In a shocking incident, Uttar Pradesh police have asked local roadside vendors and restaurant owners in Greater Noida (Dadri) not to serve or prepare non-vegetarian dishes including eggs as Kanwariyas prefer only pure vegetarian food, on Wednesday. The officials have justified its decision saying that the number of pilgrims returning[Read More…]
Farmers from Tamil Naidu resumed the second phase of protest at Jantar Mantar, Delhi demanding drought relief package and loan waiver are unhappy over the massive hike in salaries of their state legislators. The farmers, while expressing their anger on Thursday, beat themselves with chappals (slippers) and shouted slogans. Leading the protest[Read More…]
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation staffers have threatened to go on strike on July 23 as they press for raise in their pay grades. However, as their long-standing demand has not been met by the corporation they have stated that the responsibility of any disruptions in the Delhi metro services[Read More…]
New Delhi and NCR witnessed a heavy amount of downpour on Thursday morning. The showers began early morning. Commuters heading to work had a tough time wading through waterlogged areas in the National Capital Region. Although the rains brought relief from the scorching heat, it clogged several roadways in the[Read More…]
The results of the Presidential elections will be declared on Thursday as the counting of votes for the 15th Presidential election takes place in New Delhi. Soon, it will be cleared that who will occupy India’s top Constitutional post. While NDA’s Ram Nath Kovind looks set to win against opposition[Read More…]
Among the dignitaries present to grace the event were Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, Delhi BJP Chief, Manoj Tiwari, Mayor East Delhi DMC, Neema Bhagat, Special Commissioner of Police, New Delhi, Deependra Pathak, Water Minister for Delhi, Rajendra Gautam, among others. The forum is a platform that enables[Read More…]
Deputy CM and Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday announced a new merit cum scholarship scheme for the students in need. This fee waiver system has been launched only for a certain section of students pursuing higher studies in any state varsity of Delhi. Under the scheme, students from a[Read More…]
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…]
