New Delhi: Ahead of Independence Day, Delhi Police has launched a cybersecurity audit of nearly 1,000 CCTV cameras installed in and around Red Fort to ensure the surveillance network remains secure.The move comes after police busted a spying racket allegedly linked to Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti and ISI. CCTV cameras installed near sensitive security and…
New Delhi: A 30-year-old man was allegedly stabbed during an altercation over his brother having borrowed Rs 700, late Sunday night in northwest Delhi’s Begumpur. Three people, including the man who had lent the money, have been arrested.The deceased, Mukesh Yadav, a resident of Bharat Vihar, was allegedly stabbed on the road between Bharat Vihar…
New Delhi: An 88-year-old man’s stolen mobile phone helped Delhi Police unravel a pan-India cyberfraud syndicate that stole phones and used them to access bank accounts of their owners and siphon off money.The operation involved a network of phone thieves, suppliers of mule bank accounts and other financial instruments in Meerut and Ghaziabad, and a…
New Delhi: The family of 70-year-old Urmila Bhardwaj, who was crushed to death between vehicles in Narela last Saturday, has donated her eyes.The family said it wanted to give Urmila a meaningful farewell by helping restore the gift of sight to someone else. Her eyes were donated to an eye bank in Daryaganj, allowing the…
New Delhi: Delhi has recorded surplus rainfall for the first time this monsoon due to the ongoing wet patch.At 393.4mm, the city received 27% excess rainfall between June 1 and Aug 9, against a normal of 309.5mm. None of its districts is currently in the deficit rainfall category, while four are in the excess range.After…
New Delhi: Delhi govt Monday introduced a bill in the assembly seeking to advance the statutory cut-off date for recognising jhuggi jhopri (JJ) clusters by nearly two decades, a move that seeks to bring newer slum settlements within the ambit of rehabilitation and redevelopment schemes.The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (Amendment) Bill, 2026 tabled by…
New Delhi: Delhi may have several online govt services, but a World Bank assessment has exposed gaps in some of the capital’s most basic systems — from property records and registration to construction approvals and water-quality monitoring.A review meeting chaired by the chief secretary last month found zero or partial scores on several indicators under…
Individuals with diabetes were nearly four times more likely to have hypertension than those without it NEW DELHI: Adults above 40 should be routinely screened for both hypertension and diabetes as the chances of the two occurring together rise sharply as one ages, according to an Indian hospital-based study published in the journal, Diabetes &…
The judge found the allegations “strikingly similar”, made at the same time and at a common place, indicating “prior meticulous planning”. NEW DELHI: A court, which last week acquitted former BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for lack of evidence, held that the sexual harassment allegations against him…
New Delhi: After years of planning, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has finally started work for the complete restoration of Naini Lake in Model Town.The Rs 9.7-crore project, being carried out under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, will include laying of pipelines of 200m in diameter from Coronation Pillar sewage treatment…
