New Delhi: Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday chaired a review meeting to assess preparations for the launch of Dust Portal 2.0, scheduled to go live in the coming week.The system is expected to enable real-time action against sites that violate dust-control norms or generate pollution levels beyond prescribed limits. Delhi govt had…
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal has issued notices to MCD and DJB over alleged encroachment on a waterbody in north Delhi’s Sannoth village, where a sewage treatment plant (STP) and a garbage collection point (dhalao) have been set up.The tribunal was hearing a plea filed by a local about the alleged encroachment of the village…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has apprehended a juvenile accused of setting a vehicle on fire after its owner refused to lend it to him in northwest Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar.According to police, during routine social media monitoring they came across posts, videos and status updates in which the teenager was allegedly seen brandishing firearms and glorifying…
New Delhi: In a suspected hit-and-run case, a 40-year-old pedestrian was killed after being allegedly struck by a car in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden early on Friday. Police have arrested the accused driver, a Delhi University BBA student, and said he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.According to police,…
New Delhi: LG Taranjit Singh Sandhu has constituted a three-member selection committee for the appointment of the chairperson and two members of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC).One of the key tasks before the power regulator is the initiation of a process for the liquidation of nearly Rs 38,500 crore in regulatory assets (RA), which have…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a man accused in a dowry harassment and criminal breach of trust case, observing that it was a “classic” case where the accused married the complainant in 2019, left for the UK shortly thereafter, and never took her back.Additional sessions judge Sheetal Chaudhary…
New Delhi: The postmortem examinations of the two elderly women—both in their 80s — who were found dead at their residence in central Delhi’s Rajendra Nagar were conducted on Friday.Police sources said it is suspected that Saroj Bala may have died after a fall. Chandra Kanta, meanwhile, had a pacemaker implanted and was largely dependent…
New Delhi: A half-kilometre stretch in east Delhi’s Geeta Colony has remained dug up for over 10 days after a road construction project being carried out by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was allegedly abandoned midway, forcing locals and commuters to perilously navigate mounds of rubble and broken concrete every day and also battle severe…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday listed the Shraddha Walkar murder case for day-to-day hearing from July 20, in a bid to expedite the trial proceedings.A food blogger from Mumbai, Aftab Amin Poonawala, is facing trial for allegedly murdering his live-in partner, Shraddha Walkar, at their flat in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area on May 18,…
Speeding car mows down pedestrian in Delhi’s Rajouri Garden NEW DELHI: A 40-year-old pedestrian was killed after being run over by a speeding car on Ring Road in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden area early Friday morning, police said.The accused driver was identified as 19-year-old Daksh Maurya, a resident of Shalimar Bagh in northwest Delhi, according…
