NEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out in a flat on the sixth floor of Shabd Apartment in Delhi’s Dwarka on Tuesday. Eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot, and firefighting operations are currently underway. According to officials from the Delhi Fire Services, 2–3 people are feared to be trapped inside the flat. However,…
Ashram to Badarpur: Why an 8km stretch takes 45 minutes when it should take 15; NHAI eyes signal-free stretch to ease traffic NEW DELHI: Travelling from Ashram to Badarpur and vice versa on Mathura Road in southeast Delhi is a frustrating daily ritual for thousands of motorists. With heavy traffic from Noida, Faridabad and Badarpur…
NEW DELHI: In India’s darkest corners, love stories have twisted into gruesome murder horrors. Behind closed doors, betrayal and extramarital affairs have ignited savage rage—leading to brutal strangulations, savage stabbing and chilling dismemberments.Husbands and wives have been hacked to pieces, their bodies chopped, burnt and scattered, as cold-blooded killers try to erase every trace of…
New Delhi: “Mere papa ka sapna hai, ki main CA banu,” said 13-year-old Sakshi, her eyes steady even as trucks groaned past and cars honked relentlessly. Beneath the Mayapuri flyover in Kirti Nagar in west Delhi, where dust hangs thick in the air and the din of city traffic never quite fades, dreams are being…
New Delhi: A day after a nine-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered in northeast Delhi’s Dayalpur, a seven-year-old girl was reportedly molested by a man in north Delhi’s Subzi Mandi on Monday morning. The accused was beaten up by public before being handed over to police. He has been arrested.Police got to know…
New Delhi: On Saturday, in northeast Delhi’s Dayalpur, a 9-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and murdered by a neighbour. Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase in his second-floor house. The brutal crime has shaken the slum colony, but residents, especially young mothers, feel this has only exposed how, in tenements where one-room flats…
New Delhi: Delhi govt plans to overhaul the city’s water distribution and billing systems by implementing smart meters across the city to address financial inefficiencies and improve Delhi Jal Board‘s (DJB) operations.Officials said that the smart meter implementation will address persistent billing inaccuracies. The current practice of meter readers submitting outdated or incorrect images has…
New Delhi: The national capital sweltered as unbearably hot and humid weather gripped the region on Monday, with the city witnessing the hottest day this summer and parts of it recording a heatwave. While the peak temperature reached 45.5 degrees Celsius at IGNOU and 45.3 degrees at Ayanagar, Delhi’s heat index, or the “feels-like” temperature…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta and her cabinet ministers are set to inaugurate 33 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs on June 14. While she will inaugurate seven centres — one physically and six virtually — six cabinet ministers have been deputed for physical inaugurations in their respective constituencies.Gupta will also inaugurate Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendras…
New Delhi: LG VK Saxena on Monday approved a major cadre restructuring in the irrigation and flood control department of Delhi govt. Officials said the move was in line with LG’s avowed commitment to improving service conditions and requirements of govt servants in the capital. They added that the step would go a long way…
