New Delhi: Seeking to curb the menace of people tampering with their vehicle’s number plates — such as erasing or hiding letters and numbers using paper or plastic — to evade toll payment at the camera-based Mundka barrierless toll plaza, NHAI has urged Delhi transport department to carry out regular and sustained enforcement drives against…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has rolled out a range of austerity measures, including rationalisation of VIP and VVIP carcade sizes, virtual meetings and coordinated route planning keeping fuel conservation and reduction of expenditure in mind.Starting from the rationalisation of VIP movements, non-patrolling staff have been asked to adopt a series of measures aimed at cutting…
A massive fire broke out in the B-1 coach of the Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express, in Ratlam on Sunday. All passengers were safely evacuated, and no casualties were reported New Delhi: The fire on the Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, on Sunday has again raised concerns over how prepared Delhi’s railway stations…
New Delhi: Observing that a bank account is the very essence of an individual’s economic existence, Delhi High Court has directed a private bank to immediately defreeze the account of a city resident, holding that its continued blocking without any FIR, accusation or judicial order was “wholly arbitrary and unsustainable in law”.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday distributed bicycles to more than 500 meritorious girl students at an event in RK Puram. She also announced that all girls taking admission to Class IX in govt schools would soon receive bicycles under a new initiative aimed at promoting girls’ education.“The education of daughters is not…
New Delhi: Hypertension is increasingly affecting teenagers and young adults in India because of rising stress, obesity, poor sleep and unhealthy lifestyles, silently damaging the brain, heart and kidneys long before symptoms appear, doctors and public health experts warned on Thursday ahead of World Hypertension Day on May 17.Speaking at ‘Illness to Wellness Conference on…
23-year-old Prince was found dead at a de-addiction centre in Aman Vihar on Saturday New Delhi: A 23-year-old man was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a de-addiction centre in northwest Delhi’s Aman Vihar on Saturday morning.His family has alleged foul play and claimed that he was physically assaulted, leading to his death. However, police…
New Delhi: A day after a 21-year-old man was allegedly taken away to a jungle and murdered in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat, police have arrested a man and apprehended a minor boy in connection with the case.“Technical and local intelligence led the team to identify the accused as Virat (22), who was later arrested,” said…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Sunday announced a series of measures aimed at encouraging commuters to shift from private vehicles to public transport across Delhi-NCR, including additional train services, enhanced security deployment, expanded ticketing facilities and improved last-mile connectivity.The DMRC said it will introduce 24 additional train trips by deploying six…
Nine people rescued from smoke-filled Shahdara building (Representative image) DELHI: A late-night fire in a four-storey residential building in Delhi’s Shahdara left nine people, including women and a minor girl, hospitalised after they suffered breathing difficulties due to smoke inhalation, officials said on Sunday. According to the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), a call about the…
