New Delhi: Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has found substantial quantities of refuse-derived fuel (RDF), inert material, and construction and demolition (C&D) waste dumped at multiple locations along the boundary wall of NTPC Eco Park, around 2km from the Yamuna, in southeast Delhi’s Badarpur.Officials were informed that the agencies concerned had an agreement with NTPC…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has dismissed a PIL alleging that Election Commission’s house-to-house enumeration process for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls could disenfranchise homeless people, observing that a mechanism already exists for enrolling electors without a fixed address.A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said the petitioner’s apprehensions…
New Delhi: Following Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s demand for stricter sections in a case involving injuries allegedly sustained by a supporter during its protest at Jantar Mantar, Delhi Police Friday added provisions of the SC/ST Act to the existing FIR and lodged a Pocso case over alleged threats to his minor daughter.Holding a sit-in protest…
New Delhi: Having maintained that over 2,800 people with “criminal antecedents” were part of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest in July and were “identified” using a facial recognition system (FRS), Delhi Police’s own officers say the accuracy of the system is between 60% and 80%, and if an image that is captured is unclear,…
New Delhi: Heavy rain led to waterlogging at Indira Gandhi International Airport Friday, forcing passengers to wade through ankle-deep water near the arrival gates of Terminal 3.As a squall with a wind speed touching 76 kmph hit the airport, 11 flights bound for the capital were diverted to Jaipur, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad between 3.30…
New Delhi: Several roads near the airport, AIIMS, Connaught Place and Anand Vihar were inundated Friday, forcing many to wade through flooded stretches and traffic to crawl at several key points.The downpour once again exposed the capital’s drainage woes, with the airport corridor being among the worst affected stretches. Waterlogging was reported at Terminal 3…
New Delhi: A 35-year-old truck driver was killed after the Eicher truck he was driving rammed a dumper on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway in northeast Delhi’s Khajuri Khas early Friday, police said. The dumper driver fled the spot after the accident.The deceased was identified as Anshul, a resident of Jind, Haryana. Police received information about the…
New Delhi: A court has dismissed the interim bail plea of Flourish Stay owner Lokesh Bajaj, accused in the June 3 Malviya Nagar hotel fire that claimed 23 lives. The court rejected Bajaj’s plea for four weeks’ bail on the ground of his deteriorating health.Principal district and sessions judge Samar Vishal said there was no…
New Delhi: Two men, including the son of a Delhi Police personnel, were allegedly assaulted and abducted by a group travelling in three vehicles near Shiv Shankar Chowk in Wazirpur village. A case has been registered.Police said a PCR call was received on Sept 3. Complainant Udit Kumar, 26, told police that he and his…
New Delhi: Family members of 42-year-old property dealer Pramod Dahiya, who was shot dead outside a gym in Narela on Thursday, staged a sit-in and blocked the road on Friday.Around 12.30 pm, Dahiya’s family members, along with acquaintances and hundreds of people from Nahri village, gathered on the Narela-Lampur Road to protest the killing. The…
