MCD’s barrierless toll tender challenged in Delhi HC (File Photo) NEW DELHI: MCD’s tender for barrierless or MLFF toll collection has reached Delhi high court with two potential bidders filing petitions against the municipal body for “restrictive eligibility criteria” – experience of operating a minimum “50% of total toll lanes or 122 toll lanes under…
NEW DELHI: All four NCR states — Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan — are expected to notify the policy to waive off motor vehicle tax or road tax for buying new trucks and buses running on clean fuel after scrapping their old pre-BS-VI heavy commercial vehicles, a senior road transport ministry official said on…
New Delhi: An undertrial who allegedly faked a medical emergency to escape custody was apprehended by Delhi Police’s crime branch after 48 hours.Pawan Bhalla was initially arrested on June 15 during routine patrolling near Lal Flats in Sector 4, Rohini. During his personal search, police recovered a prohibited button-operated knife from the pocket of his…
New Delhi: A court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a jalebi vendor in 2014 following a dispute over his demand to be served ahead of other customers. It held that the prosecution had conclusively established his guilt through eyewitness testimony and ballistic evidence.Additional sessions judge Dhirendra Rana observed that the convict…
A shocking incident unfolded in Karkardooma, Delhi, where a 30-year-old woman was brutally stabbed to death by her husband while she slept (AI Image used for representational purpose only) NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband when she was asleep at a relative’s house in Karkardooma, east Delhi, on…
Delhi is undertaking a month-long special intensive revision of its electoral roll, with over 13,000 booth-level officers verifying nearly 1.5 crore electors door-to-door. (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Over 13,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) will fan out across the city from Tuesday to begin a month-long special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, covering nearly 1.5…
NEW DELHI: Delhi cabinet Monday rejected a proposal to extend incentives to hybrid vehicles, opting instead to keep the capital’s new electric vehicle policy focused exclusively on battery-powered or “pure EVs”.The newly approved Delhi EV Policy 2026 introduces a three-year lock-in period, barring beneficiaries of govt subsidies from registering their electric vehicles in other states…
New Delhi: At Pushta Road near Kailash Nagar, one of Delhi’s chronic traffic bottlenecks, the average monthly queue length has come down from 12.9 km during Sept to Nov last year to just 2.2 km between April and June this year — an 82.6% reduction, according to official data reviewed by Lieutenant Governor T S…
Vibha SharmaNew Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will adopt the multi-tier Aranya planting model during the monsoon for large-scale afforestation to enhance the city’s green cover.Under the model, planting is done in three ecological layers—canopy trees, understory vegetation, and shrubs. This will create dense, self-sustaining urban forests that closely resemble natural ecosystems.The approach is designed…
New Delhi: College of Vocational Studies (CVS), a Delhi University college established to impart skill-based education, has discontinued six of its seven undergraduate vocational programmes and replaced them with regular multidisciplinary degree combinations from the 2026-27 academic session, a move that has triggered objections from a section of teachers and students.The college has retained only…
