NEW DELHI: A first-year BTech student of IIT-Delhi is suspected to have died by suicide on the campus on Thursday. According to police, preliminary investigation suggests depression may have led to the incident. No suicide note was recovered from the spot.Cops at Kishangarh police station received information about the incident around 8.35am Thursday. On reaching…
New Delhi: More than four decades after a public interest litigation on air pollution was filed, Supreme Court on Thursday ended one of the most significant environmental cases in the country’s legal history. Filed by lawyer MC Mehta in 1985, when environmental regulation in the country was still in its early stages, the petition led…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Friday approved a six-month extension for the agency managing toll collection at 156 plazas across the capital, with the current contract set to end on April 9. The extension will remain in force until a fresh tender is finalised or the six-month period lapses, whichever comes first,…
New Delhi: Delhi govt on Friday deployed amphibious excavator machines to clean the Najafgarh and Pankha Road drains in an effort to clean the Yamuna. Chief minister Rekha Gupta and PWD minister Pravesh Verma flagged off the machines at Badusarai Bridge along the Najafgarh drain. The high-tech machines, equipped with long-boom and short-boom variants, are…
New Delhi: Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has written to Hardeep Singh Puri, Union minister for petroleum and natural gas, seeking an uninterrupted supply of LPG cylinders to gurdwaras in the city, even as it asserted that langar services are currently running normally and shall not be affected by any future shortage.The committee’s president,…
New Delhi: Delhi govt’s Directorate of Education has extended the deadline for submitting online applications for CM Shri Schools entrance exam for academic session 2026-27. Students seeking admission to classes VI, IX and XI can now submit their applications until 5 pm on March 25. The education department decided to extend it after receiving numerous…
New Delhi: In a first for India’s public healthcare system, Safdarjung Hospital will launch a dedicated critical care follow-up clinic for ICU-discharged patients through govt’s e-Sanjeevani OPD portal. It will operate Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10-11 am, letting patients and families consult their doctors or other critical care specialists remotely. Hospital officials said it will…
New Delhi: Ten Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended in outer Delhi for allegedly overstaying in India with expired passports and visas while attempting to procure medical visas for Bulgaria, police said on Friday. The action was carried out by the Foreigner Cell of the Outer district as part of an ongoing drive to identify foreign nationals…
New Delhi: Police raided a godown allegedly used to store and distribute pirated books of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in northwest Delhi and seized more than 5,000 such textbooks meant for school students.A raid conducted on Thursday at a godown in Shahbad Daulatpur led to the recovery of 5,011 pirated NCERT…
New Delhi: A Delhi Police constable and his associate have been arrested for allegedly running a racket that generated fake police clearance certificates (PCCs). The operation surfaced during a probe into drug trafficking in southeast Delhi. The accused have been identified as constable Arun, posted at Shaheen Bagh police station, and Tushar, a resident of…
