New Delhi: The impact of a western disturbance continued to raise the minimum temperature as Delhi’s air quality improved further. The minimum temperature stood at 10°C, which is about normal for this time of the year. It was 9.2°C on Tuesday, 8.7°C on Monday, and 8°C on Sunday.Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) was at 266…
New Delhi: In a bid to curb one of the capital’s key dust sources, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has ordered the removal of all unauthorised roadside vendors selling or storing construction materials, officials said. In its Dec 9 order, DPCC said it was exercising its powers under Section 31(A) of the Air (Prevention and…
New Delhi: The father of 16-year-old Shourya Patil, who died by suicide last month, met Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday seeking action against the teachers and school authorities named in his son’s suicide note. After the meeting, Shourya’s father said, “We requested the CM for an update on the case and demanded strict…
New Delhi: Several schools across the city received hoax bomb threat emails on Wednesday, prompting swift action by police and emergency services. Police confirmed that Delhi Public School, RK Puram; Ahlcon Public School, Mayur Vihar; Lovely Public School, Laxmi Nagar; Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri; Modern School, Barakhamba Road and The Indian School, Sadiq Nagar were among…
New Delhi: A 76-year-old sexual offender who was on the run after jumping his parole in 2021 has been arrested. He had assaulted a 13-year-old girl in 2015 and had been convicted to life imprisonment in 2018.The accused, identified as Wahid Khan, is a resident of east Delhi’s Trilok Puri and originally from Agra, Uttar…
New Delhi: Four people have been arrested for duping a man of Rs 16 lakh in an investment scam. The men were identified as Manish Dilip Bhai Koshti (37), Mohammad Zaid A. Sidi (28), Mohammad Aezaz Khimani (35), and Shaikh Abrar (27), all residents of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The complainant, a resident of Palam Colony, reported…
NEW DELHI: This was not a case of international espionage or organised cybercrime; it was a deeply personal feud that metastasised into a national security scare. The motive was as old as time, but the method was chillingly modern.The Delhi crime branch recently cracked a multi-city cyber threat case where the targets were the commissioners…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to 10 of the 12 accused in the Kartavya Path case, observing that “nothing has been discovered against the accused related to the membership of radical organisations linked to Naxalites,” even 15 days after their arrest for allegedly raising pro-Naxalite slogans during a protest at India…
NEW DELHI: Multiple schools in Delhi received bomb threat emails on Wednesday, prompting police to launch an investigation.The schools issued notices to parents requesting them to collect their children in a phased manner to prevent panic, while authorities launched investigations into the threats, according to news agency ANI.The Indian School sent a detailed notice to…
NEW DELHI: Multiple schools including the Indian School in south Delhi’s Sadiq Nagar and another private school in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar received hoax bomb threats on Wednesday.Delhi Fire Services received information about a hoax bomb call at Lovely Public School in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar at 10.39am. “Standard procedure was followed and a fire…
