New Delhi anticipates a sunny October 17, 2025, with highs near 33°C, perfect for outdoor plans despite yesterday’s ‘very poor’ air quality (AQI 253) potentially lingering. Clear skies and gentle breezes promise a refreshing day. While pollution concerns remain, especially in traffic, the week ahead looks consistently sunny with improving air quality trends, making it…
New Delhi: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya was felicitated on Thursday at Hindu College, where she had finished her undergraduate studies, but Delhi University could not confer on her the honorary doctorate it had planned to. The decision to honour Amarasuriya was approved by DU‘s executive council in an emergency meeting in Sept after…
As Nov rolls in, the grand combo of wedding season, back-to-back festivals and year-end madness follows. The city’s glowing, markets are buzzing and the vibe is unmistakably festive. But as the sparkle spreads, so does the same old story— longer drives, crowded lanes and that collective “patience test” we all know too well. It’s that…
New Delhi: PWD minister Parvesh Verma has written to all 70 Delhi MLAs and traffic police urging them to identify vehicular choke points across the city and submit within 15 days a list of projects that need to be prioritised before the department begins infrastructure planning for the next financial year.PWD has already received at…
New Delhi: A 13-year-old boy on a cycle was allegedly run over twice by a Mahindra Thar in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Kunj on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses claimed that the SUV driver, yet to be identified, first hit and crushed the child and then reversed over him before fleeing. The boy was declared dead on arrival at…
New Delhi: The city’s new winter action plan, which has partially kicked in, targets the paving of 698 km of roadside areas and greening of 85 km of central verges.The plan has provisions for 578 teams for checking vehicle pollution and 443 teams for curbing waste burning. Mechanised road sweeping and installation of anti-smog guns…
New Delhi: The city will host 30 musical and cultural events on a “global scale” in the next 80 days as it gears up to position itself as the country’s “creative capital” and an events hub, CM Rekha Gupta said on Thursday.This bid to boost Delhi’s art, culture and events ecosystem will see renowned artists,…
New Delhi: The minimum temperature continued to dip across Delhi-NCR on Thursday while the air quality deteriorated further, engulfing the region in a light haze.At 245, the city recorded its worst air quality index of the season against 233 on Wednesday, marking the third straight poor air day. In the neighbouring Ghaziabad, AQI has already…
New Delhi: A 66-year-old businessman was brutally assaulted in an alleged incident of road rage in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh on Wednesday afternoon. Police registered a case of attempted murder in connection with the attack. No arrest was made till Thursday night. The elderly man is in hospital.The incident took place around 1.40pm when Parveen…
New Delhi: Delhi University Students’ Union joint secretary Deepika Jha allegedly slapped a teacher of BR Ambedkar College in the staffroom on Thursday at a time police personnel were present there. Jha, who is affiliated to ABVP, defended her action and said the teacher, who is the convenor of the college’s disciplinary committee, stared at…
