New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will organise a World Tourism Day celebration at Baansera, Sarai Kale Khan, on Sept 26 and 27, to showcase India’s rich diversity in tourism, art, craft, cuisine and music.The park will be divided into six themed zones. The first one will be Hunar Gali, where traditional arts and crafts…
New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has sought an action-taken report from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) over allegations of sexual harassment reportedly raised by some female students against a professor.The commission took suo motu cognisance of a video circulating on social media in which the students alleged that they had submitted a complaint against…
New Delhi: “There was not even a whisper of a casteist remark,” self-styled Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj claimed before a court Monday, alleging his arrest under SC/ST Act was politically motivated and the complainant had attacked him during the July Jantar Mantar incident.Appearing before additional sessions judge Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler for bail, Bhardwaj’s counsel,…
New Delhi: Five people, including two women, have been arrested in connection with the murder of an e-rickshaw driver in Sector 28, Rohini. A knife allegedly used in the crime, along with the vehicles involved and blood-stained clothes, has also been recovered. The arrested have been identified as Anuj (19), Himanshu (21), Sachin (22), Nandini…
New Delhi: The service on a small stretch between Rajiv Chowk and Patel Chowk metro stations on Yellow Line was impacted for over four hours by a signalling issue Monday, causing inconvenience to commuters. As the Metro ran at a restricted speed, commuters claimed that there was a cascading effect on other sections of the…
New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has constituted a four-member fact-finding committee to examine CCTV footage related to an alleged incident in which a lizard was found in a student’s bowl of pulses at one of its school hostels Sunday. The university has also sought assistance from govt investigating agencies to establish the facts surrounding…
Weather analysts expect scattered rainfall between Sept 15 and 17. New Delhi: The city saw a humid day when the late afternoon heat index was 45.5 degrees Celsius. The Met, however, expects patchy rain in some parts of the city this week.The heat index, which at 2.30 pm was 45.5 degrees Celsius, came down to…
New Delhi: Two bodies, including the headless body of a newborn, were found in separate incidents in outer Delhi, prompting police to initiate investigations into the circumstances surrounding the deaths.In the first incident, the headless body of a newborn was found in the Kanjhawala area Monday. Police received information about the body lying in Mubarakpur…
Vijay Kumar was shot dead outside his gym in Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri NEW DELHI: A bloody rivalry in south Delhi’s Aya Nagar is once again under the police scanner after a gym trainer was shot dead in broad daylight on Monday, with investigators examining whether his killing is connected to two earlier murders that allegedly…
Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh was hearing the case against Arif, Mohd Khalid, Abdul Sattar, Tanveer Ali, and Hunain. (File Photo) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has convicted five men for rioting and assaulting police personnel during violence at a Bhajanpura petrol pump in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, while acquitting them of the charge…
