New Delhi: A traffic police officer averted a major accident and saved a woman’s life in north Delhi’s Azadpur Chowk on Thursday, while also taking strict action against a truck driver for multiple violations.The incident occurred around 4.27pm when the traffic inspector of Model Town Circle was leading a team during a special drive against…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has held that a husband’s income tax returns constitute “personal information” and are exempt from disclosure under the Right to Information Act, 2005 unless a larger public interest justifies such disclosure.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav set aside an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) directing that the details be shared…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) ambitious plan to set up a waste-to-energy plant at Narela-Bawana continues to encounter setbacks, with a fresh hurdle now threatening to push the timeline further.Despite getting an allocation of Rs 26.4 crore for the shifting of 400kV transmission lines and initiating preliminary groundwork at the site, the work…
New Delhi: Weeks into the new academic session, the absence of textbooks in several Delhi schools has forced teachers to improvise daily, redesigning lessons at short notice to keep classes running and prevent learning gaps.While private schools have managed the transition with relative ease, govt schools are grappling with limited resources and uneven access to…
New Delhi: A pall of gloom descended on west Delhi’s Khajan Basti on Friday as the locality mourned the loss of three members of a single family after a cruise boat sank in a dam on the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur on Thursday.Three generations — 39-year-old Marina, her young son Trishan (4) and her…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta and lieutenant governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Friday completed their self-enumeration, marking the launch of the self-enumeration phase of Census 2027 across 250 municipal wards of the city.Senior officials overseeing census operations visited the residences of the CM and the LG as they filled in their details.“Today, I entered…
NEW DELHI: The truck that fatally hit two cousins on Ashoka Road in central Delhi had been granted “special permission” by Delhi Traffic Police to operate before no-entry hours for the collection of horticultural waste in the area. Such permissions are processed and approved by the DTP headquarters in west Delhi’s Todapur, a senior police…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has directed the joint commissioner of police (transport range) to conduct a fresh investigation into the disappearance of two community dogs from IGI Airport, describing the earlier police inquiry as “inadequate” and lacking “serious efforts”.The case relates to ‘Kaddu’ and ‘Brownie’, two community dogs that have remained untraceable for over…
New Delhi: More than 23,000 industries operating in 17 industrial areas are covered by 13 common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) in Delhi. While two CETPs in Narela and Bawana were upgraded in 2024, the remaining 11 are operating close to their assumed lifespan of 20 years, the Confederation of Delhi Industries and CETP Societies has…
– People uses water during the hot day New Delhi: The city is likely to receive more spells of light showers from Sunday to Friday with gusty winds of over 50kmph, keeping daytime temperatures below normal and extreme heat at bay.On Friday, the city saw clear skies, yet the temperatures were below normal as an…
