New Delhi: For 26-year-old bike-taxi driver Zubair Ali, long hours on Delhi’s roads meant security for his family. With a five-month pregnant wife, a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and an ailing mother, he took up extra rides and even ration-loading work to make ends meet.On Sunday, that routine ended in tragedy when he was crushed under a…
Mumbai: The owner of a courier and logistics firm has lodged a police complaint against one of his employees for misappropriating gold and diamond jewellery and cash collectively worth Rs 36 lakh. Vile Parle police have lodged an FIR against the employee.The logistics firm is based out of Zaveri Bazaar in south Mumbai. It specialises…
New Delhi: Multiple Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports—from the period when AAP was in office in Delhi—are expected to be tabled in the upcoming winter session of the Delhi Assembly, officials said. The reports likely to be presented include those on mohalla clinics, the renovation of ‘Sheesh Mahal’—the official residence where Arvind Kejriwal stayed…
Mumbai: An alert police constable came to the rescue of a senior citizen who was being assaulted with a bamboo stick and sickle, over a property dispute at Khar recently. Police registered an FIR against two persons for ‘attempt to murder,’ besides provisions of Indian Arms Act.The victim, Hemant Dalal (64), a realtor, was disputing…
Delhi Police special commissioner (crime) Devesh Chandra Srivastava NEW DELHI: Online predators are claiming new victims every day, reinventing their tactics to bypass every defence. Whether it is the lure of easy investment gains, the psychological warfare of ‘digital arrest’, blackmail or fake utility alerts, the reach of cybercrime seems unending.This year alone, Delhi has…
Mumbai: Days after the Mumbai fire brigade issued a notice to the National Sports Club of India (NSCI), Worli, citing multiple lapses in fire prevention and life safety measures at its sprawling sports complex, the NSCI assured it that corrective measures have been taken. The notice was issued following an inspection conducted on Dec 19…
NEW DELHI: As the city’s markets glittered with festive lights and shoppers scrambled for last-minute deals this week, many thought they had stumbled upon an early Christmas miracle: Tucked away on electricity poles, shop windows and parking meters were QR codes promising a ‘free gift’. However, those who scanned the code didn’t find a voucher…
Ambernath: Ambernath’s political atmosphere has heated up following the appearance of Shiv Sena posters across the city soon after the BJP secured a symbolic victory by winning the directly elected president’s post of the Ambernath Municipal Council, a result the party has been projecting as one of its biggest achievements in the civic elections.Shiv Sena…
Full list of 45 Atal Canteens open across Delhi NEW DELHI: Marking the 101st birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Delhi government on Thursday launched the Atal canteen scheme, opening 45 canteens across the capital to provide nutritious meals at just Rs 5.The scheme was inaugurated at an Atal canteen near…
NEW DELHI: Delhi has emerged as the biggest gap in India’s flagship anti-drug campaign for medical colleges, with an RTI revealing that none of the capital’s 10 institutions submitted mandatory action-taken reports (ATRs) under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan. Nationwide, only 49 medical colleges have filed compliance reports so far.The programme, launched in August 2024…
