New Delhi: National Green Tribunal has disposed of an application over the alleged manufacturing of banned single use plastic (SUP) items by units operating in Bawana and Narela industrial areas.The tribunal bench, headed by chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, earlier sought a reply from Delhi Pollution Control Committee on the plea. DPCC had submitted that a…
New Delhi: Designed to serve as a high-speed link from DND Flyway to Sohna and to the upcoming Noida International Airport in Jewar, a NH-148A corridor has entered its final phase. Officials said the project was expected to be completed in the next four months. “It will provide a crucial alternative to overloaded national routes…
New Delhi: A Dubai-based individual, believed to be the mastermind of one of India’s largest cocaine rings, Pawan Thakur, will be deported to India soon. Sources said that Thakur was detained in Dubai last week.Thakur is allegedly behind the smuggling of a massive 82kg cocaine consignment, which was intercepted and seized in Delhi in Nov…
New Delhi: The iconic Red Fort will remain closed to the public from Dec 5 to 14 to facilitate preparations for a major UNESCO event, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) announced on Friday.In a fresh order, the ASI partially modified its earlier notification issued on Nov 19, which proposed closing the monument from Dec…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has convicted Sonu Ghugru, a member of the Hitender Chhotu gang, of shooting at a police officer during a raid in 2016, observing that the prosecution proved his guilt beyond reasonable doubt.Additional sessions judge Virender Kumar Kharta delivered the verdict on Nov 18, relying on testimonies of police personnel to…
Pema Wang Thongdok (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Pema Wang Thongdok has hit back at online trolls after facing alleged harassment by Chinese authorities at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport, using the incident to call for national unity.Thongdok, who was travelling from London to Japan with a transit stop in Shanghai on 21 November, said immigration officials…
Illicit liquor, intended for the upcoming MCD byelection, was seized from a vehicle near Okhla Mod. Police recovered 108 bottles of whisky, with investigations pointing towards the involvement of AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal. The vehicle is registered to a sitting AAP councilor, and the driver is the brother-in-law of a contestant. NEW DELHI: Ahead of…
New Delhi: A 40-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on Tuesday evening. The police have recovered a suicide note and have initiated an inquest to probe the case.The deceased, Deepti Chaurasia, belonged to a well known business group. According to police, she was the daughter-in-law of the owner of a…
Delhi emerges as India’s most polluted region, with PM2.5 levels a staggering 20 times the WHO guideline NEW DELHI: Delhi is the most polluted of all states and Union territories in India, according to a new satellite-based assessment released by Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). The capital recorded an annual population-weighted…
New Delhi: As capital’s pollution levels spike and GRAP restrictions tighten, the biggest violators of the Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUCC) rules are not cars, trucks or commercial vehicles — but the city’s everyday two-wheelers, according to Delhi Traffic Police. Since the implementation of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) on Oct 14, authorities have…
