New Delhi: Delhi Police’s crime branch arrested five people and seized 18,47,400 psychotropic tablets valued at an estimated Rs 9 crore, following an investigation into an alleged interstate and international drug trafficking network.The case began on Oct 7 last year, when acting on inputs, police apprehended 50-year-old Mohammad Abid from Madanpur Khadar Extension-I in southeast…
New Delhi: After prioritising framing of a long-term plan to tackle vehicular pollution that spikes AQI in Delhi-NCR, Supreme Court on Monday asked ministries of power, industry and environment to submit a proposal for relocating all coal-based industries from the national capital region.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M…
New Delhi: Six years after the Feb 2020 communal riots in northeast Delhi, the neighborhoods that bore the brunt of the violence are slowly recovering. The scars remain but markets have reopened, and homes are being rebuilt. The violence claimed at least 53 lives and left over 500 injured.In Tyre Market, Gokalpuri, nearly 70 to…
New Delhi: The accused couple in the alleged racial abuse case in Malviya Nagar joined the investigation and are being questioned, police said on Monday. The case was registered after 3 women from Arunachal Pradesh alleged that they were subjected to racial slurs, criminal intimidation and insults to their modesty during an altercation on Friday.The…
New Delhi: An 18-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by bike-borne assailants while returning from a wedding function in northwest Delhi’s Model Town on Sunday morning.The deceased has been identified as Ishant, a resident of Jahangirpuri. A PCR call was received around 2.28 am reporting that a man was lying injured near Azadpur. As police…
New Delhi: At least 14 people, among them fire fighters and Delhi Police personnel, were injured when an LPG cylinder exploded during a blaze inside a building in northwest Delhi’s Majlis Park on Sunday morning.The fire broke out around 9 am on the stilt floor, where vehicles were parked and household items were stored.The police…
New Delhi: It was the 1981 classic ‘Silsila’ and its unforgettable song ‘dekha ek khwab’, filmed amid breathtaking tulip fields of Keukenhof in the Netherlands, which first introduced Indian audiences to the enchanting world of vibrant tulips. Many started dreaming of wandering through the fields with endless ribbons of colour.Forty-five years later, the dream has…
New Delhi: Delhi’s daytime temperature continued its upward climb on Sunday, edging closer to 30 degrees Celsius. It is predicted to rise further by two-three degrees and may touch 33 degrees Celsius on Feb 27 and 28.If the day temperature reaches 33, it would be early summer-like conditions in Feb. In the past 15 years,…
NEW DELHI: In the summer of 2007, sleuths of Delhi Police‘s special cell at Lodhi Colony were alerted about Lashkar-e-Taiba‘s Bangladesh-based ‘launching commander’ Abu al-Qama recruiting a man named Shabbir Ahmed Lone from Srinagar to carry out a fidayeen attack in the capital. A high-profile politician was supposedly the target.In July that year, the cops,…
New Delhi: Action-driven research lies at the heart of Project Anusandhaan, an academic initiative that seeks to transform disability studies into a powerful instrument for social change.Anchored at Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, and developed through a collaboration between Centre for Disability Research and Training (CDRT) and National Centre for Promotion of Employment for…
