New Delhi: Protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), including the one over the Nirbhaya incident in 2012 and against a professor accused of sexual harassment in 2018, have traditionally brought classes to a standstill, kept senior administrators confined to their offices and dominated national headlines for days.Against that record, the response of the JNU campus…
New Delhi: A 32-year-old man allegedly shot a woman in the leg before killing himself in northeast Delhi’s Johri Pur Friday morning, police said.The incident was reported around 7.41 am, near Shiv Mandir, under Gokalpuri police station limits.When police reached the spot, the injured woman, Rajwati (48), had already been taken to a hospital. The…
New Delhi: Scores of women students of Jamia Millia Islamia’s Jammu and Kashmir Girls Hostel broke through the hostel gates and defied a 10pm curfew Wednesday night to march to the university’s Centenary Gate. There, they staged a sit-in over “repeated incidents” of insects and other foreign objects contaminating the food served at the hostel…
NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old man died after being stabbed 17 times following an altercation with two men near a school in east Delhi’s Mandawali Thursday, police said. Preliminary investigation suggests that one of the accused suspected the victim was having an affair with his married sister.Police arrived after a PCR call regarding the incident at…
New Delhi: Manipuri musician Chongtham Vikram Singh, who was allegedly beaten to death by eight people outside his home in Delhi, had suffered extensive injuries, including fractures to at least 15 ribs, his postmortem report revealed.Singh, a resident of Kilokari Ashram in southeast Delhi, was allegedly assaulted with fists and feet around 11.30pm on Sept…
NEW DELHI: A businessman was allegedly robbed of a cash bag containing around Rs 30 lakh by four men riding a scooter in Shahdara’s Krishna Nagar Friday morning, police said.The incident was reported from E Block, when the businessman was travelling from his residence towards Gandhi Nagar.Police arrived after a PCR call regarding the incident…
New Delhi: A property dealer was shot dead allegedly by a chicken shop owner in south Delhi’s Tigri Thursday night following a dispute over money, police said.The accused, Mohid, was caught while he was allegedly on his way to the police station after the incident. Police said he confessed to the killing and told them…
New Delhi: An unidentified person allegedly robbed an 88-year-old man of Rs 80,000 outside his house in southwest Delhi’s Najafgarh Wednesday. A case was registered and one accused has been held.The complainant, a resident of Shyam Vihar Phase 2, told police that he had gone to a bank near Najafgarh around 11 am to withdraw…
New Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has identified 99 projects that need to be completed on priority. These are projects that are of high public use, such as roads, drainage, markets, EV infrastructure, healthcare and civic amenities.The civic body is conducting weekly reviews of all major procurements and projects under the leadership of NDMC…
New Delhi: The proposed Ice Skating Stadium at DDA Sports Complex in Sector 23, Dwarka, has hit a hurdle at the conceptual stage after Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) flagged deficiencies in the documents submitted for approval.The proposal, submitted online by the project architect, was taken up by the commission but not accepted due to…
