NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court is likely to decide on Tuesday the plea for premature release filed by Santosh Kumar Singh, who is serving a life term for the 1996 rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo. Justice Sanjeev Narula, after hearing submissions from the state and Singh, reserved the order on his plea…
New Delhi: Following complaints of irregularities in the functioning of Poorva Sanskritik Kendra, industries minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa has sought a report from Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Corporation.Sirsa said there were complaints of “under-invoicing” and serving liquor without a licence against the operators of the cultural hub. Sources said DSIIDC also received complaints of…
NEW DELHI: Lashing out at the Rekha Gupta government in Delhi over fuel ban for end-of-life vehicles, AAP leader and former minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday slammed the goernment’s enforcement mechanism, likening the administration to “Phulera Panchayat”, a satirical jab referencing the fictional village in the web series Panchayat.Bharadwaj criticised the Delhi government and central…
New Delhi: Overruling a medical board of AIIMS, Delhi high court on Monday permitted a minor sexual assault survivor to terminate her over-26-week pregnancy, noting it was “not difficult for this court to comprehend the grave mental trauma and deep injury inflicted” on the girl due to the assault, reports Abhinav Garg.Justice Manoj Jain directed…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi has now invited applications from mobile food trucks and vans, in addition to kiosk vendors, from across the city under its revised plan for the Khau Gali pilot initiative. The selected vendors will display and sell Delhi’s delicacies at a food night market behind Salimgarh Fort in central Delhi….
New Delhi: A court on Monday allowed CBI to close the case of former JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, who went missing on Oct 15, 2016. Central Bureau of Investigation probed all plausible aspects and exhausted all options, it observed. “The truth may elude us, but the quest for truth must go on—unwavering and undeterred,” observed…
New Delhi: End-of-life vehicles (ELV) will not be able to refuel at any city filling station from Tuesday. It had been announced earlier that all ELVs would not only be denied fuel in the capital, but they would also be impounded on the spot and taken for scrapping from July 1. All fuel pumps have…
New Delhi: In the filth-clogged drains and toxic canals of Delhi, a bare-bodied brigade of 15 divers pull out the capital’s dead—drowned, dumped or disappeared. They dive without gear, without gloves and without complaints, pulling out bloated corpses from open drains, battling suffocating foam in polluted rivers, snake bites and the unbearable stench of decay….
New Delhi: From his elevated office platform at the petrol pump near Anand Vihar railway station, Nischal Singhania observes incoming vehicles while contemplating what it would be like on Tuesday, when restrictions on refuelling by end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) kick in. Although he has briefed his staff about the process, he remains concerned, particularly because the…
New Delhi: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) told National Green Tribunal that it followed all rules while building Urban Extension Road (UER) over a village pond near southwest Delhi’s Goyal Khurd.The reply came after NGT took cognisance of a TOI report from last Sept, which highlighted that a natural pond, listed by Delhi govt…
