New Delhi: Delhi govt has ordered a CAG audit of the three private power discoms over the accumulation of Rs 38,500-crore regulatory assets that are to be recovered from consumers. If undertaken, it will be the first CAG audit of the discoms since the privatisation of electricity distribution in Delhi in 2002.Comptroller and Auditor General…
New Delhi: Behind polite “namastes” and a high rent of Rs 15,000 — more than double what other tenants pay a month — a suspected synthetic drug lab used to operate out of a flat in a residential building in north Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar.Nearly three weeks after a Nigerian woman plunged to her death from…
New Delhi: A court Thursday dismissed CBI’s plea for further police custody of IPS officer Deepak Gehlawat in the Rs 3-crore bribery case linked to the alleged Rs 5,000-crore fake medicine manufacturing racket. The agency is “totally silent with regard to the steps taken in investigation” to ascertain the identity of the public servant whom…
New Delhi: Posing as an eligible bride in search of a husband and later going “missing”, 40-year-old Lalita allegedly got unsuspecting men into fake marriages before vanishing with their money. Police have arrested three people, including Lalita, her husband and another accomplice, Deepu.According to the police, the scam came to light after a missing-person report…
New Delhi: Police have arrested a Dwarka house help for allegedly making false allegations of rape against a man who had booked her through an app for house cleaning on June 30.At 1.22 pm on June 30, police got a PCR call. The woman who dialled 112 told the cops that she was assigned a…
New Delhi: Outside Shaheen Bagh’s Chand Masjid, the questions are no longer about protest sites or road blockades, but about booth-level officers (BLOs), enumeration forms and whether elderly parents have the documents they may need.Volunteers say the mosque will set up neighbourhood camps, this time not to mobilise a protest, but to help residents complete…
New Delhi: Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) detected a country-made pistol along with a live cartridge during security screening at Mandi House metro station Thursday, preventing the prohibited weapon from entering the metro network.“At 10:11am, the weapon was detected during the routine frisking of a passenger identified as a resident of Uttar Pradesh. CISF personnel…
Stone-pelting on Indian trains is a growing menace, with thousands of incidents reported annually. A passenger is injured after a stone crashes through a train window. An alert loco pilot spots an iron pipe on the tracks seconds before disaster. A low-intensity blast damages a freight corridor, triggering a multi-agency investigation.Different states. Different methods. But…
Diljit Dosanjh has clarified his stance on the ongoing Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar (Photo credit: x/@Diljit Dosanjh) NEW DELHI: Punjabi superstar Diljit Dosanjh has distanced himself from the ongoing protest by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar, saying he is an artiste and not a politician.The actor addressed the…
New Delhi: Outside, the weekend afternoon drifts by in a familiar haze. The traffic has thinned, the sun hangs heavy, and the city seems to have agreed, briefly, to slow down. Inside a room at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), nothing does.The moment the door opens, movement replaces the lull. Hands are already…
