New Delhi: Women eligible for the Rs 2,500 monthly financial assistance under govt’s Delhi Lakshmi Yojana will start receiving sanction letters from Aug 26 onwards. The money will be credited directly to their bank accounts from Sept 1, chief minister Rekha Gupta said Tuesday after a meeting in the Delhi secretariat.On Aug 1, govt started…
New Delhi: A Delhi court Tuesday granted four weeks’ interim bail on medical grounds to Dr Vatsala Aggarwal, former Director General of Health Services (DGHS), who was arrested in an alleged Rs 700-crore medical procurement scam.On Monday, the Rouse Avenue court had rejected the regular bail plea of Dr Vinod Kumar Ranga, an ex-Central Procurement…
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal has directed Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to submit a further progress report on its ongoing study into exposure to potentially cancer-causing flame-retardant chemicals inside cars. The research is now expected to be completed by May 2027.The direction was issued by NGT’s principal bench on Aug 13 in a…
Former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain was arrested in a corruption case. NEW DELHI: Former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain was among six people arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Tuesday in connection with an alleged corruption case involving the tendering process for sewage treatment plant projects of the Delhi Jal…
New Delhi: A 70-year-old singer was found dead inside his locked house in southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri Extension, nearly three days after he was last contacted, police said.The deceased, identified as Rabi Dey, originally from Kolkata, was residing alone for the past three years. Police said they received a PCR call around 11 pm on Aug…
The BWF World Championships, New Delhi 2026 will be held from August 17 to 23 With 30 days to go for the BWF World Championships, New Delhi 2026, Union Sports Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya and Badminton Association of India president Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma unveiled the tournament’s official mascot, Peacko, and championship anthem on Saturday.Inspired…
Judge said the officers’ duty was to search for the minor’s father. (Representative Image) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has dismissed a plea filed by four Gujarat Police officers accused of taking a minor boy from Delhi to Ahmedabad while searching for his father, observing that the policemen acted like “colonial overlords” and used the…
CJP’s chief spokesperson Saurav Das interacts with journalists in Delhi. NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson Saurav Das on Tuesday questioned the Delhi government’s reluctance to submit before the court the list of FIRs it has been told to quash, saying the key issue for the protesting students is the withdrawal of cases registered…
The Delhi high court denied default bail to Jasir Bilal Wani (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday refused to grant default bail to Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, one of the accused in the 2025 Red Fort car bomb blast case.A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajan dismissed…
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke’s educational qualifications are under question with social media posts and podcast discussions doing the rounds claiming that he did not study at Boston University. The controversy has now been turned into a political issue, with Dipke saying he is…
