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MV Act: Transport bodies to observe 1-day strike

2 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Commuters may face hardships in the national capital on Thursday as transport bodies have given a one-day token strike call against various provisions of the amended Motor Vehicle (MV) Act, including steep hike in penalties for various traffic related offences...

Transport strike: Many schools to remain shut

2 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Many schools in the national capital will remain closed on Thursday as a transport body, comprising 41 associations and unions, has called for a one-day token strike against various provisions of the amended Motor Vehicles (MV) Act...

HC restrains school from expelling EWS students

4 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The Delhi high court on Wednesday restrained Air Force Bal Bharti School from striking off names of 10 EWS category students of class IX for non payment of tuition fees and other charges...

Missing elephant found in Delhi after 2 months

10 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A countrywide alert was issued to trace the 47-year-old elephant, called Laxmi when she went missing two months ago. The pachyderm belongs to a Shakarpur family who fell short of proper arrangements and were issued a notice by the forest department but mahout, Saddam fled with the elephant upon forest department team's arrival. Laxmi was traced on Wednesday...

Ghaziabad’s air quality best in two years

12 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The city’s air quality has so far been the best in two years. Yes, in Ghaziabad, which was tagged as the most polluted in the country for the past two years, the average air pollution level in the first eight months of this year has been the lowest as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, data shows...

Safarnama: Interactive app for Delhi launched

5 hours ago

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When minister found Khan Mkt apples 'too shiny'

14 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A fruit shop in posh Khan Market in south Delhi is facing the music after Union consumer affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan found that apples bought from the shop had extra layers of wax to make it look more fresh and "extra shiny"...

Bizman shot dead by robbers in northeast Delhi

17 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The murder of businessman Rajul Gupta took place within just 20 seconds. It was his teenaged daughter who heard his calls for help and alerted the other family members, but by the time they stepped out the assailants had fled...

Wait for bird’s eye view of Delhi gets longer

18 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The observatory deck on the top of the pylon of the iconic Signature Bridge, which promises to give a bird’s eye view of the city, is unlikely to be opened to the public before the end of this year...

Medical college gets NCW notice over dress code

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The National Commission for Women on Tuesday issued a show cause notice to a medical college in the city for reportedly setting a dress code within the hostel and campus for girls pursuing MBBS, asking authorities to explain their stand on the "sexist" rules...

60-year-old woman held with 36 grams of heroin

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 60-year-old woman was arrested with 36 grams of heroin on Tuesday in Delhi, police said...

Businessman, 44, shot in Delhi's Jyoti Nagar

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

New Delhi, Sep 17 () A 44-year-old businessman was shot dead allegedly by two unidentified bike-borne assailants after a scuffle broke out between them in northeast Delhi's Jyoti Nagar area, police said on Tuesday...

BJP plans rath yatra for people connect in Delhi

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Months before the assembly elections, Delhi BJP has planned a rath yatra across all 70 assembly constituencies in the capital to feel the pulse of Delhiites...

2024 target: Delhi needs 5 lakh new e-vehicles

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

To meet Delhi’s draft electric vehicle policy target of 25% share for electric vehicles (EVs) in new registrations by 2024, Delhi will need to register approximately five lakh new EVs in the next five years, a new report says...

Plea in NGT against move to bring back odd-even

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A plea was filed in the National Green Tribunal on Monday challenging the AAP government’s decision to re-launch in November 4-15 the odd-even road rationing scheme..

Disguise 'artist’ involved in travel racket held

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

As many as 10 people may have travelled abroad using the same modus operandi as Jayesh Patel, the 32-year-old from Gujarat caught last week at IGI airport while trying to fly to New York disguised as an 81-year-old man named Amrik Singh...

Delhi CM seeks forgiveness from those he 'hurt'

2 days ago

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Dengue menace: Kejriwal reaches out to Centre

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Passenger on Metro track, Yellow line services hit

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Services on a section of Delhi Metro's Yellow line were briefly affected on Monday due to a passenger on track of GTB Nagar metro station, officials said...

Ggn: Youth stabbed to death, 3 friends thrashed

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 17-year-old youth died after he was allegedly stabbed multiple times in the neck and three of his friends were injured in Jharsa village when an altercation with a family of four turned ugly...

Gang cuts open ATM cash box, flees with Rs 3.5L

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

In the second such incident within a week, a gang of thieves managed to cut through an ATM in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur and made away with approximately Rs 3.5 lakh. The thieves reportedly used gas cutters to break open the machine...

Man arrested for shooting at woman in Delhi

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly shooting at a woman when she tried to stop a fight between him and his wife in outer Delhi's Narela area, police said on Sunday...

Ggn: Roads in DLF 1 and 2 get LED lights

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

After years of complaints about safety along unlit stretches of DLF 1 and 2, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) started installing streetlights across both localities on Saturday. More than 30,000 people live in the two areas...

Delhi school tops government school rankings

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A national capital school has topped the rankings for government day schools in the country, while two others have made it to the first 10 in the report released by an education portal, a statement from Delhi government said on Saturday...

CISF to get more women cops at metro stations

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Soon, you may find women cops guarding the ‘morchas’ (fortified boxes) at the metro stations in Delhi. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is planning to considerably increase the number of women personnel deployed at the metro stations in challenging roles...

Delhi: Traffic offenders rush to lok adalats

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Traffic offenders expecting to be slapped with huge fines under the amended Motor Vehicles Act were glad to be let off with lower ones at lok adalats convened at six district courts here on Saturday. This was the first time the special courts were convened after the new fines were introduced. An amount of Rs 16.9 lakh was collected on Saturday...

2 held at IGI for smuggling gold worth Rs 1 cr

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Two Myanmarese women were arrested at the Delhi airport upon their arrival from Thailand for allegedly smuggling gold jewellery worth over Rs 1 crore, customs officials said on Saturday...

3 hurt as car hits street light in east Delhi

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Three people were injured after a car they were travelling in lost control and hit a street light in East Delhi's Mayur Vihar area, police said on Saturday...

13 Delhi border toll points go cashless

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

With the deadline for cashless RFID-based toll tax collection all set for the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, the city is expected to feel the initial hiccups along with border congestion and traffic jams...

Journalist booked for filming Noida cops’ spat

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A video journalist who had spotted an altercation between a group of people and policemen, and instinctively proceeded to film the incident, was slapped with charges like rioting and confined to a Noida police station overnight...

2 Amity University students die in road accident

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Two students of Amity University were killed and three others injured when the car they were travelling in rolled over to the other lane on the Yamuna Expressway after hitting a divider near zero point on Friday...

Del: For 5th time in a week, gang war kills youth

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

In the fifth such incident within a week, a gang war broke out in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura where a 26-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Friday night...

DMRC's Rithala-Bawana-Narela corridor soon: Puri

5 days ago

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After Rs 1.4L challan, truck fined Rs 2L in Delhi

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Breaking the “record” created by a heavy goods vehicle, which attracted a challan of Rs 1.4 lakh in the capital last week, a truck overloaded with construction material was fined more than Rs 2 lakh by the transport department’s enforcement wing on Wednesday night...

Use only treated water in parks or pay fine: NGT

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The National Green Tribunal has asked Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and park-owning agencies like Delhi Development Authority, Public Works Department (PWD) and the three municipal corporations to mandatorily use treated water at all parks located within 5 kilometre radius of sewage treatment plants (STPs). This is aimed at checking waste of treated water...

DUSU polling rate dips, many 1st-timers queue up

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections, which were held on Thursday, saw three students being caught for election fraud at Kirori Mal College, while some candidates complained of faults in the electronic voting machines at Aryabhatta College. The polls didn’t take place at Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Bharati and Rajdhani colleges this year...

Man shoots self over daughter's 'female friend'

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 60-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in Farsh Bazar area in Delhi's Shahdara after a fight with his daughter who wanted to move in with another woman, police said on Thursday...

Overspeeding, crowded vans under court scanner

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The court said overspeeding of school buses, packed with children, is a common sight till date despite the Supreme Court's 1997 guidelines for their safe plying...

AAP accuses BJP of having anti-Dalit mentality

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Accusing the BJP of having an "anti-Dalit" mentality, the AAP on Thursday claimed that while the saffron party was pushing for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, it was behind the demolition of the Ravidas temple here. No immediate response was available from the BJP on the issue...

Deposit Rs 3.7k cr, SC tells Amrapali homebuyers

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

With NBCC facing “tremendous financial crunch” in completing the unfinished housing projects of the Amrapali Group, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all the homebuyers to deposit the amount due from them for construction of the flats...

Teen offered better job, gang-raped in Delhi

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by two men in Moti Nagar on Tuesday. The minor, who is from West Bengal, works as a household help in Delhi...

2 held for sexually assaulting minor in Delhi

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl from West Bengal on the pretext of providing job in west Delhi's Moti Nagar area, police said on Wednesday...

Delhi: NGT directs DJB to stop water wastage

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Noting that several housing societies were misusing the AAP government's scheme of providing 20,000 litres of water each month free of cost, the National Green Tribunal Wednesday directed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to take effective steps to prevent wastage of water...

Gzb: This Navratri, feasts only in steel utensils

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

This time during Navratri and Durga Puja, event organisers will have to serve food to their guests only in steel utensils. The order was issued after a directive came from the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) that also prepared a standard operating procedure (SOP) with an aim to start a “Bartan Bank” or utensil bank for such festivities...

Delhi: 31.6L cars, but parking space for only 94k

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

At a time when the Supreme Court is laying emphasis on adequate parking through space management in residential neighbourhoods, among other steps, the ground situation isn’t encouraging. The four municipal bodies in Delhi have place for 94,000 vehicles in 434 surface, stack and multilevel parking lots, besides space for a few thousand in 103 Delhi Metro stations, but the city has 31.6 lakh four-wheelers alone among 75 lakh registered and active vehicles...

Wife, lover kill man in front of child in Delhi

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 24-year-old man was strangled by his wife and her lover in front of his year-old daughter in northwest Delhi's Samaypur Badli...

Soon, Delhi Metro card to pay for parking too

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

You can already use your Delhi Metro smartcard to pay bus fares. It may soon be swiped for parking too. The proposal was discussed in a meeting convened on Tuesday by the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA)...

Delhi registers 202 malaria cases this year

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Nearly 50 cases of malaria have been reported in the first week of September taking the total number of people affected by it in the national capital this year to over 200, according to the latest municipal report...

Safdarjung Airport to Safdarjung Playfields?

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

While the green lungs — created first by the British and, then, by Delhi’s planners of the early 1960s — still hold firm on the landscape, open green recreational areas are running out of space. Hence the suggestion that the Safdarjung Airport which stopped the flying of fixed-wing aircraft several decades ago, should be converted into an open public space...

Landfill: Indore model is guiding light for Delhi

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

With the Indore model of flattening a landfill as the guiding light, work at Okhla, Ghazipur and Bhalswa will begin from October 1 — in accordance with the deadline set by NGT...

Del: 32-yr-old turns up as 81-yr-old to fly to NY

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

He is 32 years old, but dressed up as 81-year-old Amrik Singh with dyed white beard and a turban to board a flight to New York from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport...

Delhi’s mountains of shame to be flattened

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Unable to deal with Delhi’s mountains of shame — at Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla — for years, the three corporations have come under sustained fire from National Green Tribunal. On NGT’s orders, the civic bodies are now pushing ahead with a bioremediation and biomining plan to reduce the heights of the three landfills...

Counting for DUSU polls on September 13

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Counting for the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) polls will be held on September 13, a day after the elections are held, officials said on Monday...

Six held for robbery in west Delhi

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Six men were arrested for allegedly robbing a house in west Delhi's Naraina Vihar. The incident was first reported by TOI on Sunday. Senior police officers said that the accused, identified as Kasim, Mohammad Razi, Balkrishan, Fardeen Siddiqui, Mamoon Ahmed and Tasleem were arrested with the looted jewellery and cash. The gang had been working in the house after being hired for renovation work by the victim, a 58-year-old woman...

Results withheld, but Left celebrates at JNU

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The stay on declaration of the student union poll results in Jawaharlal Nehru University by Delhi high court remains in place. However, the campus echoed with joy and celebration as the vote-counting trend declared by the university election committee showed the left-unity panel ahead in all four posts...

With no alternatives, Delhi clutches at straws

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Make no mistake, our cumulative efforts to curb the menace of single-use plastic are just scratching the surface. And while carrybags have been the focus of much of the current discourse — simply because they are the most visible form of threat — a number of other single-use plastic items have remained under the radar...

JNUSU poll counting of ballots completed

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union election committee completed the counting of ballots at 9 pm on Sunday...

Delhi: Man shot dead by unidentified assailants

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A man was shot dead early on Sunday in Narela area in Delhi, police said...

Karol Bagh hotel fire case: Crucial files missing

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Several files related to the Hotel Arpit fire, which had claimed 17 lives this February, have allegedly gone missing...

DDA starts survey for housing society revamp

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Delhi Development Authority has started a survey for the redevelopment of cooperative group housing societies (CGHS), many of which are four decades old...

Del to launch campaign against single-use plastic

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A major awareness campaign is likely to be launched throughout the capital by mid-September to discourage people from using single-use plastic, a major source of pollution...

Man held for sexually assaulting his daughters

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his two minor daughters in Sohna area, police said on Saturday...

Delhi: Fire breaks out at Punjabi Bagh godown

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The fire department received information at 4.57 pm, following which 10 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, according to a senior official. No one has been injured and the rescue operation is on, the officials said...

Delhi: RFID tech soon at 10 more entry points

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

In what is being touted as the second phase of the ambitious technology-based infrastructure being set up at the city’s borders for collection of toll tax, RFID tag readers will now be installed at 10 more border points. Currently, RFID cameras and booms have been set up at 13 of the busiest border points of Delhi...

Light rain, high humidity likely in Delhi today

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Hot and humid weather conditions continued in Delhi on Friday as well. And according to the local MeT office, no relief is predicted anytime soon. The humidity level shot up to 88% during the daytime, while the minimum humidity level recorded was 56%...

UP: Mathura youth beaten to death in Noida

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 24-year-old youth, who hailed from Mathura’s Nera village, was allegedly beaten to death by a group of youths in Noida, where he was working in a private firm...

Rebel AAP MLA Alka Lamba set to join Congress

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Chandni Chowk Alka Lamba had announced her resignation from the party earlier in the day on Friday. She will be joining Congress on Friday in the presence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. Lamba's relationship with AAP witnessed several flashpoints in the past few months including her conducting a public referendum in her constituency...

Drink water from cupped hands, use datun: Lekhi

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi has suggested going back to green Indian habits of drinking water from cupped hands and using "datun" or neem twig to brush teeth to cut down on plastic use...

Del: Special teams turn heroes for missing kids

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

After his house in Gopalganj in Bihar was washed away in the floods, 12-yearold Ashu took refuge in a train. Little did he realise that the train would bring him to Delhi...

Delhi zoo's last cape buffalo dies; probe on

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The Delhi zoo on Thursday ordered an inquiry after its last cape buffalo died allegedly due to the consumption of a plastic bag...

Sonia calls meeting of ex-party chiefs of Delhi

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

With just five months left for the Assembly elections in the national capital, Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of former city unit chiefs on Thursday evening to discuss the leadership issue as the party has been left headless after the death of former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, party sources said...

JNU debates Amazon fire, hygiene ahead of poll

13 days ago

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Heritage tag: Delhi hopes to be 2nd time lucky

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Delhi government on Wednesday approved the start of the process to get Delhi the Unesco World Heritage City tag.Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia called a meeting of all the stakeholders and asked the departments concerned to prepare the proposal again, a source said...

Delhi: Free Wi-Fi at bus stops, markets by Dec

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The Public Works Department will finally start putting into place the free Wi-Fi network across the city from Thursday, having finally got the budget approved by Delhi government for the much-publicised project. Free Wi-Fi will be available at 11,000 sites in the capital by the end of the year, with an individual eligible for 15GB of data per month at these hotspots...

SHO removed as woman says tortured in Ggn

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Police removed the SHO of DLF 1 police station, suspended two women cops and ordered an inquiry into allegations by a 30-year-old woman that she was detained there for nine hours, stripped and tortured while being questioned in a burglary case...

Ghaziabad: Drunk man shoots wife in UP's Loni

14 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A property dealer was arrested for allegedly shooting his 30-year-old wife over an argument at Loni in UP's Ghaziabad early on Wednesday...

Gzb: Building plan approval system to go online

14 days ago

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MVA: Delhi sees drastic fall in traffic challans

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AIIMS finds high toxin levels in 16% of patients

17 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

When doctors at AIIMS decided to run tests for environmental toxins on patients with serious illnesses whose cause couldn't be established, they were shocked by the results. Of 216 patients tested, 32 (16%) had high levels of dangerous metals and substances, including arsenic, lead, chromium, fluoride, iron and cadmium...

DMRC to take over reins of Rapid Metro in Ggn

17 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation (HMRTC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with DMRC to keep the Rapid Metro corridor operational...

United Left wins all 4 key posts in JNUSU polls

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The united front of Left student groups AISA, SFI, AISF, DSF won all the four central panel posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) polls, the election committee announced on Tuesday...

Gurugram: 54-yr-old sexually abuses minor, held

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2 held for posting photos with weapons: Police

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Two men were arrested from Sagarpur area in the national capital after they posted their photos and videos brandishing sophisticated weapons on various social media sites to threaten their targets and extort money, police said on Tuesday...

Man found hanging from tree at Noida stadium

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 28-year-old “jobless” man was found hanging from a tree in Noida stadium on Monday morning. Prima facie, police suspect it to be a case of suicide...

SDMC retires 16 officials for poor show

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Acting against corrupt and non-performing officials, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation used compulsory retirement provisions to remove 16 of them...

Hot food on the move for reserve force in Delhi

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Despite long working hours and a difficult job profile, the cops from Reserve Police units in Delhi don’t often get their due...

Inside this forest, a factory arming Delhi gangs

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Trailing a group of gunrunners supplying weapons to city-based gangs, Delhi Police’s Crime Branch managed to reach a manufacturing unit in the jungles of Bharatpur in Rajasthan...

Delhi zoo irregularities: CZA reviews ATRs

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Delhi

The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) on Monday reviewed the recommendations of a five-member high-level committee that flagged irregularities in the Delhi zoo during the tenure of its previous director, and action taken reports...

Forgery case: Delhi: Make-up artist arrested

2 days ago

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Assault case: HC grants bail to AAP MLA Som Dutt

2 days ago

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