New Delhi: Former Tihar jail administrator and ex-law officer Sunil Gupta has challenged in Delhi High Court the provisions in the newly enacted criminal laws that allow prisoners to be kept in solitary confinement. Drawing on nearly four decades of experience at Tihar, Gupta has urged the court to implement the Supreme Court rulings and…
NEW DELHI: Three juveniles were apprehended after a scuffle erupted following an alleged eve-teasing incident involving two minor girls in northeast Delhi’s Farsh Bazar area on Saturday evening, police said. According to officials, a PCR call was received around 6 pm reporting eve-teasing and a brawl in the locality. A police team reached the spot…
NEW DELHI: Delhi continued to struggle with toxic air on Sunday, with several areas recording ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ air quality levels, as a dense layer of smog blanketed the city.The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi on Sunday reached 391, entering the ‘severe’ category, with some regions exceeding 400, according to the Central…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced on Saturday that two key restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP-4) will now be permanent, in a bid to tackle the city’s persistent severe air pollution. Speaking to the media, Sirsa said vehicles will not be provided petrol without a valid Pollution Under Control…
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Delhi Wetland Authority (DWA) to compile and circulate a comprehensive report format to all land-owning agencies for details of every waterbody under their control. The green watchdog is concerned about the fast disappearance of wetlands and waterbodies in the capital.The tribunal bench, headed by chairperson Justice Prakash…
NEW DELHI: “Cybercrime has no geographical boundaries, it thrives on online anonymity where a scammer can claim to be operating locally from Patparganj while actually being based abroad,” said special commissioner of police Devesh Chandra Srivastava during his address at the TOI Townhall on ‘Don’t Get Scammed’.This striking reality served as a wake-up call as…
New Delhi: When cyber law expert Pavan Duggal asked the audience at a TOI Townhall on Saturday that who had lost money online, one hand went up after the other. The advocate assured them that they were not alone. He shared real cases, including that of a 72-year-old man, a director of a company, who…
New Delhi: The Gole Market Museum project is going to miss another deadline, with New Delhi Municipal Council shifting its completion date to May 2026 instead of March. “The implementation of GRAP stages 3 and 4 norms due to pollution affected progress and the work is at a standstill,” an official said.According to officials, close…
New Delhi: A woman was arrested, and heroin along with drug-related paraphernalia was seized in north west Delhi. The incident took place on Dec 25, when a police patrol team was conducting routine checks near Rain Basera Park along the Nangloi–Sultanpuri Road. “The team noticed a woman standing amid a small crowd while carrying a…
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday removed protesters, including activist Yogita Bhayana and Congress leader Mumtaz Patel, who were staging a sit-in near the Parliament complex against the suspension of the life sentence of Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar. Police said the protesters reached the area around 4 pm, sat on the road, and…
