NEW DELHI: A 76-year-old man was killed after a black SUV allegedly skidded and hit him on the service road of NH-24 in east Delhi’s Ghazipur village on Saturday morning.The deceased, identified as Paik Karmai, was a resident of Ghazipur village and worked at the Ghazipur flower mandi. A native of West Bengal, he was…
New Delhi: To promote waste segregation at source among residents, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is likely to soon implement an alternate-day collection system across all wards.Under the proposed plan, wet waste would be collected on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, while dry waste will be picked up on the rest of the days of…
New Delhi: Expressing concern about the rise in cases where gangs and hardened criminals deploy children to carry out crimes, Delhi High Court dismissed an anticipatory bail plea. The high court said such criminals were using children as a “weapon” to escape penal action and refused to grant anticipatory bail to a woman accused of…
NEW DELHI: A scuffle between rival student groups at the Arts Faculty of Delhi University on Friday triggered allegations of assault and counter-claims of violence, with both sides accusing each other of intimidation and misconduct.In a statement, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) alleged that a woman journalist associated with a YouTube channel was attacked…
New Delhi: The Badarpur police station in the South-East district has been ranked the capital’s top-performing police station for the year by Delhi Police. Shahdara police station placed second, while Bara Hindu Rao police station in the North district ranked third. The awards will be presented during the Raising Day Parade on Feb 16. Badarpur’s…
New Delhi: Police probing the triple murder case in Peeragarhi said arrested occultist Kamruddin was suspected to be involved in at least eight murders.According to police, the occultist arrested for allegedly poisoning and killing Randhir (76), Shiv Naresh (42) and Laxmi (40), whose bodies were found in an abandoned car near the Peeragarhi flyover on…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Friday approved a budget of approximately Rs 17,583 crore for the 2026-27 financial year, which leader of the house Pravesh Wahi described as the largest in the civic body’s history.Presenting the revised budget estimates for 2025-26 and the budget estimates for 2026-27 in the house, Wahi addressed…
New Delhi: A 20-year-old woman narrowly escaped death after allegedly jumping from a fourth-floor hotel window in northeast Delhi’s Farsh Bazar on Friday afternoon, with her life saved by the quick thinking of a local shop employee, police said.According to police, the woman had checked into the hotel earlier in the day with a 22-year-old…
New Delhi: For years, Rohini’s Asha Kiran, one of Delhi’s largest shelter homes for people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, was grossly overcrowded. Wards routinely exceeded their capacities and residents were forced to share mattresses. Frequent deaths were not unheard of — many due to illnesses linked to poor living conditions. Following years of public…
New Delhi: The vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University now has complete control over on-campus accommodation for faculty after the rules were amended to remove the existing cap on the VC’s discretionary quota. The move means the VC gets the final say on who gets to stay on the campus in the residential university. The changes…
