According to IMD data, this is the first time since 2021 that Delhi has witnessed the onset of the monsoon in July. NEW DELHI: After days of oppressive heat and humidity, the southwest monsoon finally reached the national capital on Thursday, arriving five days later than its normal onset date and marking Delhi’s first July…
New Delhi: A 20-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly strangulating her husband to death in front of his mother in east Delhi’s Rashid Market in the early hours of Thursday. The murder was committed in a fit of rage after he allegedly assaulted her over suspicion of her having an extramarital affair.The deceased has…
New Delhi: The special cell of Delhi Police has busted another ISI-backed terror-espionage cell and arrested four alleged operatives of Pak-based gangster-turned-terrorist Shehzad Bhatti. One of the accused had conducted the reconnaissance of police establishments in Delhi.According to police, the accused were found using foreign mobile phone numbers to operate their WhatsApp accounts, making it…
New Delhi: Delays in completion of civic projects are often attributed to financial constraints, pending approvals or procedural bottlenecks. While such explanations are all too familiar, what’s far more difficult to justify is not opening projects, which have already been completed, to the public.Across civic bodies in Delhi, several high-profile public facilities have remained non-operational…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has ordered a CAG audit of the three private power discoms over the accumulation of Rs 38,500-crore regulatory assets that are to be recovered from consumers. If undertaken, it will be the first CAG audit of the discoms since the privatisation of electricity distribution in Delhi in 2002.Comptroller and Auditor General…
New Delhi: Behind polite “namastes” and a high rent of Rs 15,000 — more than double what other tenants pay a month — a suspected synthetic drug lab used to operate out of a flat in a residential building in north Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar.Nearly three weeks after a Nigerian woman plunged to her death from…
New Delhi: A court Thursday dismissed CBI’s plea for further police custody of IPS officer Deepak Gehlawat in the Rs 3-crore bribery case linked to the alleged Rs 5,000-crore fake medicine manufacturing racket. The agency is “totally silent with regard to the steps taken in investigation” to ascertain the identity of the public servant whom…
New Delhi: Posing as an eligible bride in search of a husband and later going “missing”, 40-year-old Lalita allegedly got unsuspecting men into fake marriages before vanishing with their money. Police have arrested three people, including Lalita, her husband and another accomplice, Deepu.According to the police, the scam came to light after a missing-person report…
New Delhi: Police have arrested a Dwarka house help for allegedly making false allegations of rape against a man who had booked her through an app for house cleaning on June 30.At 1.22 pm on June 30, police got a PCR call. The woman who dialled 112 told the cops that she was assigned a…
New Delhi: Outside Shaheen Bagh’s Chand Masjid, the questions are no longer about protest sites or road blockades, but about booth-level officers (BLOs), enumeration forms and whether elderly parents have the documents they may need.Volunteers say the mosque will set up neighbourhood camps, this time not to mobilise a protest, but to help residents complete…
