New Delhi: With monsoon approaching, Delhi govt Sunday undertook a special drive to repair over 2,000 identified potholes across the city.Engineers, field staff and maintenance teams were deployed to repair identified potholes on priority before the onset of heavy rains.PWD minister Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma inspected repair works at multiple locations.According to the departmental records,…
New Delhi: Multiple vehicles got disbalanced, including an e-tempo overturned, while trying to avoid a truck in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh flyover late Saturday night. One man suffered injuries in the incident, police said.A PCR call was received about the road accident around 11.18 pm. Upon reaching the spot, cops discovered that the e-tempo, driven…
New Delhi: Police have found a curved khukri-like knife that Dr Manish Gupta allegedly used to slit the throat of his domestic help, Meena, at his south Delhi residence on June 19.The weapon was part of a collection of similar knives that the dermatologist had accumulated at his Mount Kailash home over the years from…
New Delhi: The investigation into the inter-state newborn trafficking racket busted by Delhi Police last week has hit a roadblock, with several suspected biological parents of trafficked infants and key intermediaries becoming untraceable after news of the crackdown surfaced.Police teams probing the case had recently reached Rajasthan’s Mount Abu region, where investigators were hoping to…
New Delhi: Kicking off preparations for the upcoming Kanwar Yatra and Independence Day celebrations, senior police officers from Delhi, Ghaziabad and Noida held an inter-state coordination meeting to fine-tune security, traffic and law-and-order arrangements.The meeting brought together senior officers from Delhi Police including Joint Commissioner of Police (Eastern Range) Ajit Kumar Singla, Ghaziabad Police, Noida…
New Delhi: Three people have been arrested and two minors have been apprehended in connection with the death of a 32-year-old Delhi Metro security guard, who was allegedly assaulted by a group of passengers at Shahdara railway station on Saturday.The suspects, Sagar, Prince and Akash, were later granted bail, police said. The two boys, both…
New Delhi: Amid the relentless humidity of a Delhi morning, a woman battling liver cancer and kidney failure sat on the dusty pavement at Jantar Mantar, wrapped in a dark shawl and holding a clear medical drainage bag.She is Babitanjali Kar. Not a political worker or a local resident, but a mother who travelled over…
NEW DELHI: Several candidates were denied entry for arriving late at NEET-UG re-examination centres on Sunday, with traffic jams, documentation issues and entry-related disputes reported from different parts of the states.In Delhi, a student who missed the re-examination alleged that she reached the venue on time but was still not allowed to enter.The student said,…
NEW DELHI: For 25 years, Bhola Mehto, 45, has been earning a modest living at New Krishna Market. Last Tuesday, he says, his life was turned upside down when he was allegedly subjected to hours of torture, first in a police post and later in a police station, on suspicion of stealing a purse. Mehto…
NEW DELHI: With thalis in hand, members of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) continued their protest at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, demanding the resignation of union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.In a post on social media, CJP said, “With thalis in hand, cockroaches remain at Jantar Mantar, demanding the resignation of the incompetent education minister Dharmendra…
