New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered cases after complaints from 18 banks that nearly 11,000 counterfeit currency notes, valued at Rs 34 lakh, were deposited with them. The cases were registered on Dec 31 last year, and the notes were recovered during the period from Jan 1 to June 30. Delhi Headlines Today — The…
New Delhi: University of Delhi has invited nominations for Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma (former President of India) gold medal, which will be awarded at the upcoming annual convocation, scheduled in Feb. The medal is awarded annually to a student adjudged best for general proficiency, considering character, academic excellence, extracurricular achievements, and social service. The awardee…
New Delhi: As classrooms across Delhi prepare for the new academic cycle, the city’s education department has fanned out hundreds of surveyors into lanes, labour clusters and informal settlements to answer a critical question: Which children are still missing from school? In a renewed push to bridge learning gaps, Delhi govt has launched a 15-day…
New Delhi: Free electricity and water as well as unlimited free public bus rides for women, among other schemes, account for around 35% of Delhi govt’s budgetary expenditure, according to an analysis of the govt’s budgetary transactions prepared by the directorate of economics and statistics.The report, which provides a clear picture of govt activities, expenditure…
New Delhi: A 60-year-old retired govt employee was injured in his head and legs after being allegedly hit by a speeding bike coming from the wrong side in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Vihar last week. The biker has been apprehended. The injured man is a resident of Najafgarh area of southwest Delhi. The incident took place…
New Delhi: A 25-year-old man was killed after he was allegedly beaten by a group of people on suspicion of theft in South Extension Part-II. The incident took place on Thursday night.Police received information at 10.30 am about a body lying near the wall of an under-construction site in the south Delhi area. On reaching…
NEW DELHI: In a major crackdown on visa and passport fraud, the IGI Airport unit of Delhi Police arrested over 130 people in 2025, including travel agents and facilitators involved in illegal immigration, officials said on Friday. According to a press release issued by the IGI Airport Police, the operation marked a significant change in…
New Delhi: Two senior residents of Vasant Kunj, aged 70 and 65 years, were allegedly cheated of over Rs 1.5 crore after being lured by scammers who posed as representatives of a reputed financial institution and promised them unusually high returns on their investments. The cheats approached the two elderly residents, who are also relatives,…
NEW DELHI: The New Year evening was streaked with blood with three almost back-to-back stabbings leaving an equal number of people dead in Delhi.Bihari Lal, 50, was fatally attacked by a group of juveniles in northwest Delhi’s Lal Bagh area after he asked them to stop shouting and playing loud music.A tailor by profession, Lal…
Apathy doesn’t have a time stamp. Your lungs do. In November 2024, TOI highlighted how a new dust bowl had emerged at Khyber Pass near Delhi University in north Delhi. Though authorities had razed several illegal structures in August that year, the area continues to resemble a ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape as the city steps into…
