New Delhi: Heavy rain cleaned Delhi’s air on Thursday, with the air quality index (AQI) improving to 48, from 59 a day earlier.As a result, residents could enjoy ‘good’ air for the first time in nearly three years. The city last recorded such a day on Sept 10, 2023, when the AQI dropped to 45…
New Delhi: The bodies of two more people were pulled out Thursday from under the debris of two under-construction buildings that collapsed in Rohini Sector 16 Wednesday, taking the death toll to three.The deceased were identified as Nurul alias Kafe (24), a labourer, and Ram Dua (62), the husband of one of the building owners….
Multiple rounds were fired outside a banquet hall in East Delhi’s Madhu Vihar. NEW DELHI: An incident of firing outside a Banquet hall was reported in east Delhi’s Madhu Vihar on Thursday night.Police said a PCR call was received regarding the incident at 8pm.A team reached the spot and found that multiple rounds were fired,…
New Delhi: A seven-year-old boy drowned in a waterlogged vacant plot in outer Delhi’s Samaypur Badli Thursday morning.Rehan was a Class III student and his family has been living in the area for around nine years. According to police, Rehan and his five-year-old brother had gone to the plot in Sanjay Colony around 8.30am to…
A file photo of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. NEW DELHI: A BTech graduate who worked as a Mathematics teacher at coaching centres in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar has been arrested for allegedly helping the Hari Boxer-Lawrence Bishnoi gang conduct a recce of a businessman they later tried to extort, news agency PTI reported on Thursday.The accused, identified…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta Thursday launched a STEM education and school transformation programme at Shalimar Bagh Village Govt Girls’ Senior Secondary School, calling it a “benchmark for future-ready learning”.The school has been equipped with STEM and computer laboratories, smart classrooms and upgraded sanitation facilities. Student awareness sessions on menstrual hygiene, nutrition, cyber safety,…
New Delhi: A video surfaced online Thursday, showing a laboratory at the Rohini campus of Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University flooded with rainwater, its equipment drenched and an electrical panel remaining operational despite the leakage. The DSEU administration has temporarily suspended classes in the affected area and shifted practical sessions to another laboratory.The video, recorded…
New Delhi: A 45-year-old teacher engaged in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls allegedly jumped off Rani Jhansi Flyover Thursday. Police said a handwritten note seized from the spot suggested that he had been under immense pressure.The man had allegedly jumped from at least 30 feet in a suicide attempt. He sustained multiple…
New Delhi: A 26-year-old man died after allegedly drowning in a swimming pool at a school in southwest Delhi’s Najafgarh Wednesday.The deceased, Rahul Rai, a resident of Jharoda village in southwest Delhi, packed cartons at a private company owned by his friend. Doctors at a private hospital declared him brought dead when the police arrived…
70% more drains cleared this year before monsoon showers, says DDANew Delhi: DDA has claimed to have removed more than 57,000 metric tonnes of silt from stormwater drains under its pre-monsoon desilting drive, marking an over 70% increase compared to last year. Enhancing the carrying capacity of drains will reduce instances of waterlogging.“Desilting exercise has…
