NEW DELHI: A drug that has been on the market for several decades and is a go-to for lakhs of women in labour across the world is barely ever used in govt hospitals in Delhi.Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) is now trying to change that by offering women epidural analgesia to relieve labour pain.Though labour…
Have you wondered what happens after you complain against a cab driver to the ride hailing app? The information may unsettle you because a passenger’s concern for safety does not match an app’s pecking order of complaint redress.Behind the current blackhole-like opacity of most cab aggregator apps lies a categorybased complaint system that commuters are…
New Delhi: Central govt’s estate office, which has begun eviction proceedings against Delhi Gymkhana Club, is likely to adjourn the hearing Tuesday, when the club has been asked to submit its stand.With Delhi High Court Monday issuing notice to Centre and listing it for next hearing on July 28, no effective hearing is expected before…
Delhi Police have successfully arrested six suspects linked to Shehzad Bhatti, believed to be scheming an attack New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested six alleged associates of Pakistan-based terrorist Shehzad Bhatti, who were allegedly planning an attack on a police station near ITO in central Delhi, reports Rajshekhar Jha.Police said the group had also done…
Chief minister Vijay is scheduled to meet the families of the Karur stampede victims on July 10. The Sept 2025 tragedy at a political event claimed 41 lives and left several others injured. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court agreed to hear Tuesday a plea filed by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) seeking its intervention to restrain…
A newlywed woman, Akriti, died hours after a workplace wedding celebration, allegedly falling from a south Delhi building. NEW DELHI: Akriti got married in April. Barely three months later, she was dead after allegedly falling from the third floor of an NDMC residential building in south Delhi. Days before her death, the 28-year-old sales executive…
New Delhi: With the University of Delhi’s undergraduate admissions entering the crucial preference-filling stage, several colleges have started counselling and outreach initiatives to guide aspirants through the Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) process and help them make informed choices before seat allotment.Many colleges have opened their campuses to prospective students and parents through dedicated guidance…
New Delhi: In the first week, over 76.3 lakh enumeration forms have been distributed in the capital under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. The exercise has so far covered 52.6% of the capital’s 1.4 crore electors as of July 6.Among the distributed forms, 2,78,070 have been digitised, accounting for 1.9%…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has told all schools to implement several child safety measures, including mandatory staff training, stricter compliance checks and coordinated inspections, and set up child protection committees in all 5,633 schools across the capital by the end of July.The aim is to strengthen the protection of students with a better implementation of…
New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of sexually assaulting a five-year-old boy in a 2022 Pocso case, observing that a child of such an age “would never implicate an unknown person without any motive”. Holding the boy’s testimony to be “so natural” that it could not be disbelieved, the court convicted the accused…
