NEW DELHI: Cloud-laden skies blanketed Delhi on Friday morning as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a yellow alert for thunderstorms and rain, a day after heavy showers lashed the national capital.According to the IMD, the city received moderate rainfall over the past 24 hours, with Safdarjung, Delhi’s base weather station, recording 33.6 mm of…
New Delhi: The bodies of two more people were pulled out Thursday from under the debris of two under-construction buildings that collapsed in Rohini Sector 16 Wednesday, taking the death toll to three.The deceased were identified as Nurul alias Kafe (24), a labourer, and Ram Dua (62), the husband of one of the building owners….
Multiple rounds were fired outside a banquet hall in East Delhi’s Madhu Vihar. NEW DELHI: An incident of firing outside a Banquet hall was reported in east Delhi’s Madhu Vihar on Thursday night.Police said a PCR call was received regarding the incident at 8pm.A team reached the spot and found that multiple rounds were fired,…
Thursday offered a rare sight for a city that spends much of the year battling hazardous air pollution, and a rarer statistic. Delhi’s air quality slipped into the “good” category for the first time in nearly three years, giving residents a fleeting sense of what it actually feels like to breathe clean air.The continuous monsoon…
Primary school merger has left nearly fifty children without accessible education. NEW DELHI: For years, the primary school located between Chandpur and Chhota Chandpur villages in northwest Delhi meant that young children could walk to their classrooms within minutes, without relying on buses or their parents to accompany them. But since the school was merged…
New Delhi: A seven-year-old boy drowned in a waterlogged vacant plot in outer Delhi’s Samaypur Badli Thursday morning.Rehan was a Class III student and his family has been living in the area for around nine years. According to police, Rehan and his five-year-old brother had gone to the plot in Sanjay Colony around 8.30am to…
The idea of Speed Dating was to let participants meet multiple people at once, judge vibes in-person, and put apps aside “Have you ever gone on a date just for the food? Lied about your age on a dating app? Or given a piggyback ride to a stranger for a dare?” Delhiites answered all these…
NEW DELHI: The city witnessed the year’s most intense spell of rain on Thursday, making it the wettest July day in three years. The heavy downpour caused the maximum temperature to drop below 30 o C. Four stations in DelhiNCR received more than 100mm of rainfall in 24 hours till 8.30am Thursday. Tukmirpur-Khajuri logged 160mm,…
New Delhi: Nearly 12 hours after two under-construction buildings collapsed in Rohini Wednesday, rescuers found the body of 62-year-old Ram Dua, the husband of one of the building owners.Relatives said Dua had called the property home for over two decades. The family moved out of the house around a year and a half ago, and…
A file photo of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. NEW DELHI: A BTech graduate who worked as a Mathematics teacher at coaching centres in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar has been arrested for allegedly helping the Hari Boxer-Lawrence Bishnoi gang conduct a recce of a businessman they later tried to extort, news agency PTI reported on Thursday.The accused, identified…
