A BLO waits outside a family’s home to verify family details during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in New Delhi. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: From hostile residents and shifting households to flooded lanes and tight deadlines, booth-level officers (BLOs) engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Delhi’s electoral rolls say the exercise has become…
New Delhi: Sports Injury Centre (SIC) at Safdarjung Hospital and the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Friday signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen sports medicine, injury management and research for Indian athletes.The partnership will combine SIC’s clinical expertise with SAI’s nationwide athlete network to provide integrated care covering injury prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has cancelled the day-to-day proceedings in the Shraddha Walkar murder case scheduled for July 20 after the accused, Aaftab Amin Poonawala, informed it that he would be appearing for his final MA Sociology examination at Tihar Jail that afternoon.Additional Sessions Judge Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi noted that Poonawala’s examinations, conducted by…
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The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea to stay the conviction of MLA Rajendra Bharti NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday refused to suspend the conviction of disqualified Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti in a cheating case linked to the alleged forgery of bank records to secure illegal interest payments between…
The Delhi court has greenlit the cancellation of proceedings on July 20, permitting Aaftab Poonawala, the accused, to sit for his final MA exam NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has allowed the cancellation of proceedings the Shraddha Walkar murder case scheduled for July 20 after accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala informed the court that he would…
NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old boy drowned in a waterlogged vacant plot in outer Delhi’s Samaypur Badli Thursday morning.Rehan was a Class III student and his family has been living in the area for around nine years. According to police, Rehan and his five-year-old brother had gone to the plot in Sanjay Colony around 8.30am to…
Free bus travel in Delhi to go fully digital NEW DELHI: Women commuters in Delhi will have to carry the newly introduced Pink Saheli smart card to continue availing free travel on bus service from August 1, with the government set to phase out the existing paper-based pink tickets.The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Friday…
NEW DELHI: Cloud-laden skies blanketed Delhi on Friday morning as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a yellow alert for thunderstorms and rain, a day after heavy showers lashed the national capital.According to the IMD, the city received moderate rainfall over the past 24 hours, with Safdarjung, Delhi’s base weather station, recording 33.6 mm of…
Thursday offered a rare sight for a city that spends much of the year battling hazardous air pollution, and a rarer statistic. Delhi’s air quality slipped into the “good” category for the first time in nearly three years, giving residents a fleeting sense of what it actually feels like to breathe clean air.The continuous monsoon…
