her bike taxi rider being injured following an alleged road rage incident near Rohini Sector 19 has gone viral on social media.According to the woman, she had booked a bike taxi through an aggregator platform when their bike collided with another motorcycle. She claimed that the other…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the response of Delhi Police on a bail plea filed by former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.The division bench of Justices Neena Bansal Krishna and Madhu Jain issued a notice on the plea and listed the…
New Delhi: A 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a man during a robbery in southwest Delhi’s Jaffarpur Kalan will be tried as an adult, following an order by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB). Police alleged that the juvenile, along with two associates, killed the man last year and later set his body on fire to…
New Delhi: A deputy manager of a cooperative bank has been arrested for allegedly facilitating the opening of a bank account that was later used by cyber fraudsters to route nearly Rs 67.9 crore of cheated funds, police have said.Pabitra Kumar Biswal, a resident of Mayur Vihar in east Delhi, was arrested following an investigation…
New Delhi: Two squalls with wind speeds of up to 120kmph battered Delhi on Tuesday night, uprooting trees and snapping branches across the city and triggering at least 42 calls to Delhi Traffic Police, nearly 40 to the PWD control room and eight to NDMC.Even on Wednesday morning, fallen trees and hanging branches continued to…
New Delhi: For more than two weeks, a 77-year-old man’s worsening breathlessness was blamed on advanced lung disease. But when treatment failed and his oxygen levels plunged to 65%, doctors discovered an unexpected cause: a pea stuck deep inside his airway.The elderly patient, a known case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for the past…
New Delhi: BJP functionaries, including party national president Nitin Nabin, Union minister J P Nadda and Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta, offered prayers at temples to mark Narendra Modi’s record as the longest-serving elected Prime Minister of India.Modi on Wednesday completed an unbroken tenure of 4,399 days in office, surpassing the record of first Prime…
New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of attempting to rape a differently abled woman, relying on the testimony of her mother and a psychiatric assessment that said the survivor had a social age of “one year and two months” and suffered from “profound social intellectual impairment”.Social age is a measure of a person’s…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet in connection with the security breach at the Delhi Assembly that was reported on April 6.The accused, identified as Sarabjit Singh (37), a resident of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in the case. According to the chargesheet, the incident took place around 2.10 pm when a…
