Tag: Delhi

New Delhi: A huge crowd of fans — from every nook and corner of the city and NCR — waited for hours to catch a glimpse of megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who took to a stage at a south Delhi market on Friday with wife Jaya and daughter Shweta Bachchan. The Bachchan family, minus Abhishek Bachchan […]

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to call a special session of Parliament to discuss the Rafale deal. The Aam Aadmi Party and also demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the deal. Senior AAP leader and party’s Delhi convenor Gopal Rai also posed questions to Modi […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the presence of BJP MP Manoj Tiwari before it for breaking the lock of a sealed premises in Delhi’s Gokulpur village. “It’s important that elected members should not defy the order of this court,” a bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice Abdul S. Nazeer and Justice […]

New Delhi: As Congress President Rahul Gandhi demanded Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s resignation over “free passage” given to the fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, activist Shehzad Poonawalla on Thursday claimed “Gandhi met PNB fraud accused Nirav Modi at a hotel here in September 2013.” Poonawalla also challenged Gandhi to deny that he met Nirav Modi in […]

New Delhi: The number of complaints received regarding no water supply in the national capital has gone up from 34,554 in 2015 to 52,100 in 2017, according to a “report card” released by an NGO on Tuesday. “The number of complaints of no water supply rose dramatically from 34,554 in 2015 to 52,100 in 2017,” […]

New Delhi: The Delhi government has directed all its departments to abolish the use of single-use plastic items like water bottles, plastic cups, plates, jugs, folders, banners and glasses in offices and at official events. Delhi’s Environment Ministry has issued an order to all the government departments telling them to phase out the use of […]

New Delhi: A minor girl, who had gone to relieve herself, has been sexually assaulted by an unknown masked youth in the national capital, police said on Thursday. According to the police, said the incident occurred around 8.30 p.m on Wednesday night when the victim, 11, had gone to answer the call of nature near […]

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Tuesday announced over 7,000 jobs of field surveyors for graduates for collecting household data in Delhi with a remuneration of up to Rs 1,500 per day. “The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) is inviting online applications from graduates, retired teachers, retired government officials, civil defence volunteers who are […]

New Delhi: A man from Bhopal climbed a tower here on Friday, carrying a placard demanding special status for Andhra Pradesh. A police official said the man, Uma Maheshwar, climbed the tower at the headquarters of Delhi Fire Services on Barakhamba Road here around 11.40 a.m. “AP Need(s) Special Status”, read the placard. Later, the […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Tuesday finalised and awarded the tender for the door-step delivery of 100 services in the national capital. The process will begin from August end. The cabinet had earlier approved the doorstep delivery of 40 services, and on Tuesday another 30 public services were […]

New Delhi: Police on Monday said an occultist and his accomplice were detained for questioning in the mysterious mass deaths of 11 members of a Delhi family on Sunday. Handwritten notes were recovered in the prayer area of their two-storey house in Pant Nagar in Burari, revealing a possible mystical connection to the deaths. All […]

New Delhi: The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to give another push to its demand for full statehood to Delhi with a public campaign, but experts said it was not a burning issue among residents and a way should be found to give more powers to the elected government to make its work […]

New Delhi: An Army Major, “obsessed” with his colleague’s wife, was on Sunday arrested for killing her by slashing her throat and running his car over her to make it look like an accident. Delhi Police arrested Nikhil Rai Handa from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh — more than 100 km from Delhi — and recovered […]

New Delhi: New Delhi and surrounding areas on Sunday saw a respite from both dust pollution and heat, with air quality improving from severe due to changing wind directions, and maximum temperature falling to 36.8 degrees, three notches below average. Monday will also see similar weather. Maximum temperature on Monday is likely to hover around […]

New Delhi: Petrol prices across the four metros were stable on Saturday. In the national capital, the fuel was sold at an unchanged price of Rs 76.35 per litre. In Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai too, prices were stable at Rs 79.02, Rs 84.18 and Rs 79.24 per litre respectively. On Friday, petrol prices fell by […]