Delhi LG VK Saxena on Monday constituted a high-power committee to ease and facilitate license requirements for restaurants and eateries.
With the help of National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS), Delhi Police has cracked two burglary cases. After two businessmen in Safdarjung Enclave filed complaints about the burglaries, the fingerprints collected from the crime spots were matched with the national fingerprint database of the criminals and the two accused, including a Bangladeshi national, were identified. Both have been arrested.
Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai on Sunday said the city government has set up 586 teams to ensure strict implementation of the ban on construction and demolition activities in the national capital in view of worsening air quality.
The spectacular Northern Lights visible only in high latitude regions like Finland, Greenland and Alaska made their way on Friday night to the lawns of the Hans Hofmann-designed Swiss embassy in Chanakyapuri. Surprised? Well, it was only Swiss light artiste Gerry Hofstetter illuminating the trees around in different hues — of the Swiss flag, our Tricolour, peacock feather, tiger and other patterns
A Class XII student of an English medium school died after falling from the eighth floor of a highrise society in Sector 45 on Saturday afternoon.
Delhi recorded its air quality in the 'very poor' category on Sunday morning and forecasters said slow wind speed and an increase in stubble burning, especially in Punjab, may push it to the 'severe' zone.
A 17-year-old youth was allegedly stabbed to death by two juveniles in central Delhi's Patel Nagar area, police said on Saturday.
Despite the cutthroat fight for admission to Delhi University, many courses haven’t evoked interest among aspirants.
Politics over Chhath Puja and the polluted Yamuna apart, officials carrying out the spraying of an anti-surfactant on the foam in the Yamuna – which has been the picture postcard of Chhath that the Capital sends out annually – have vouched for the chemical's safety and efficacy.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Friday claimed that it had till date processed 77 lakh metric tonnes of waste at the three landfill sites and would flatten them soon.
Police have arrested a former employee of a private company for allegedly stalking, harassing and threatening its manager after he was sacked by her.The complainant, a 30-year-old woman, said Yogender Singh (in his 30s) had joined the firm as a consultant on April 7 earlier this year.
A 72-year-old farmer from Bihar’s Begusarai, who was suffering from difficulty in breathing and swallowing, was successfully operated at Ganga Ram Hospital and got rid of a “coconut-sized tumour” in his thyroid gland. The complicated surgery was conducted last month and now he is living a normal life with thyroid medication.
It was routine as usual. At 362, the city’s air quality turned ‘very poor’ on Thursday, deteriorating 48% from the day before, as winds that had earlier cleared away pollutants slowed down to just 3km per hour, allowing smog to persist.
The Noida Authority has reported a significant increase in investments proposed by companies in the past five years. According to official data, the investments jumped from Rs 1,184 crore in the 2017-2018 financial year to Rs 6,745 crore in 2021-22.
The bursting of firecrackers increased noise pollution in the district this Diwali, which happens every year, but the levels saw a dip this year compared to last year.
Delhi Police has arrested two brothers in separate cases of kidnapping and rape. The accused in the kidnapping case jumped bail in 2020, while his brother allegedly raped a woman last year.
Teams appointed by Delhi government have inspected over 6,800 construction sites in the city as part of its anti-dust campaign and issued notices for cumulative penalties of Rs 32.4 lakh to over 250 of them for violations, government officials disclosed on Wednesday.
The Delhi high court has upheld the life-term imprisonment of two men in a 2014 acid attack case and awarded Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the woman victim.
An Iraqi couple was allegedly robbed of 15,000 US dollars near a hotel by two miscreants posing as cops on Sunday. The victims, Nada Ali Salman and her husband Faris Abbas had come to the city for the latter’s treatment, police said.
With an hourly PM2.5 concentration of 1,042 micrograms per cubic metre at midnight on Diwali, the pollution at Okhla Phase II was 17 times the national safe standard of 60 micrograms per cubic metre and 69 times higher than the World Health Organization norm of 15 micrograms per cubic metre.
According to the police, the three along with one Mohammad Ehsaan, who also works and stays with them, had gone to a nearby park and were returning to their residence.
The Azad Maidan police, probing a case of hacking where an unidentified person illegally accessed the system of the city police passport verification branch, found that the accused had used an internet protocol (IP) address allotted to a device in Noida.The accused had cleared three passport application files pending for inquiry and forwarded them to the passport office.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday claimed that among 10 most polluted cities in Asia, eight are from India and Delhi is not on the list. Citing a report, he claimed that some years back, Delhi was considered to be one of the "most polluted cities in the world" but not anymore.
Commuting from NH-8 to Southern Peripheral Road via a 5km stretch is noth - ing but a nightmare for the residents of the new sectors in the area. This is because the cru - cial road linking the new sec - tors with other parts of the city is broken in some spots and riddled with potholes in others.
Days after being beaten up in the Ghazipur area, a man succumbed to his injuries on Sunday. Police said the deceased was a snake charmer and had some dispute with the accused.
Two men allegedly involved in multiple cases of theft have been arrested from Delhi and Faridabad, police said on Sunday.
Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai recently said bursting of firecrackers on Diwali in Delhi will attract a jail term of up to six months and a fine of Rs 200.
A 40-year-old BSc computer science graduate was arrested for allegedly blackmailing and harassing a woman. The accused was sending the woman messages and emails and uploading her photographs on Instagram without her consent. He had demanded Rs seven lakh from the woman for deleting the photos.
Many parts of the city faced traffic congestion on roads on Saturday due to the ongoing festive season. Special arrangements were made to manage traffic and ensure minimum inconvenience to commuters on Dhanteras.
Chhath Puja will be celebrated on the Yamuna ghats like before, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday. He tweeted that all officials had been directed to ensure that the river was not polluted.
Two criminals were arrested after a brief exchange of fire in northeast Delhi's Jyoti Nagar in the early hours of Saturday, police said.
The admission process at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has begun for those undergraduate courses for which admissions are based on scores obtained by aspirants in the Common University Entrance Test (CUET). For admissions to courses like BA (H) Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Pashto, Russian and Spanish, CUET scores are being considered.
A fire broke out at a banquet hall in northwest Delhi's Rohini on Friday, officials said. According to fire officials, the information regarding the blaze at the banquet hall in Rohini's Sector-3 was received at 2.29pm and 13-14 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
Delhi lieutenant governor V K Saxena has flagged that he has received Lokayukta reports from the city government after an "inordinate delay" of three years, and said being the custodian of public trust, it should display appropriate alertness. Saxena has written to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over the matter.
Though Delhi government has increased the number of beds in hospitals and opened new facilities to improve the healthcare infrastructure, no new posts have been created for the nursing cadre.
After outrage over a toddler's death, the Noida Authority is planning a "dog policy" to identify feeding points and build small shelters in residential areas to reduce chances of conflict, officials said on Thursday. The Authority will also come up with a three-month roster for the stray dog sterilisation programme, they said.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused an urgent hearing of a plea seeking removal of the complete ban on firecrackers in the national capital, saying “let the people of Delhi breathe clean air”. The plea was filed by BJP parliamentarian Manoj Tiwari.
Several doctors’ associations have strongly opposed the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) issued for the treatment of sitting members of Parliament at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Delhi (AIIMS) by its director Dr M Srinivas.
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined an urgent hearing of a plea filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Manoj Tiwari challenging the Delhi government's decision to ban the sale, purchase, and usage of firecrackers during festive seasons in the city.
The Delhi government on Thursday issued an order withdrawing the Rs 500 fine for not wearing masks in public places in the national capital.
The vehicle driver fled from the spot, the police said, adding the duo was rushed to a nearby private hospital.
AIIMS Delhi has come up with a technique that allows patients diagnosed with cancer in the lower part of the body and undergoing tumour removal to have a better life expectancy and good quality of life.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi has no plans to impose a ban on keeping dogs of certain breeds as pets.
Most of the societies in Noida and Greater Noida don't have feeding points for stray dogs, with only a handful of them having designated some areas outside the gated complexes to limit any chances of conflict.
Delhi Metro’s daily average ridership in September rose to 87% of the pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest data of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). There has been a steady growth in daily average ridership in the past few months. The footfall in September was 47.3 lakh as against 39.5 lakh in May.
A Delhi court on Tuesday resumed hearing the bail application of minister Satyendar Jain in a money laundering case against him. The hearing will continue Wednesday in the court of special judge Vikas Dhull.
Police said the matter came to light after a complainant was filed by one M R Prakash and five others alleging that Iyer told them that he was an executive director in Bhagwati Airways Express Ltd. He signed franchise agreements with the complainants to make them business associates (in cargo sector) in territories of Mumbai, Chennai and Coimbatore, the police added.