NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches against the Vedanta Group as part of an investigation under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), officials said on Tuesday.Sources said the action against the mining conglomerate, promoted by billionaire industrialist Anil Agarwal, was initiated on Monday.According to officials, the searches were carried out after the…
Step-by-step guide to how rescue operations work NEW DELHI: When disaster strikes, be it a building collapse or an earthquake, the enormous pile of concrete and steel is the first hurdle between life and death. For rescue teams, extricating victims from the mounds of debris is a race against time.At a rescue site, operations shift…
NEW DELHI: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale struck the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).The tremor occurred at 7:43:17 am IST at a depth of 10 kilometres, the NCS said.According to the agency, the earthquake was recorder at a latitude of 14.027 N,…
AbhayNew Delhi: Police on Monday arrested 70-year-old Karamveer, the owner of the multi-storey commercial building in south Delhi’s Saidulajab that collapsed on Saturday evening, killing six people.He was nabbed from his Vasant Kunj residence. Karamveer is a rental property businessman in the area and has multiple holdings in Saidulajab and other areas of Delhi, police…
– 01-06-2026, Rescue operations underway after a multi-storey building collapsed on Saturday evening near the Saket Metro station, in New Delhi. Photo: Anushka Kogta – 01-06-2026, Rescue operations underway after a multi-storey building collapsed on Saturday evening near the Saket Metro station, in New Delhi. Photo: Anushka Kogta – 01-06-2026, Rescue operations underway after a…
Representative image created using AI NEW DELHI: A court has convicted a man and his mother in a dowry death case after a decade, finding that the woman was subjected to sustained dowry-related harassment, including physical abuse and demands for an additional Rs 50,000, until days before she had killed herself within seven years of…
New Delhi: The challenges before the Saidulajab rescue personnel on Saturday were complex. Before them were many tonnes of debris piled high in a small area, which could only be accessed by narrow roads. Another problem was a destabilised building next to the one that had collapsed.Given the circumstances, the rescuers chose to go for…
New Delhi: Six days after being shot in the head during a heated altercation at an eatery in southeast Delhi’s Amar Colony, 17-year-old Sai Kumar died on Monday, bringing a tragic end to a week-long battle for survival.Police have arrested two adult associates of the juvenile accused on Monday. The two were accompanying the minor…
New Delhi: Delhi’s rooftop solar expansion has gathered momentum, with more than 24,000 consumers now generating electricity on their rooftops and contributing up to 420MW-peak to the city’s power grid, according to the latest figures of Delhi govt.Rooftop solar adoption accelerated sharply during 2025-26 financial year pushed by subsidies under central govt’s PM Surya Ghar:…
New Delhi: A 12-year-old boy sustained a gunshot injury to his leg after being caught in firing allegedly carried out by three men in northeast Delhi’s New Usmanpur area on Monday.Police said they received information about the firing and rushed to the spot. Preliminary investigation revealed that three men had allegedly opened fire outside the…
