Delhi

A 70-year-old man allegedly attempted suicide on Monday by jumping in front of a metro train in Dwarka, police said. The incident took place at around 10.50 am at Dwarka Sector 9, they said, adding Metro services were briefly delayed. He was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Mohammed Ali, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Metro) said. The man identified as ...

Employees of cash-strapped Jet Airways Saturday protested outside Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport here seeking release of pending salaries. The beleaguered airline, which is flying just six-seven aircraft on Saturday, has asked its lenders to grant some “interim funding”. Its employees are expecting to be paid their pending salaries once the fresh funding comes through. Employees of ...

The peak power demand in the national capital is likely to cross the 7,400 MW mark this summer, a power discom spokesperson said on Friday. The peak power demand last summer breached the 7,000 MW mark for the first time and reached 7,016 MW in July 2018. Noting that Delhi’s peak power demand is substantially higher than that of other ...

A woman in Delhi, Sonia gave one lakh rupees ransom to goons in return for killing her parents. Sonia and her lover Prince had killed the couple with the help of the goons of them and threw dead bodies in a briefcase. Sonia and Prince are currently lodged in Tihar jail and the police are searching for absconding accused. Senior ...

The Delhi Cabinet Friday approved recommendations of a fare revision committee to hike auto-rickshaw tariffs by Rs 1.50 per kilometre. The meter-down charge of Rs 25 per two kilometre has also been revised by the committee to Rs 25 for 1.5 kilometre, said Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot. The revised charges will be implemented after the Transport Department’s notification, Gahlot said. ...

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to grant full statehood status to Delhi, an issue that the ruling AAP is expected to raise in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls in an emphatic manner. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Tuesday said it will hold a door-to-door campaign to tell people how the BJP had ...

Over 700 cases of swine flu have been recorded in Delhi in the last 10 days, taking the total number of people affected by the HINI virus in the city this year to 1,965, according to a senior official. According to a report of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the death toll due to swine flu in Delhi ...

The Supreme Court Thursday delivered a split verdict on the contentious issue of control of services in the National Capital Territory in the tussle between the Delhi government and the Centre and referred the matter to a larger bench A two-judge bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, however, agreed on their views on disputes pertaining to the ...

At least 17 people were killed as a massive fire swept through a hotel in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh area early Tuesday, police said. The fire broke out at Arpit Palace Hotel located on Gurudwara Road in Karol Bagh. A call about the fire was received at 4.35 am and 24 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, a senior ...

You must heard the true incidents of reunion of children in the Kumbh Mela, and such stories will also be seen in the movies, but the dense fog can also divide the two brothers, even for the whole 10 years. You would be surprised to know this, but this complete 100 percent is true. A case of brothers being separated ...