New Delhi: Rain lashed parts of the city around 2pm Tuesday, triggering traffic congestion across several key corridors that continued till the evening rush hour. By 4pm, queues of vehicles started building up, affecting traffic for hours on key stretches, including Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, Noida Link Road, parts of Ring Road, and key stretches in south…
New Delhi: A Delhi court recently sentenced a 67-year-old security guard to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl and directed that the survivor be paid Rs 10.5 lakh as compensation.While pronouncing the sentence, the court said the crime had caused deep physical and psychological trauma to the child, warranting stringent punishment…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has pulled up police for allegedly mishandling an investigation into the death of a man in Shahbad Dairy who, before dying, consistently alleged that a person had assaulted him, chased him in a vehicle and deliberately run over him.Despite the victim’s statements, medical evidence and a forensic opinion indicating that…
New Delhi: Police have arrested five people in an extortion case, including the alleged shooter, after he broke into a private builder’s office in central Delhi’s Paharganj area.On June 29, an armed man allegedly entered the office in Arya Nagar, demanded Rs 30 lakh, including an immediate payment of Rs 5 lakh, and threatened that…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court Tuesday refused to grant bail to Athar Khan in the UAPA case pertaining to the alleged “larger conspiracy” behind the Feb 2020 northeast Delhi riots, holding that his role in the violence was prima facie established and that he posed a flight risk.Dismissing Khan’s appeal against a trial court’s Jan…
HIGH COURT IN DELHI. PHOTO BY RAJESH MEHTA. New Delhi: Delhi High Court Tuesday unequivocally told Delhi govt to withdraw its tree felling exemption provision and warned it will bring contempt proceedings if this is not done.“Your intention is to make Delhi a desert…. This notification is atrocious,” Justice Jasmeet Singh told the govt counsel…
New Delhi: A key gateway into the capital has turned into a civic nightmare, with overflowing sewage, cratered roads and chronic traffic snarls crippling movement near the Dera Mandi toll plaza on the Delhi-Haryana border. For months, wastewater from a drain has flooded a busy stretch in the area, forcing thousands of commuters to navigate…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has flagged the “gross wastage of public resources” as expensive medical equipment lies defunct and unused, and ordered an audit across all Delhi govt hospitals for an inventory of such products.The court stepped in after Delhi State Cancer Institute confirmed that PET Cyclotron equipment, used for PET scans, is inoperative…
CJP protest at Jantar Mantar continues for eighteen days (R). Activist Sonam Wangchuk (L) is on his tenth day of an indefinite hunger strike (Photo credit: X/@Abhijeet Dipke) NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party’s protest at Jantar Mantar entered its 18th day on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and accountability…
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