Rescue operation underway at Mustafabad in Delhi. (Screengrab) | Photo Credit: ANI A building collapsed in the Mustafabad area of Delhi in the early hours of Saturday (April 19, 2025), with several people feared trapped under the debris, officials said. According to officials, teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Delhi Police have … Read more
Rekha Gupta, a first-time BJP MLA from Shalimar Bagh, will take oath as the Chief Minister of Delhi today, marking a historic day for the party as it returns to power in the national capital after 27 years. She will be the fourth woman Chief Minister of Delhi after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit and Atishi. … Read more
The minimum temperature in Delhi settled three notches below the season’s average at 4.9° Celsius. File | Photo Credit: PTI The minimum temperature in Delhi settled three notches below the season’s average at 4.9° Celsius on Sunday (December 15, 2024), the Met office said. On Thursday, the national capital recorded the lowest temperature of this … Read more
A man sets fire to the stubble at a farm, in Patiala on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Farm fires in Punjab, often blamed for the rise in Delhi’s air pollution, have gone down by 50% since last year in the post-harvest period, with little effect on the air quality in the national capital. From … Read more
A view of India Gate covered in a layer of smog in New Delhi. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI The air quality in the national capital improved on Saturday (October 26, 2024) morning due to favourable winds even though the Air Quality Index (AQI) remained in the ‘poor’ category. Also read: Air pollution 8 … Read more
Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj interacts with Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Derek O’Brien during a ‘dharna’ staged by the latter with other TMC leaders at Mandir Marg police station, in New Delhi, on April 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who were detained by Delhi Police while staging a … Read more
On the morning of July 19, the same day that a video clip of the sexual assault on women in Manipur went viral and shook the country, social media threw up another series of disturbing images. Except these were from a middle-class neighbourhood in Delhi, and featured a couple, the woman in pilot’s uniform, being … Read more
New Delhi: Crooks claiming to be from “Maharashtra narcotics division” duped a Delhi doctor of her savings of Rs 4.47 crore, in what is being seen as the biggest cyber con job on an individual in Delhi till date. The 34-year-old woman was told there was a large quantity of the drug “MDMA” detected in … Read more
Stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana contributed 6 per cent to the air pollution in Delhi-NCR on Thursday, data put out by the central government’s SAFAR website show. A day earlier, this share was just 1 per cent, and had been 3 per cent each on the previous three days. The increase on Thursday coincided … Read more