New Delhi: Several roads near the airport, AIIMS, Connaught Place and Anand Vihar were inundated Friday, forcing many to wade through flooded stretches and traffic to crawl at several key points.The downpour once again exposed the capital’s drainage woes, with the airport corridor being among the worst affected stretches. Waterlogging was reported at Terminal 3…
New Delhi: A 35-year-old truck driver was killed after the Eicher truck he was driving rammed a dumper on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway in northeast Delhi’s Khajuri Khas early Friday, police said. The dumper driver fled the spot after the accident.The deceased was identified as Anshul, a resident of Jind, Haryana. Police received information about the…
New Delhi: A court has dismissed the interim bail plea of Flourish Stay owner Lokesh Bajaj, accused in the June 3 Malviya Nagar hotel fire that claimed 23 lives. The court rejected Bajaj’s plea for four weeks’ bail on the ground of his deteriorating health.Principal district and sessions judge Samar Vishal said there was no…
New Delhi: Two men, including the son of a Delhi Police personnel, were allegedly assaulted and abducted by a group travelling in three vehicles near Shiv Shankar Chowk in Wazirpur village. A case has been registered.Police said a PCR call was received on Sept 3. Complainant Udit Kumar, 26, told police that he and his…
New Delhi: Family members of 42-year-old property dealer Pramod Dahiya, who was shot dead outside a gym in Narela on Thursday, staged a sit-in and blocked the road on Friday.Around 12.30 pm, Dahiya’s family members, along with acquaintances and hundreds of people from Nahri village, gathered on the Narela-Lampur Road to protest the killing. The…
New Delhi: Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has found substantial quantities of refuse-derived fuel (RDF), inert material, and construction and demolition (C&D) waste dumped at multiple locations along the boundary wall of NTPC Eco Park, around 2km from the Yamuna, in southeast Delhi’s Badarpur.Officials were informed that the agencies concerned had an agreement with NTPC…
Nishu Azad clarified remarks about “Modi ji ki 13vi”, stating she read text from a board. NEW DELHI: CJP protester Nishu Azad on Friday clarified her earlier remarks in a video referring to “Modi ji ki terahvi”, saying she was reading text written on a board in the background and that the remarks did not…
NEW DELHI: Influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj had amassed a significant social media following through provocative posts, displays of political proximity and controversial statements long before a video of him allegedly boasting about assaulting a protester’s father at Jantar Mantar went viral.Bhardwaj, who describes himself as a “Sanatani Yodha”, was detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on Friday,…
Chirag Paswan (R) has now distanced himself from Bhardwaj’s (L) invocation of his name, saying that it was misused and that he had consequently filed a complaint. NEW DELHI: Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan has filed an official complaint against Swatantra Bharadwaj over the latter’s remarks in a podcast…
Police have handed over the man to the Embassy of Nepal (Image-Delhi Police) NEW DELHI: Timely intervention by Delhi Police helped rescue a 24-year-old Nepalese man who allegedly attempted suicide at a park in Defence Colony, officials said on Friday.According to sources, the man had been wandering around south Delhi for the past four days…
