New Delhi: Delhi High Court termed the mixing of domestic sewage with industrial waste entering the Yamuna as “extremely disturbing” on Thursday and demanded answers from the city’s pollution control panel and other authorities.Calling the facts before it “startling”, the special bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Manmeet PS Arora said: “Across the city,…
New Delhi: The polished floors of Terminal 3 at Indira Gandhi International Airport have seen their share of emotional reunions, but Thursday’s arrivals felt different. Weary passengers, their faces showing relief, clutched hastily packed bags. Their conversation topic was not a foreign holiday, but the tumult in Nepal, of the smoke-filled streets, cancelled flights and…
New Delhi: As the calendar inches closer to Durga Puja, the lanes of some city localities have begun to hum with quiet anticipation. At scattered pandal sites, artisans sit cross-legged on the ground, the earthy scent of clay thick in the air as they paint the goddess with steady, reverent hands. This year, the excitement…
New Delhi: The terror module busted by Delhi Police‘s special cell was allegedly at an advanced stage of carrying out assassinations of two right-wing politicians, of whom one is a Shiv Sena leader. The suspects are radicalised and at least two members had agreed to turn into fidayeens, police revealed on Thursday.The group was trying…
New Delhi: “Can we finalise the project?” This question, via the Signal app, would seem innocuous to the uninitiated. It could seem like a query about a business venture, but to the “CEO” and his cohort, it was a coded message that hinted at something ominous. Behind the veil of corporate jargon, a deadly plot…
Nandini Pillai during a dakla workshop in Delhi As social media is buzzing with reels of dance lovers grooving to Gujarati folk mashups, garba workshops across NCR are drawing in enthusiasts to swirl, clap and strike their dandiya sticks in rhythm. With seasoned choreographers leading crash courses and workshops, many are picking up the basic…
New Delhi: The Delhi environment department has told National Green Tribunal that demarcation of the Yamuna floodplain using billboards will start on Sept 15. Delhi Development Authority will put up the billboards announcing the floodplain area in the vicinity.The tribunal has taken suo-motu cognisance of a TOI report, titled “Why Flooding has Forced DDA’s Master…
New Delhi: An advocate, a resident of east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar, was duped of Rs 2.5 lakh by a man impersonating a customs official. According to the complaint, the advocate received a call from a man posing as a customs official claiming his client—whom he met on social media and was arriving from California—was detained…
New Delhi: The Delhi environment department has told National Green Tribunal (NGT) that demarcation of the Yamuna floodplain using billboards will start on Sept 15. Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will put up the billboards that will announce the floodplain area in the vicinity in order to check encroachments from sprouting there.Delhi govt made the reply…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested a 33-year-old man for allegedly duping a senior cardiologist of Rs 6.69 lakh by posing as an Army man. According to police, the victim, a south Delhi resident, filed a complaint stating that the accused contacted him, seeking medical consultations for 25 Army personnel at a fee of Rs…
