New Delhi: The underground tunnel between Maa Anandmayee Marg and Tughlaqabad railway colony station has been completed on the Tughlaqabad-Aerocity corridor of phase IV, also known as Golden Line. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through on Saturday morning at Tughlaqabad railway colony station after boring a 0.79km-long tunnel. This tunnel breakthrough was achieved using…
New Delhi: With the official date of the arrival of the monsoon in the city just three weeks away, Delhi’s civic agencies are facing a stiff challenge to complete the cleaning of its drainage system and keep it ready to face heavy showers.Data accessed by TOI revealed that Public Works Department managed to desilt nearly…
New Delhi: In the first seizure of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) this year, Delhi Police Special Cell recovered counterfeit notes with a face value of Rs 4 lakh. The high-quality fake notes, all in Rs 500 denomination, were smuggled into Delhi via Bangladesh. The courier was traced to Datia in Bihar.The accused was identified…
New Delhi: A man allegedly murdered a woman he was in a relationship with at his flat in east Delhi. He then packed her body in a suitcase, drove around Delhi and Uttar Pradesh before dumping it in Hapur district in the neighbouring state. Police inquiries revealed that the murder motive was a dispute over…
New Delhi: A Delhi court, while sentencing a man to life imprisonment for attempting to murder a 5-year-old child in 2017, observed that the conduct of the man did not deserve any leniency.The court of Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sahrawat, on June 4, noted that the man inflicted several stone blows on the head of…
New Delhi: A 30-year-old man was apprehended in Ghaziabad for allegedly sending death threats to Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta. The accused was identified as a resident of the Panchvati area in Ghaziabad. Officials stated that he was under the influence of alcohol during the incident and acted out of frustration over ongoing family disputes.Originally…
New Delhi: Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa shared a standard operating procedure allowing individuals, RWAs, and land-owning agencies to prune or fell trees in “emergency situations” under Section 8 of the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 (DPTA).Sirsa clarified that while Section 8 of the DPTA generally prohibits the felling, removal, or disposal of…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has ordered status quo on a proposed demolition by DDA of a property in Batla House after a woman challenged the decision, arguing that she had lived there for 25 years.The woman, Ishrat Jahan, was served a demolition notice by DDA, which claimed illegal construction on the premises and gave…
A Taekwondo team from Korea performed a special emonstration at the exhibition A new exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre takes visitors through the history of Taekwondo – from its beginnings in the 1940s to its growth as a global sport. The exhibition, titled Taekwondo, Facing the World , was inaugurated recently in the presence…
New Delhi: To help persons with benchmark disabilities having serious mobility issues, Delhi govt is working on a proposal to provide them with financial assistance to avail themselves of the services of caregivers.Delhi social welfare minister Ravindra Indraj Singh told TOI that his department was working on a scheme and would soon bring a proposal…
