Delhi

NEW DELHI : In general, groundwater quality across most parts of India is considered “good to excellent” with 100% water samples in certain states and UTs, such as Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya and J&K, meeting BIS standards, whereas Rajasthan, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh face “widespread contamination” and certain others face “localised contamination challenges”, said Central…

New Delhi: Residents of B-1, Vasant Kunj, held a protest at Jantar Mantar on Sunday against the approval granted to a group housing project proposed on the Morphological Ridge.The project received clearance from the Supreme Court-appointed Centre Empowered Committee, along with NoCs from DDA, MCD, Airports Authority of India and Union Ministry of Environment, Forest…

New Delhi: Strong northwesterly winds gave Delhi a brief respite from very poor pollution levels, breaking a 24-day stretch of Air Quality Index (AQI) readings above 300. The city’s AQI stood at 279 in the poor category compared to 305 a day earlier. The cold winds also pushed temperatures down from 10.4 degrees Celsius on…

New Delhi: Constructed in 2024, the leachate treatment plant at Tehkhand has failed to function effectively to date, and Municipal Corporation of Delhi will now need to invest more to run it. Leachate is the liquid generated from natural decomposition of waste. For the scientific processing of lechate at landfills, MCD developed the leachate treatment…

New Delhi: A 21-year-old woman died and four, including a six-month-old girl, sustained injuries after an SUV hit a tree in outer Delhi’s Narela Industrial Area on Sunday morning. The deceased has been identified as Jyoti, a resident of Haryana’s Sonipat. Police had received information around 5.15am on Sunday about the incident. A total of…

New Delhi: A 52-year-old man was shot dead in south Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri on Sunday. The assailants fired more than a dozen rounds. The victim’s family alleged that the killing may have been carried out in revenge for a past murder involving the deceased’s son.The deceased was identified as Ratan, a resident of Aya Nagar…

New Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) constructed an underground tunnel at Pulbangash below the already operational Red Line of the Delhi Metro network. This tunnel was constructed as part of the upcoming Janakpuri West–RK Ashram Marg corridor, an extension of the Magenta Line. The tunnel was built between the Pulbangash and Sadar Bazar stations,…

New Delhi: A 55-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly strangling his 36-year-old wife to death after a misunderstanding in northeast Delhi’s Maujpur.Around 2 am on Sunday, police received information about an unconscious woman found inside her boutique in Maujpur. She was taken to a hospital, where she was declared brought dead. Her phone was…

New Delhi: The winter session of the Delhi legislative assembly is expected to begin in the third week of Dec, senior Delhi govt officials said.Sources said that the govt was preparing to table some long-pending Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports, which might trigger sharp exchanges between AAP and BJP. A heated debate is also…

New Delhi: A day before the MCD bypoll, senior AAP functionary and two-time MLA Rajesh Gupta on Saturday joined BJP, accusing AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal of “sidelining dedicated workers” and “creating a culture of use and throw”.Gupta joined BJP in the presence of its Delhi unit president, Virendra Sachdeva, Adarsh Nagar MLA Rajkumar Bhatia…