New Delhi: Starting from 2025 academic session, PhD students at Delhi Technological University (DTU) will be required to register their attendance through a biometric system. This step will directly impact their eligibility for fellowship benefits.In a notification issued by the university, attendance was made a prerequisite for fellowship claims. “Students must mark their presence daily…
In the first seven months of 2025, the Supreme Court heard 14 death sentence appeals and ordered full acquittal in seven of them, the highest death sentence-to-acquittal ratio in a single year in recent history. Of the remaining seven, the apex court commuted four to life imprisonment. All told, SC has shot down the death…
NEW DELHI: More than 10,000 police personnel and 3,000 traffic cops, aided by hi-tech surveillance, including under-vehicle systems, FRS and ANPR cameras, are being deployed in Delhi as the national capital gears up for Independence Day, an official said on Tuesday.With just two days left for Independence Day, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak…
NEW DELHI: India’s most wanted illegal arms supplier, Sheikh Salim alias ‘Salim Pistol’, has been brought back to Delhi after being arrested in Nepal in a joint operation by the Delhi Police Special Cell, Indian security agencies, and Nepal Police.Salim, who had been on the run since 2018, is now in the custody of the…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday announced that train services will start at 4 am on all lines on Independence Day, August 15, to accommodate guests, invitees, and the general public attending celebrations at the Red Fort.According to the DMRC advisory, trains will run every 30 minutes until 6 am, after…
NEW DELHI: More than 10,000 police personnel and 3,000 traffic cops, aided by hi-tech surveillance, including under-vehicle systems, FRS and ANPR cameras, are being deployed in Delhi as the national capital gears up for Independence Day, an official said on Tuesday.With just two days left for Independence Day, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak…
NEW DELHI: A city court on Monday refused anticipatory bail to businessman Vicky Ramancha, prime accused in an alleged $18.8 million international scam involving counterfeit doses of Ozempic, an anti-diabetic drug being used for weight loss. Additional sessions judge Saurabh Partap Singh Laler observed that the scale of the alleged fraud and the serious health…
NEW DELHI: In a relief to owners who were facing the threat of their overage vehicles being impounded by authorities in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that no coercive action be taken against them and agreed to reexamine its 2018 order by which it had banned the plying of more than 15 years…
NEW DELHI: Cricketer Suresh Raina will appear for questioning before ED on Wednesday in connection with a money laundering case against illegal online betting. Raina, sources said, has been summoned in connection with 1XBet. More details related to this case were not available.In a crackdown against illegal betting cases related to IPL cricket matches, the…
NEW DELHI: Rajiv Pratap Rudy extended his 25-year leadership of the Constitution Club, defeating fellow BJP MP Sanjeev Balyan in a closely watched election that saw participation from top political figures, including BJP’s Amit Shah and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.Celebrating past midnight with supporters, Rudy said to news agency ANI “I may have won by…
