New Delhi: A 50-year-old security guard died after an iron sliding gate collapsed on him at an under-construction ministry of external affairs (MEA) hostel on KG Marg in central Delhi Sunday.Police have registered a case under Section 106 (causing death by negligence) of BNS.The victim, Dharampal, a contractual employee from Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, was…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has overhauled the licensing process for cinema halls and multiplexes, scrapping the existing system of obtaining separate no-objection certificates (NOCs) from multiple departments and introducing a single-window, district-level mechanism with fixed timelines for approvals. The new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) removes police licensing powers and replaces the old system with a…
New Delhi: A Delhi court Monday dismissed the bail plea of Central Procurement Agency (CPA) official Vinod Kumar Ranga in the alleged Rs 700-crore medical procurement scam, with special judge Vidya Prakash citing the early stage of the investigation and the seriousness of the allegations.Ranga’s defence had argued he had been in custody for over…
New Delhi: A tiranga yatra organised by New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) in Connaught Place Monday drew sharp criticism from traders, who alleged that they were neither informed about the event beforehand nor consulted about its arrangements.Holding it on a working day disrupted businesses, they claimed, adding that road blockades and tents installed by the…
New Delhi: Police have arrested a labourer in north Delhi for allegedly killing his minor cousin, then stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping it in the Burari area.The murder went undetected initially, but a police informer became suspicious about the labourer, Avinash, after he saw the man leaving with a suitcase and then…
New Delhi: A 16-year-old boy from UP’s Muzaffarnagar, weighing nearly 275 kg and BMI close to 100, has undergone a high-risk laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital after severe obesity left him with breathing difficulty, obstructive sleep apnoea and extensive skin infection.The teenager had become so large that he could not fit into…
New Delhi: Delhi University has warned that the DUSU elections would be called off if it keps getting complaints that candidates were using more than five cars in their campaign convoy or were bringing luxury cars on the campus.The campaign has caused traffic jams and violence on the campus in the run-up to the polls.University…
New Delhi: Student groups staged a protest outside NTA’s office in Okhla Monday, demanding accountability from the agency after a recent circular called for re-examinations in three UGC-NET subjects. The re-test is scheduled to be conducted in three weeks.The circular states factual and grammatical errors in the question paper, as well as repetition of questions,…
New Delhi: A 15-year-old Kota girl has been visiting AIIMS Delhi since she was two for a congenital heart defect, but her father alleges that despite repeated consultations and surgery dates, the corrective procedure never took place.Tanvi was first brought to AIIMS on Oct 10, 2012, when she was two. Her records document ventricular septal…
New Delhi: A routine investigation for a life-threatening heart condition led doctors at a Delhi hospital to uncover another serious illness in a 64-year-old man — a cricket-ball-sized cancerous tumour in his left kidney.Doctors treated his torn aorta — the body’s main artery — a severely leaking aortic valve and kidney cancer during a single…
