New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday opposed the bail pleas of the five main accused in the stone-throwing incident near Faiz-e-Ilahi Mosque, close to Turkman Gate, alleging that this was “not a simple case of assault, but an attack on the system.” It argued that the accused were aware of Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s anti-encroachment…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested a 48-year-old man from Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district for his alleged involvement in multiple cases of cheating and forgery linked to an organised bank fraud syndicate—nearly 18 years after he jumped bail and went absconding. The accused, Amit Nishchal, was nabbed from Manali, where he had been living under…
New Delhi: A fire was reported at the official residence of BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Mother Teresa Crescent Road in Chanakyapuri on Tuesday morning. Nobody was injured.The fire broke out in an outdoor room, possibly triggered by a short circuit and damaged some household items, Prasad wrote on X. “My wife, my son…
New Delhi: To address persistent waterlogging in low-lying areas and seepage in basements of buildings at pockets in Lutyens’ Delhi, Central Ground Water Board conducted an assessment of groundwater levels on behalf of New Delhi Municipal Council early last year. The subsurface study, which spanned 45 days, has revealed a significant rise in levels at…
New Delhi: Public Works Department has allocated Rs 5 crore to install Jersey barriers on several key congestion-prone stretches in west Delhi to curb accidents and regulate traffic movement.The precast reinforced cement concrete barriers are meant to physically separate traffic streams, discouraging dangerous practices such as wrong-side driving, illegal U-turns and abrupt lane changes —violations…
New Delhi: When a young mother reached the paediatric OPD at Lok Nayak Hospital with her one-year-old child suspected to be suffering from a congenital hearing disorder, doctors told her an MRI was critical and urgent. Without it, the child risked permanent hearing and speech loss. The window for intervention was narrow — ideally within…
NEW DELHI: Five minors, including a 12-year-old boy, have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a man and stealing his mobile phone and Rs 35,200 in cash in Sarojini Nagar, southwest Delhi, late on Saturday night. Police received a PCR call at around 3.52 am about a robbery near the Safdarjung–AIIMS flyover area. The victim told…
New Delhi is set for a bright, winter-sunny day on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, with comfortable afternoons and a noticeably cooler start and finish. Temperatures are expected to reach about 20.2°C after a morning low near 8.5°C, and no rain is anticipated. However, the primary concern remains air quality, as yesterday’s pollution was in the…
Lawrence Bishnoi (File Photo) NEW DELHI: In the murky underworld of global crime networks, the start of 2026 has been marked by a brazen display of force from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, signalling a high-octane offensive that has left law enforcement on two continents scrambling. While executing shootings and extortion in Delhi and Canada —…
NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old man died and a 29-year-old man was injured when their motorcycle fell into a ditch in southeast Delhi’s Jaitpur Pusta area, reportedly while being chased by dogs.According to police, the deceased, identified as Tushar Kumar, was a compounder at a local clinic from JJ Colony, Madanpur Khadar, Kalandi Kunj. The injured…
