Unbelievable! a café is managed by full deaf and mute staff in capital, yes, it’s possible and it’s being done at café named Echoes. The brainchild Kshitij Behl and Shivansh Kumar’s café is situated in Delhi’s Satya Niketan right opposite to the Venkateshwara College. Aside of serving reasonably priced food[Read More…]
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Administration lodges FIR against JNU students for administration block siege
Police has registered an FIR against students after repeated complaints from the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration, discontent with students blockading the administrative building of the campus. As students refuse to negotiate with the JNU vice-chancellor M Jagdish Kumar, he ensured that law would take its course against their activities. The[Read More…]
Doctors in Delhi alarmed by increasing drug use among the city youth
Delhi doctors predict that amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) is becoming a common use among Capital’s youth as the newest ‘high’. Recently, the drug deaddiction department at AIIMS admitted two patients who have been suffering from chronic abuse of ATS drugs. ATS is the second most commonly used drug in the[Read More…]
Connaught place units asked to prove structural stability after massive roof collapse
After the Connaught Place fiasco, Delhi government have been issued notices to evince the structural stability of their premises on Thursday. This decision comes soon after a safety audit of the commercial complex in the central Delhi. NDMC deployed 15 teams to take stock of the condition of commercial establishments in[Read More…]
Delhi student bags Rs 1.25 crore placement offer
A Delhi Technological University (DTU) student bagged a package offer of Rs 1.25 crore per annum from Google. Chetan Kakkar is from DTU’s 2015 batch and simultaneously Uber has offered a package of $1,10,000. Sidharth Raja, a bright student, is a final year student of Computer Science at the DTU and passed[Read More…]
Delhi road accident victim’s family gets Rs 13.26 lakh compensation
Family member of a victim of a car accident in Delhi get a compensation of Rs 13.26 lakh. The accident was a case of rash driving and as directed by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) , the wife and children were compensated by accused. The accident occurred near Mehrauli, south Delhi.[Read More…]
GoAir flight catches fire mid-air
The 187 passengers and six crew members on board the Bengaluru-bound Airbus A320 of GoAir (G8 557) had a narrow escape after the plane caught fire just seven minutes after take-off from Delhi airport on Wednesday evening.The incident was observed by Navneet Kumar was resting inside his aunt’s house in[Read More…]
Delhi registered 140 rape cases in January 2017
Unfortunately, Delhi alone has registered about 140 cases of rape and 238 cases of molestation in January this year alone. 43 and 133 cases respectively remain unsolved. The number of rape cases registered in 2016 was 2,155, of which 291 were unsolved, while there were 4,165 molestation cases of which[Read More…]
Central Delhi worst affected by traffic snarls: Govt
Coal scam: Court grants bail to ex-coal secretary, others in Delhi
The former coal secretary H C Gupta was granted bail on Tuesday by a special court in Delhi in link with a case related to alleged irregularities in allotment of a Chhattisgarh-based coal block to SKS Ispat and Power Ltd (SIPL). Apart from Gupta, who is facing trial in more[Read More…]
Questionable object found inside Red Fort
Delhi: Wanted criminal nabbed near Nehru Place; 2 cops injured in gunfire
A fierce gun battle took place between police and criminals near Nehru Place metro station in south Delhi on Monday morning following a dramatic chase. As per a report in TOI, the sources said that about 13 rounds were fired in the encounter. Notably, two policemen were injured. However, police[Read More…]
₹ 6 Lakh cash seized in Delhi-Dehradun highway
More than ₹6 lakh in cash which allegedly belongs to an RLD MLA, was seized from a vehicle on Delhi-Dehradun national highway on Sunday, Police confirmed. The cash allegedly belonged to RLD MLA from Khatoli, Kartar Singh, and was being sent to Dehradun for the February 15 Assembly elections, Police[Read More…]
Teenaged girl mistakenly boarded train to capital; kidnapped, raped and sold in Delhi
A teenage girl who mistakenly arrived in Delhi from Chhattisgarh after boarding a wrong train was kidnapped, raped and sold in the capital before finally being rescued by the Delhi Commission for Women. Notably, two people have been detained in link with the trafficking of the girl. The 15-years-old was[Read More…]
Jat quota protest extends to Delhi
Building collapses in Connaught place
On Thursday, a part of a building in Connaught Place collapsed. This sudden accident raises questions on safety in Delhi’s most favourite and crowded destination. The incident took place on the first floor of C-Block above the popular Jain Book Depot where a wall and the roof collapsed. “The fire[Read More…]
Rashtrapati Bhavan’s accounts section catches fire
Landlords in Delhi booked over tenant verification
South Delhi Police are checking on landlords who do not comply with tenant verification rules. As per reports over 174 FIRs have been registered against such landlords under section 188 IPC so far and the drive is likely to continue in the coming weeks. The maximum offenders were booked from[Read More…]
Students in Delhi hang bras in protest
On Tuesday, opposing the disqualification of the theatre society of Kamla Nehru College (KNC): Lakshya, student members of Pinjra Tod, a feminist collective raised voice against gender-based discrimination. In solidarity with the KNC students, they gathered inside the Shri Ram Centre for what they called ‘An Ode to Bra, Panty[Read More…]
Supreme court lawyer ‘manhandled’ in Delhi
An apex court lawyer, Aman Pawar, and legal affairs in-charge of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee was allegedly “manhandled” in south Delhi’s Shahpur Jat after he tried to stop five youths, who were drinking in public and eve teasing women. Police said the accused were sitting in two cars at[Read More…]
Woman raped in a moving car in Delhi
A 21-year-old woman has been allegedly raped her “friend” and “molested by two others”, on Monday night inside a moving car in southeast Delhi’s Amar Colony. The victim is a resident of Jharkhand and had lodged a case was and all the accused were arrested from their residences. They were[Read More…]
Delhi woman smashed to death in a public park
A woman was allegedly crushed to death with a stone in a public park in Mangolpuri area, New Delhi on Monday night. The deceased has been identified 30-year-old Aarti who got married just a month back. According to Indian Express reports, Aarti’s body was found in a public park in[Read More…]
DU to launch an application for attendance
The process of tracking attendance of students at Delhi University is ready to be digitalized as the university is planning to launch a mobile application for the purpose. The university had last year set up a seven-member committee, which has been working on a mobile application to ensure accountability and[Read More…]
Mortar shell found near Vasant Kunj area of Delhi
Two days after the Republic Day celebrations in the national capital, a mortar shell was found lying in Kishan Garh village near Vasant Kunj area of Delhi on Saturday. While acting on a tip off, the police from Vasant Kunj police station found a suspicious object in a dustbin (in[Read More…]
‘Raees’ on rail: SRK talks about modern-day romance and lot more during his train ride to Delhi
Shah Rukh Khan’s upcoming film ‘Raees’ is all set to hit the theaters in couple of days. Thus the actor is leaving no stone unturned to make it a success. In a bid to promote the film, the team of ‘Raees’ made their way to Delhi by August Kranti Express[Read More…]