Delhi

Protesters allegedly pelted stones and damaged police vehicles NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has registered an FIR against unidentified persons in connection with the violence, stone-pelting and vandalism of police vehicles during a protest near Regal Cinema in Connaught Place a day earlier.According to sources, protesters allegedly pelted stones at police personnel and damaged several police…

A large fire erupted in a Delhi residential building’s parking area. Two cylinders exploded, and four vehicles sustained damage in the blaze NEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out in the parking area of a residential building in Delhi’s Hari Nagar locality on Tuesday morning.The incident triggered two cylinder explosions and damaged four vehicles, officials…

New Delhi: Delhi Police has apprehended four juveniles and a man in connection with an alleged contract killing in Bawana. The Saturday murder was the fourth death in a fight over a plot, in which US-based gangster Himanshu Bhau and his aide, Vicky Hadal, have joined for a share. The recent killing was allegedly directed…

New Delhi: IMD has issued a yellow alert for moderate to heavy showers for Tuesday and Wednesday, after several parts of Delhi saw light rain Monday.Safdarjung, city’s base station, and Lodhi Road logged 5.8 mm and 4.7 mm of rainfall, respectively till 8.30 am Monday. Between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm, Safdarjung received 1.4 mm,…

New Delhi: Aiming to eventually increase the number of private schools in densely populated areas and reduce procedural delays, Delhi govt has replaced the decades-old mandatory essentiality certificate with a self-certification system for granting school recognition.The move eliminates an applicant’s requirement of first obtaining govt approval certifying that a new school is needed in a…

New Delhi: Life-time memberships to Delhi Development Authority’s (DDA) Sector 24 Golf Course will be thrown open Tuesday.DDA is offering 850 memberships across govt and non-govt categories for the first time. Online applications can be submitted for two months.“The Golf Course till now had only been offering tenure memberships for a limited period. Lieutenant governor…

Nods secured, but low int’l traffic to keep T3 pier C idle till Sept New Delhi: The newly converted international pier C at IGI Airport’s Terminal 3 is likely to remain unused till Sept due to a sharp reduction in overseas flights by IndiGo, Air India group and some other airlines, including foreign carriers, due…

New Delhi: Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) is strengthening higher education-industry linkages by bringing companies and institutions into its research ecosystem, a move aimed at benefiting students.The college has surveyed nearly 200 stakeholders across sectors to identify research problems that students in the fourth-year research programme can work on. The majority expressed willingness to collaborate,…

New Delhi: Central Delhi descended into chaos as thousands of protesters swarmed Jantar Mantar for Monday’s Parliament march, with an internet shutdown, closed metro stations and heavy barricading leaving protesters confused and commuters stranded.Five Delhi Metro stations were temporarily shut down on Delhi Police orders. “Due to security reasons, Janpath, Rajiv Chowk, Patel Chowk, Central…

New Delhi: Delhi High Court Monday declined to urgently list a public interest litigation challenging the removal of fasting activist Sonam Wangchuk from the Jantar Mantar protest site to Safdarjung Hospital.Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya’s bench said the petitioner was only seeking a declaration that the action was illegal, which did not warrant immediate hearing.Calling the…