India has rolled out a nationwide mobile disaster communication system, with users across the country receiving test alerts on their phones during the trial phase NEW DELHI: India has stepped up efforts to strengthen its disaster preparedness system, with the government rolling out nationwide testing of a mobile-based emergency alert mechanism that has already reached…
New Delhi: If The Eagles had ever spent a night outside an ICU of a Delhi private hospital, “Hotel California” might have gone like this: “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave… the waiting area”.Because the longest nights in these hospitals are not just endured by patients, they are…
New Delhi: In the narrow lanes of Jahangirpuri, a school dropout with a history of petty offences is being given a chance at reform as police step in as mentors to help him return to the classroom.The staff at Jahangir Puri police station — in a shift from the traditional role of enforcement — have…
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…
