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NEW DELHI: Heavy rains and cloudbursts have triggered landslides across several districts of Uttarakhand, leaving at least five people dead and three others missing, officials have said. Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri, and Bageshwar districts were among the worst affected as overnight rainfall damaged homes, swept away vehicles, and submerged farmland. The Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has reserved its order on a petition by the Gautam Gambhir Foundation seeking to quash criminal proceedings against it. The case relates to allegations that the foundation stocked and distributed COVID-19 drugs during second wave. The proceedings also involve former BJP MP Gautam Gambhir, along with his family members…

New Delhi: Delhi govt is set to move a proposal before the cabinet to create a separate cadre of engineers in public works department (PWD). Currently, all engineers posted in Delhi PWD are sent by the central public works department (CPWD), and they keep moving from one state to another every 3-4 years.This move, officials…

NEW DELHI: A festive afternoon of kite flying on Aug 19 turned into a nightmare for 12-year-old Rishabh Singh Parihar, who slipped from the first floor of his house and has been battling for life in a private hospital, with his parents unable to find a ventilator bed for him in any govt hospital in…

Heavy rain caused significant disruptions in Delhi-NCR on Friday morning, leading to waterlogged roads and severe traffic congestion. Metro services on the Yellow Line faced delays between Vishwavidyalaya and Central Secretariat, further compounding commuter woes. NEW DELHI: Heavy rain lashed parts of Delhi-NCR on Friday morning, leaving commuters stranded in traffic snarls and waterlogged stretches,…

NEW DELHI: The Railway Board has decided to add more coaches to Vande Bharat trains on seven operational routes in view of high passenger occupancy, officials said.The seven routes include Mangaluru Central–Thiruvananthapuram Central, Secunderabad–Tirupati, Chennai Egmore–Tirunelveli, Madurai–Bengaluru Cantt, Deoghar–Varanasi, Howrah–Rourkela, and Indore–Nagpur.Officials said the released trains will also be deployed on some new routes. At…

New Delhi: More than two years after Delhi University student Nikhil Chauhan was fatally stabbed outside his college in South Campus following a past dispute, a Delhi court has held that one of the minor accused will be tried as an adult.The order was passed by additional sessions judge (Pocso) Pawan Singh Rajawat at Rouse…

New Delhi: Two persons were arrested for duping a jewellery showroom using fake e-vouchers. They initially purchased Rs 2 lakh worth of gold coins and then attempted to scam the shop by producing fake vouchers of Rs 8 lakh in central Delhi’s Rajendra Nagar.According to police, the duo visited a gold showroom on Pusa Road…

These weather updates are based on data from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.New Delhi is experiencing a moderately rainy day on August 29, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 27°C and 32.8°C and an 86% chance of precipitation.The city is expected to receive 5.56 mm of…

New Delhi: An eight-year-old girl died after an e-rickshaw overturned and fell on her in northeast Delhi’s Jafrabad on Wednesday. Akshita Parashar was a Class III student and lived with her family in Maujpur. A hospital informed police on Wednesday of a girl brought dead for treatment. The girl’s father, Manish Parashar, informed the cops…