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NEW DELHI: Delhi Traffic Police issued 868 challans for drunken driving on New Year’s Eve, officials said on Thursday.Special enforcement teams were deployed across major roads, nightlife areas and residential neighbourhoods to check for drunk driving, speeding, motorcycle stunts and other risky behaviour.Breathalyser tests were conducted at multiple checkpoints, with teams shifting locations to prevent…

New Delhi: Cab ride-sharing services may resume soon in NCR as Delhi govt has asked app-based aggregators to restart this service in a month and begin work on a citywide carpooling framework to reduce congestion and pollution.The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa. It was attended by…

New Delhi: A total of 137 police personnel were conferred with honorary ranks on the day of their retirement during a ceremonial event held at the Delhi Police headquarters on Wednesday.The retiring personnel—ranging from the rank of constable to sub-inspector—were awarded badges of their next higher honorary rank in front of their family members. The…

NEW DELHI: When 75-year-old Ghulam Qadir Burki, a retired gemstone businessman and dementia patient from Srinagar, went missing in south Delhi, his family’s lives came to a standstill.For 26 days, every phone call sparked hope, every night ended in despair, and the question of whether he was even alive loomed painfully over them. What followed…

NEW DELHI: Delhi woke up under a thick blanket of fog on Thursday, with visibility plunging across large parts of the city and the National Capital Region (NCR) as air quality stayed in the ‘very poor’ category. The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 372 at 7am, according to data from the Central Pollution…

New Delhi: The record-breaking vehicle sales in the city in 2025 come with a warning — the growth is overwhelmingly driven by private vehicles, not public or shared transport.Of the 8,16,051 new registrations, around 7.2 lakh were private vehicles, highlighting that most buyers added personal vehicles rather than choosing public transport. About 75% of these…

New Delhi: Nearly 700 undergraduate and postgraduate aspirants who took admission to Delhi University through the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) this year later cancelled their seats, official data shows. It highlights an annual pattern in the admission cycle where withdrawals add to the large number of vacancies at the end of the process. Delhi…

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea by an alleged gangster claiming that he was coerced to sign documents, including a confession, in jail by police.Recently, the court was hearing a plea by Saleem Ahmed, an accused under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), arrested in a case linked to gangster Hashim…

New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia is set to construct ‘Walls of Democracy’ outside all its eight entrances to curb defacement of university walls. The designated walls will be the only permitted spaces for putting up posters, notices, or displaying protest-related material, for which a tender has been issued. The construction work is expected to be…

New Delhi: A 72-year-old woman died of suffocation after a fire broke out in her house in Jamia Nagar, south-east Delhi, on Wednesday, police said.Police got a call regarding the fire at Shaheen Bagh police station around 4.41 am. Delhi Headlines Today — The Biggest Updates You Need to Know. Police found the house engulfed…