NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday accepted the closure report filed by CBI in a case registered against former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain and others over allegations of irregular engagement of professionals in the PWD and payments made from unrelated project funds.The court of special judge Dig Vinay Singh noted that despite several years…
New Delhi: The committee set up by Municipal Corporation of Delhi to manage street dogs decided to enhance its supervision of 20 animal birth control (ABC) centres in the city and will also come out with a helpline number soon.A second meeting of the panel brought together experts, NGOs, dog feeders and civic officials to…
New Delhi: On the day Delhi govt introduced the education bill in the assembly, the city witnessed a divide among parents. While a section of them announced plans to protest outside the assembly on Tuesday, calling the bill an attack on their rights, others welcomed it as a long-awaited step towards greater regulation and transparency…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Monday alleged that the opposition parties loved anti-national forces, but not Bharat, and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Operation Sindoor that avenged the Pahalgam terror attack. Speaking on the first day of the monsoon session of Delhi Assembly during a debate on operations Sindoor and Mahadev, Gupta…
New Delhi: Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has planned to revive the supersite of the real-time source apportionment study in partnership with Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. Previously, IIT Kanpur operated the site until their contract concluded in 2023. DPCC has also decided to conduct an audit of five-star hotels in Delhi to…
New Delhi: A young girl was trafficked at the age of 18, locked in a brothel and forced to serve men against her will for years. Today, she drives her own e-rickshaw on the same GB Road where she once lived as a trafficked sex worker. Once a captive, now a captain, her hands grip…
Gurgaon: A man was killed by unidentified assailants, who fired at least eight bullets on him, near the Southern Peripheral Road (SPR) in the Kherki Daula area on Monday night.The incident took place around 8.30pm. The victim was rushed to a local hospital, where he died, Manesar ACP Virender Saini said.The deceased, whose identity remains…
New Delhi: Thousands of Congress workers, led by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Devender Yadav, protested outside the Delhi Assembly on the first day of the monsoon session against the demolition of over 3,000 JJ clusters that displaced nearly 15,000 families. Recently, a series of demolition drives in areas like Wazirpur, Jailorwala Bagh, Shalimar…
New Delhi: A 37-year-old man was allegedly shot dead in the early hours of Monday by a 19-year-old youth following a heated argument over the closing of a property gate in south Delhi’s Dera village. The deceased was identified as Santlal, a resident of Baba Mohalla in Dera village. He was working as a caretaker…
New Delhi: With Delhi soon to set up its first e-waste eco park, industries and environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa visited the internationally acclaimed Revac e-waste processing facility in Norway’s Revetal on Monday to look at its infrastructure and understand its functioning.The minister’s office said the visit was a key milestone in Delhi govt’s plan…
