New Delhi: Delhi and a large part of the country are already feeling the heat this year — far earlier than usual — with temperatures climbing sharply even before spring could properly arrive.This unusual shift is another sign that climate change is beginning to override traditional weather patterns like La Niña, which normally cools global…
New Delhi: A major fire broke out at Nature Bazaar, a handicrafts market at Andheria Mor in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur, early on Sunday morning, gutting around 40 to 50 shops. No one was injured.A large number of exhibits like carpets and home decorative items were destroyed. An initial estimate by Dastkar, an NGO that runs…
New Delhi: Delhi Police’s crime branch has arrested two absconding accused in separate murder cases. Babul Kumar was held from Kirari Suleman Nagar in Delhi for allegedly shooting dead a delivery agent during a robbery attempt in Mahindwara, Bihar, on Aug 29, 2025. Acting on a tip-off from Bihar Police, officers traced him to Ratan…
New Delhi: Citing the roster based system for allocation of cases to judges, Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, DK Upadhyay, declined a request made by former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal to transfer the excise policy appeal by CBI from justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, who is currently hearing…
New Delhi: Amid the twin challenges of rising energy demand and environmental protection, a promising line of research is emerging at Delhi University’s Miranda House College, where researchers are working to convert everyday waste energy into usable electricity with the help of environment-friendly, lead-free materials.Led by college principal Vijayalakshmi Nanda and physics department professor Monika…
New Delhi: Delhi University has objected to a statement by leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi alleging caste-based discrimination in DU admissions. He should not make unverified claims, DU demanded in a post on X.Speaking at Samvidhan Sammelan, organised on the birth anniversary of BSP founder Kanshi Ram in Lucknow on Friday, Rahul alleged that…
New Delhi: A Delhi sessions court has remanded a 2020 northeast Delhi riots case back to the magistrate court, holding that offences under Sections 399 (preparation to commit dacoity) and 402 (assembling to commit dacoity) of the IPC were not made out from the material on record. Additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai observed that the…
NEW DELHI: The phone vibrates at an odd hour, and before you can even say hello, a voice laden with the practised gravitas of a high-ranking law enforcement official cuts through the silence. In the world of the ‘digital arrest’ scam, the first weapon of the cybercriminal is not a virus or a phishing link,…
NEW DELHI: Delhi govt is preparing a water master plan that will include long-term and structural measures aimed at modernising the city’s ageing drinking water distribution network and addressing long-standing issues of leakage, contamination and uneven water supply. Under the plan, govt is planning to organise the water distribution system into nine operational zones, each…
NEW DELHI: 219 — a hurried scrawl in blue ink across my wrist that had taken nearly four hours of waiting to earn. Around 3.30pm on Friday, a woman guard sitting behind a desk outside the sub-divisional magistrate’s office in Saket scribbled that number, marking my place in the queue for Delhi govt’s Saheli card…
