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NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday clarified that the demolition drive at Madrasi Camp in Jangpura was carried out strictly in accordance with court orders, which had directed the slum’s removal four times to facilitate cleaning of the Barapulla drain and prevent future flooding.While talking to the reporters, CM Rekha said, “I…

NEW DELHI: A minor girl was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered in North East Delhi’s Dayalpur on Saturday. Police received a PCR call at 8.41pm regarding the incident in Nehru Vihar. Upon arrival, they found that the girl’s father had already taken her to the hospital, where she was declared dead. The attending doctors observed…

NEW DELHI: Ten friends from IIM Calcutta in 1979 and went on to make it big in life. Now in their 70s, they decided to have a reunion. Eight of them, with their spouses, and the rest two planned a visit to their dream destination – Croatia – and were supposed to leave India on…

NEW DELHI: The govt has approved shifting of Gurgaon’s Kherki Daula toll plaza on the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway (NH-48) to Pachgaon, a place beyond Manesar, paving the way for easy commute for lakhs of office goers.When the plaza is moved to Pachgaon, over 15 kms from Gurgaon, commuters travelling between Delhi and Manesar also won’t…

New Delhi: Education minister Ashish Sood on Saturday said Delhi govt would, for the first time, officially host International Yoga Day on June 21 by organising events at 11 different locations.Reviewing the preparations for the Yoga Day celebrations and the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0 campaign, the minister said the celebrations would be held…

New Delhi: Neelesh’s family was joyfully preparing for her wedding just five months away. On the afternoon of May 28, she left her Trilokpuri home, telling her 75-year-old father, Ahivaran Singh, that she was going to the bank to complete KYC formalities and withdraw money for the wedding. She never returned home.Neelesh was living with…

New Delhi: The underground tunnel between Maa Anandmayee Marg and Tughlaqabad railway colony station has been completed on the Tughlaqabad-Aerocity corridor of phase IV, also known as Golden Line. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through on Saturday morning at Tughlaqabad railway colony station after boring a 0.79km-long tunnel. This tunnel breakthrough was achieved using…

New Delhi: With the official date of the arrival of the monsoon in the city just three weeks away, Delhi’s civic agencies are facing a stiff challenge to complete the cleaning of its drainage system and keep it ready to face heavy showers.Data accessed by TOI revealed that Public Works Department managed to desilt nearly…

New Delhi: In the first seizure of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) this year, Delhi Police Special Cell recovered counterfeit notes with a face value of Rs 4 lakh. The high-quality fake notes, all in Rs 500 denomination, were smuggled into Delhi via Bangladesh. The courier was traced to Datia in Bihar.The accused was identified…

New Delhi: A man allegedly murdered a woman he was in a relationship with at his flat in east Delhi. He then packed her body in a suitcase, drove around Delhi and Uttar Pradesh before dumping it in Hapur district in the neighbouring state. Police inquiries revealed that the murder motive was a dispute over…