NEW DELHI: A chilling video of Delhi’s car bomber Umar Un Nabi surfaced on Tuesday, attempting to justify suicide attacks by calling them as “martyrdom operations”.Sources said the video was found in Umar’s phone, which he had left back home in Pulwama. Umar’s brother, who had earlier tried to dispose of the handset initially in…
New Delhi: Mehani, a 25-year-old research scholar, stood at Jantar Mantar coughing vigorously while clutching on to a poster that read, “I am here for my children.” Around her, hundreds of Delhiites gathered — some wearing biohazard masks and others carrying oxygen cylinders — trying to symbolically convey what it now means to inhale the…
New Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council’s much-awaited science park at Tughlaq Crescent Road is finally ready, ending a year-long delay and setting the stage for its inauguration in mid-Dec with visits by school students.Proposed in the 2022-23 NDMC budget, the park is located inside the council’s Science and Humanities Centre. It has been envisioned as…
New Delhi: Various defence and police apparatus, including drones, missiles, gear for law enforcement officers, forensic tools and hardware to trace cybercriminals, were on display at the 44th India International Trade Fair (IITF) on Tuesday.Five-year-old twins Ved and Vaasu posed eagerly next to a rocket model as their father, Ashish Panwar (39), clicked a photo….
New Delhi: In a push to revive the heavily polluted Yamuna, Delhi govt is setting the stage for a Yamuna Rejuvenation Kosh, a fund and institutional mechanism aimed at accelerating cleanup, ecological restoration and public participation in the river’s revival.Govt sources said that a proposal to set up the mechanism has been passed by Delhi…
New Delhi: Three court complexes — Dwarka, Saket and Patiala House — received bomb threats on Tuesday, triggering security checks and evacuation. The threats sent by email at around 9am to Delhi Police and security agencies were later declared hoaxes. It was claimed explosive devices had been “strategically planted” in all three complexes. Bomb disposal…
New Delhi: With the air quality swinging between very poor and severe for over a month, Delhi seems to have plunged into a public health emergency. Doctors have warned that pollution levels are causing damage from “before birth to the end of life”, with a sharp surge in the number of children coming in with…
2 more succumb to injuries, blast toll goes up to 15 NEW DELHI: Two more victims of the Red Fort blast have succumbed to injuries, raising the death toll to 15 a week after the explosion.The deceased are 50-year-old Vinay Pathak and 73-year-old Mohammad Luqman. Calm And Radical: Dr Umar’s Pre-Blast Video Exposes Educated New…
NEW DELHI: Intensifying its probe into the Red Fort suicide bombing, NIA on Monday arrested another Kashmiri resident in the case and revealed that the module was planning to carry out Hamas-style terror attacks using drones. The Jaish module was also in the process of making small rockets that were to be used in the…
Yamuna River’s froth has returned post-Chhath Puja, signaling pollution after temporary relief from increased upstream flow. NEW DELHI: The froth has resurfaced in the Yamuna after a disappearance in the run-up to Chhath Puja. The river’s flow was increased from the upstream Hathnikund barrage during Chhath in Oct, and temporarily it appeared cleaner. This was…
