A temperature of 27.4 degree Celsius was recorded on cloudy Tuesday morning in New Delhi. According to the weather office, light showers are expected during the day in the national capital. “The sky will be generally cloudy. There is a possibility of light rain or thunderstorm towards afternoon or evening,”[Read More…]
An FIR has been registered by Delhi Police against a student of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) for allegedly assaulting a teacher on Friday evening for giving him zero marks in his internal assessment. The teacher was assaulted in the college parking lot for “ruining his future”. RP Rustagi,[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, an alleged ‘Sub Inspector’ in Delhi Police can be heard saying that he can shoot anyone who doesn’t have an Aadhaar card or any other ID proof. An audio recording has surfaced on the internet wherein activist Shabnam Hashmi can be heard talking to a man[Read More…]
Efforts are being made these days to create an atmosphere of fear and thus change the social fabric of India in the name of patriotism. Members of religious minorities fear growing intolerance. Mob violence has increased. But this is not a Hindu vs Muslim conflict. It is hate vs love.[Read More…]
A centre established by Somerville College in the University of Oxford in 2013 with a £3 million grant from India and named after Indira Gandhi has reported the name of the former prime minister dropped after the BJP government came to power in 2014. The Oxford India centre was named[Read More…]
Two teenagers, a girl, and a boy were found hanging inside a hotel room in Dwarka sector 17 in Delhi on Friday evening. The bodies were found at around 4 pm in a room in hotel. The duo had checked in to the hotel on Thursday. They were supposed to[Read More…]
Naimunnissa, a woman who had had no clue how her destiny will shape after her husband, the sole bread earner for the family of four, died of a heart attack in October 2015. With a young daughter (20) and son (16) then, barely ninth-passed Naimunnissa was entirely clueless and had[Read More…]
A Delhi court on Wednesday directed the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to file a status report in connection with the PWD scam. Delhi government has been alleged of committing illegitimate favouritism in the case. It was alleged that the PWD awarded a tender to Surendra Kumar Bansal, brother in law[Read More…]
The police on Tuesday arrested an Indian national who is suspected to be an ISIS operative. The man had been deported from Turkey twice and was recently arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital. After US intelligence agency, CIA, informed the Indian police about his arrival,[Read More…]
Fresh showers in the region brought a huge amount relief from the scorching heat and humidity in the National Capital Region on Tuesday. Light drizzle was witnessed in parts of Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad. On Monday, Delhi witnessed sultry weather and it continued till Tuesday with a temperature[Read More…]
Following the recent suggestion of Union environment and forest minister, Harsh Vardhan, the National Zoological Park in New Delhi will soon launch an animal adoption scheme for its inmates. Several zoos across the country have already launched the scheme, where a person or a corporate firm can adopt an animal.[Read More…]
In what could be termed as a bizarre rivalry, a restaurant in West Delhi recently held a competition to see who could eat the maximum number of chilli burgers in a day. Offering a reward of free meals for a month, it saw many contenders come forward to take up[Read More…]
After 16-year-old Junaid was murdered on a local train near Ballabgarh on June 22, it triggered a nationwide outrage against lynching. According to the police, Naresh, who is in his thirties, has confessed that the knife with which Junaid was stabbed was in his hand. However, the murder weapon has still[Read More…]
As Darjeeling continues to stir, the Gorkha Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti on Sunday held a protest march at Jantar Mantar. The demonstration which took place in the national capital was to press the demand for a separate ‘Gorkhaland’ from West Bengal. “We are not going to deviate this. We don’t want to[Read More…]
While car-pooling by app-based taxi aggregators such as Uber and Ola has cut the travelling cost of regular commuters, those in Delhi might soon face inconvenience as shared cab rides might soon be illegal. The move is a part of the Delhi government’s soon-to-be-implemented City Taxi Scheme, which is aimed[Read More…]
Two days after a woman shared a horrific incident she witnessed at Hauz Khas Village (HKV) in Delhi on Twitter, Delhi Police is considering to ban ladies’ nights at clubs at HKV. According to police such parties ‘disturb law and order situation’. The move may cause ending up night-party culture[Read More…]
According to a Hindustan Times report, Delhi Commission of Women played cupid in uniting a sex worker and her lover. She had met him as a client in the brothel at GB Road, Delhi some time back. That one meeting changed the lives of both of them. The man, a[Read More…]
On Thursday morning, a woman on Twitter who goes by the handle @kibbanoir shared a horrific incident she witnessed the preceding night at Hauz Khas Village (HKV) in Delhi and it is enough to give you goosebumps. The woman narrates the ordeal wherein a few men were trying to abduct[Read More…]
The Delhi University to include the historic Goods and Service Tax (GST), as a part of their curriculum in selective academic courses. A groundbreaking initiative aiming towards economic reforms in the country, GST was implemented across the Nation on July 1. One of the biggest tax reform turned India, Asia’s[Read More…]
Leader of Opposition, Punjab and Supreme Court lawyer, HS Phoolka, has been denied permission by the Delhi Bar Council to resume practice as he holds an “office of profit”. He also enjoys the rank and pay of a Cabinet Minister. After suspending practice Phoolka had sought permission from the council[Read More…]
A Facebook post portraying the latent Islamophobia and certain harmful social misconceptions of religion have been making rounds on social media. The post was made by a gentleman who claims to be a resident of Qatar, a former resident of Delhi. In the post, he narrates an incident which occurred[Read More…]
In a sad news for its customers, food chain McDonald’s is shutting down 43 of its outlets in the national capital. The move comes after the infighting between Connaught Plaza Restaurants (CPRL) and McDonald’s took an ugly turn, resulting in the closure of the outlets. CPRL is a 50-50 local[Read More…]
After reports of a Khasi woman being asked to leave the Delhi Golf Club for violating dress-code attracted huge backlash, the Delhi Golf Club Limited has issued a letter accepting its mistake. It has also tendered apologies to Tailin Lyngdoh and Nivedita Barthakur, an entrepreneur from Northeast India and Honorary[Read More…]
A gas cylinder burst claimed the lives of five people and left four others injured Delhi’s Okhla on Monday. According to Delhi Fires Services, a phone call was received around 9.56 pm about a cylinder blast at a tea stall in the Tata Steel jhuggis. The fire tenders were rushed[Read More…]
Former Cabinet Minister Kapil Mishra has been issued a notice by the Public Works Department of the Delhi government, asking him to vacate the Civil Lines bungalow he resides in ‘at the earliest’. A senior government official said that as Mishra was no longer a Cabinet minister, he was not[Read More…]