New Delhi: To tackle textile waste and promote circular economy practices, the Delhi govt Monday launched a project that will set up collection centres for old clothes at 10 metro stations in the first phase.‘Arpan Kendras’ will be established at Shahdara, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Malviya Nagar, Hauz Khas, Dwarka, Mohan Estate, Lajpat Nagar,…
New Delhi: Consumers in Delhi are increasingly choosing digital modes to pay their electricity bills, with more than nine out of every 10 bill payments now taking place through online channels, according to data shared by the city’s power distribution companies.Data from Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL) and BSES discoms shows a steady…
New Delhi: For Nagma, summer means sleepless nights, lost wages, missed classes for her children and illness. By 8 in the morning, the sun starts beating down on the roof of the one-room house she rents in Sundar Nagri. Located on the fourth floor, the room traps heat throughout the day and remains stifling even…
– Automated sprinkler system activated when a car caught fire in the Dwarka Expressway Tunnel in Delhi. ——— Source from X New Delhi: In less than four minutes, an automatic system detected a fire in a moving car inside the Dwarka Expressway tunnel, activated and suppressed the blaze.At 11 am on Monday, the video incident…
Victim Priyanka, accused Manish Bhati NEW DELHI: A day after allegedly shooting dead his wife on a deserted road in East Delhi’s Kalyanpuri, Delhi Police constable Manish Bhati was found dead from an apparent suicide in Mayur Vihar on Tuesday.Police sources said Bhati’s body was found behind a prominent hotel with a gunshot wound to…
The Supreme Court has transferred a money laundering case involving real estate businessman Amit Katyal (File photo, enhanced with AI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred a money laundering case linked to the alleged cheating of homebuyers involving real estate businessman Amit Katyal from a special PMLA court in Gurgaon to a special…
New Delhi: Barely a year after rolling out the fourth year of its undergraduate programme, Delhi University is set to significantly recalibrate the implementation of its National Education Policy (NEP)-mandated four-year degree, moving towards offering the additional year through select cluster colleges after low student uptake made the existing model difficult to sustain.A recommendation by…
Activist Sonam Wangchuk continues his hunger strike on 17th day despite worsening health. Student activists have also been hospitalized as their protest enters its 4th week (Photo credit: X/@Abhijeet Dipke) NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk on Tuesday refused to end his indefinite hunger strike despite worsening health, as his fast entered its 17th day and…
New Delhi: “My school taught me the alphabet, while poverty gave me the light of wisdom. Together, they made me a servant of literature,” Tamil poet R Vairamuthu said Monday as he received the 60th Jnanpith Award for 2025, India’s highest literary honour.Speaking in Tamil, with the essence of his address subsequently presented in Hindi,…
New Delhi: Rescue teams continued their search Monday as families waited anxiously on the bank more than 24 hours after four class 10 students were swept away while bathing in the Yamuna near Hiranki Road in outer north Delhi.The four boys — Rahul, Anshu, Saurabh and Amandeep — were close friends who had gone together…
