New Delhi: The Union environment ministry’s recent draft notification proposing to exempt waste management facilities from mandatory environmental clearances has worried experts, given how central and state govts are trying to fast-track infrastructure creation to flatten Delhi’s towering landfills.Recently, while unveiling Delhi’s drainage master plan, Union urban affairs minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that he…
‘Priya Kapur islike Cinderella’s stepmother’ NEW DELHI: In the murky inheritance battle being fought over Sunjay Kapur’s assets, a dramatic fairytale reference was made in Delhi high court when his wife Priya Kapur was accused of being “greedy” and behaving like “Cinderella’s stepmother” by the late businessman’s children from ex-wife Karisma Kapoor on Thursday. The…
New Delhi: “Last year, while returning from college in a saree, someone tried to follow me and touch me. I had to call a friend to come meet me in the park. I was terrified,” recalled Diya, a second-year student of Aurobindo College, standing at the exact spot in Malviya Nagar’s Vijay Mandal Park where…
New Delhi: Former JNU student Umar Khalid on Thursday told a Delhi court that while he was made an accused in the 2020 riots “larger conspiracy” case for being a part of four WhatsApp groups, the group admins were not attributed any criminality. Additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai, who was hearing the framing of charges…
New Delhi: Despite clear directives from the Supreme Court to control the stray dog population and reduce rabies cases, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) seems to be lagging in implementing the required measures. At a meeting on Thursday, the civic body’s standing committee deferred a proposal to allocate Rs 13.5 crore to the veterinary department…
New Delhi: The same smog that clouds Delhi’s skyline may also be clouding the body’s defences. Doctors have warned that air pollution is quietly turning immune systems against their own bodies, fuelling a surge in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cases across NCR.At the 40th annual conference of Indian Rheumatology Association (IRACON 2025), being held from Oct…
New Delhi: A massive power blackout on April 28 caused disruptions in the metro networks in Spain and Portugal, impacting hundreds of trains and lakhs of passengers. At the time of the sudden blackout, 230 trains of Metro de Madrid were running, affecting 1,50,000 passengers. As many as 44 trains stopped in tunnels, prompting a…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has approved a proposal to build a museum-cum-research and socio-cultural centre in the institutional area of Vasant Kunj. The site falls inside the morphological ridge, which has similar physical and ecological features as the officially designated ridges and is granted the same level of protection.The committee…
New Delhi: Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University will set up an offshore campus in the Republic of Guyana, becoming the first state university in Delhi to do so and among the very few institutes across India to go abroad. The campus, to be set up with support from Govt of Guyana, has received the in-principle…
New Delhi: A 30-year-old man was arrested in Rohini’s Vijay Vihar for allegedly acting as a bookie for an online cricket betting racket during the recent Bangladesh vs Afghanistan match. He was identified as Rohit Goel, alias Kaali. The arrest was part of the Delhi Police‘s ongoing Panther-Claw operation, during which officers seized five mobile…
