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Accused Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati NEW DELHI: Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, the self-proclaimed spiritual leader on the run after allegations of sexual abuse came to light at a private city institute, is no stranger to controversy. Saraswati, initially known as Swami Parthasarathy alias Swami Dr Parthasarathy, was living at Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management for nearly…

New Delhi: At IIT Delhi’s Research & Innovation Park, the 5th-anniversary exhibition of the I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC) on Wednesday offered a panoramic glimpse into India’s deep-tech future. As the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) of IIT Delhi, IHFC brought 25 cutting-edge technologies under one roof, spanning the entire innovation journey from pre-seed mentoring to…

New Delhi: The forest and wildlife department has issued an SOP on the morphological ridge, asking land owning agencies to check the E-Van Lekh portal to ascertain if their projects fall in the area or not. Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa has said the SOP clarifies the boundary of the morphological ridge.The morphological ridge…

New Delhi: Delhi may have got a drainage master plan at long last. But financing the overhaul of this urban infrastructure will surely test the capacity of the state govt. As govt officials will readily admit, the sheer size of the project, especially when it coincides with existing pressures on the state budget, makes it…

New Delhi: The southwest monsoon retreated from the city on Wednesday, a day before its normal withdrawal date. It was the earliest withdrawal of the monsoon since 2002 when it left Delhi on Sept 20.This monsoon, Safdarjung, the city’s base station, logged 41% excess rainfall at 902.6mm against the normal 640.4mm. However, Delhi as a…

New Delhi: Former JNU student Umar Khalid submitted on Wednesday that courts had found “fabrication of evidence” in 17 cases related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots. Senior advocate Trideep Pais made the submission while appearing before additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai to oppose the framing of charges against Khalid in the larger conspiracy case…

New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday announced that Union home minister Amit Shah would inaugurate 46 projects aimed at the revival of the Yamuna on Sept 30. The projects will cost over Rs 4,000 crore. Delhi Jal Board is gearing up for the grand inauguration of its biggest 124 million gallons per day…

New Delhi: Delhi Police’s special cell has busted an illegal cartridge manufacturing factory in Moradabad allegedly supplying bullets to criminals of Delhi, UP and Haryana. Three suspected suppliers have been arrested while the hunt is on for others.Additional commissioner Pramod Kushwaha said the factory only prepared ammunition and was discovered near the residence of one…

NEW DELHI: Delhi govt has permitted the use of loudspeakers until midnight instead of 10pm for Ramlila and Durga Puja celebrations with CM Rekha Gupta arguing that Hindu festivals “face difficulties due to restricted timings for use of loudspeakers”. The relaxation, in force till Oct 3, comes even as 20 of 26 noise monitoring stations…