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New Delhi: Environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday launched a citywide “innovation challenge” to crowdsource affordable, ready-to-deploy technologies that can reduce PM2.5 and PM10 pollution from older vehicles, construction activity and industrial sources. The drive, launched under DPCC, seeks cost-effective, scalable and replicable technologies to reduce air, water and waste pollution. The minister said…

New Delhi/Shillong: A 27-year-old flight attendant from Meghalaya has alleged that she was recently subjected to verbal racial abuse twice within an hour in Delhi — once in north Delhi’s Kamla Nagar, then on the metro. Her video on Instagram, describing the alleged experience last week, drew widespread attention after Union minister Kiren Rijiju reposted…

New Delhi: Delhi govt will soon launch a series of programmes to promote tourism in the city that will include weekly nature walks, wildlife awareness events and purple buses for visits to popular sites.Tourism minister Kapil Mishra, speaking at Global Wildlife Fair-2025, said there was a need to establish Delhi as an eco-tourism hub in…

New Delhi: Delhi govt has directed the power distribution companies to conduct a feasibility study on replacing overhead electric wires with safer underground cables in prominent shopping and commercial areas. Govt has allotted Rs 100 crore in the 2025-26 budget for the project, which aims to reduce accident risks and enhance the visual appeal of…

New Delhi: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first astronaut to travel to International Space Station (ISS), had an interactive virtual session with students and teachers from schools affiliated with CISCE on Thursday. Speaking live from Goa as part of the CISCE Inspire Series, Shukla addressed over 50,000 students and 1,000 teachers across India and abroad.Shukla…

New Delhi: National Green Tribunal on Friday clubbed and heard three matters concerning illegal sand mining activities along the Yamuna floodplain between Delhi and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, including a case based on NGT taking suo motu cognisance of a TOI report.It directed the chief secretary of Delhi to ensure the nomination of officials for…

New Delhi: Female inmates celebrated World Mental Health Day in Tihar and Mandoli Jail on Friday through yoga, dance, painting and music. The events focused on the importance of psychological care and rehabilitation in the prisons that have over 600 women.In central jail 12 in Mandoli, the inmates participated in a mix of exercises using…

New Delhi: The city recorded its lowest night temperature of the season at 18.8 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal, on Friday. It was the first time this season the minimum temperature dipped below 20 degrees Celsius at Safdarjung, the city’s base weather station. The maximum temperature on Friday was recorded at 29.9 degrees Celsius,…

New Delhi: Delhi Police‘s crime branch has busted a drug trafficking module supplying ‘Malana Cream’ to students at prominent colleges in Hauz Khas and Qutub Institutional area. Two arrests were made and over 2,000 grams of contraband worth Rs 2 crore were seized. They were also selling it at rave parties on the city’s outskirts.DCP…

New Delhi: A 34-year-old man was stabbed to death in northeast Delhi’s New Usmanpur on Thursday.The deceased has been identified as Gajender, a barber residing in Dayalpur.Police received information via a PCR call regarding a dead body in Khadar area near Khajuri Chowk.The body was shifted to a hospital for post-mortem examination.A case under Section…