City saw isolated heatwave condition on Sunday New Delhi: A day after negligible improvement, the city saw isolated heatwave conditions on Sunday. A rainy respite could come on Friday, though.By late Sunday evening, some areas saw a dust intrusion from Pakistan, which came via Rajasthan and Haryana, Met officials said. This may impact the air…
New Delhi: Delhi govt on Sunday approved a series of water management and sewage infrastructure projects worth over Rs 1,000 crore as part of its broader push for Yamuna rejuvenation and for improving civic infrastructure in the capital.Announcing the decisions, chief minister Rekha Gupta said her govt was working in “mission mode” to make Delhi…
New Delhi: Electricity connections are being provided to 36 households in north-east Delhi’s Harsh Vihar after a wait of nearly eight years after the intervention of chief minister Rekha Gupta, officials said on Sunday.The families met the chief minister at her residence and thanked her for ending their long wait. North-East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari…
New Delhi: Just two days after being hired by a family without police verification, a domestic worker drugged a mother and son in their flat at a housing society in northwest Delhi’s Rohini and stole her gold jewellery.The incident took place on May 18 at Surya Apartments in Sector 13, where the woman, a 34-year-old…
New Delhi: A 28-year-old gardener, who appeared unassuming and blended seamlessly into South Delhi’s upscale residential colonies, allegedly led a covert double life as a serial housebreaker, quietly conducting recces of locked homes before striking with housebreaking tools.His alleged crime trail came to light after a burglary on May 20 at the residence of a…
New Delhi: Barely hours after US secretary of state Marco Rubio landed in Delhi on Saturday, the capital’s IGI Airport again became the target of GPS spoofing.About 10 to 12 aircraft nearing the airport on Saturday evening and night reported the menace, seen on this scale after a few months. Govt agencies are probing the…
New Delhi: Hip replacement surgeries among Indians in their 30s and 40s have risen by nearly 40% in the post-Covid period, with doctors linking the surge to steroid-related bone damage and delayed diagnosis of avascular necrosis (AVN), a painful condition that destroys the hip joint.May is observed as Arthritis Awareness Month, and orthopaedic experts at…
New Delhi: Police have busted an illegal Chinese manjha godown and arrested two men for allegedly selling the banned synthetic kite string. A total of 2,040 rolls of manjha have been seized from the godown in southwest Delhi’s Uttam Nagar.Police had received a tip-off about the illegal storage of manjha, after which a raid was…
New Delhi: Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday emphatically rejected suggestions that tribal traditions were distinct from Hindu practices, a point made by ideological rivals of BJP and RSS, and made it clear that Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will impose no curbs on the way of life of tribal communities.Addressing ‘Janjati Sanskritik Samagam’, which saw…
New Delhi: Delhi Traffic Police registered 1,170 FIRs, impounded 1,179 vehicles and issued 12,568 challans during a two-day special enforcement drive against wrong-side driving conducted across the capital on May 22 and 23.The crackdown was carried out on major roads, intersections, highways, vulnerable stretches and accident-prone locations across the city.“Wrong-side driving has emerged as a…
