Delhi

A Delhi court Friday granted bail to AAP leaders Atishi and others in a defamation case filed by the BJP against them for their remarks over deletion of voters’ names from electoral rolls in the city. AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Gupta, MLA Manoj Kumar were also granted relief on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 each after the ...

It was a warm Tuesday morning in the national capital, with partly cloudy skies, as the minimum temperature settled one notch above the season’s average at 28.7 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 39 degrees Celsius and there are chances of rain or thunderstorm in the later part of the day which may provide relief from ...

After successfully running the Electricity Half and Water Waiver scheme, the Delhi Government is going to make women travel free in metro and government buses. That is, in the coming days, women will not have to take tickets to travel in metro and buses in Delhi. If there is no technical bottleneck, the plan will be implemented within six months. ...

The national capital Monday reeled under hot and dry weather conditions, with the maximum temperature crossing the 41-degree Celsius mark. The city recorded a high of 41.9 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, and a low of 25.4 degrees Celsius, a MeT official said. Humidity levels oscillated between 16 and 62 per cent, he added. The mercury will continue its ...

The BJP which swept all the seven seats in Delhi, set new records in five constituencies where its candidates defeated their opponents with the highest margins ever. Parvesh Verma, the sitting MP from the West Delhi constituency, won a second term with a record-breaking margin of 5.78 lakh votes. The runner-up, Congress’s Mahabal Mishra, got 2,87,162 votes. Verma broke his ...

In the area of ​​Ballabhgarh police station in Sector 7, unknown person killed a female student who was alone at home by hitting her with a cricket bat on her head. She recently secured 85 percent marks in CBSE’s 12th examination. Now she was taking coaching of Civil Services Examination. The cause of the murder is not clear. Her dead ...

A teenaged boy was Friday apprehended at a metro station here for allegedly carrying five live bullets in his bag, officials said. The juvenile was held by the CISF personnel at Mayur Vihar Phase-I metro station around 4 pm after the baggage scanner detected the bullets, they said. The accused, a resident of Surajpur village in Noida, was then handed ...

Complaints about malfunctioning EVMs poured in from several places of the national capital on Sunday where voting is underway. Adarsh Gupta, a resident of Matia Mahal area, claimed that at polling booths 84, 85 and 86, electronic voting machines were not working in the morning. Aam Aadmi Party’s Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti alleged that EVMs at booths 116,117 and ...

A Mumbai-bound passenger has been apprehended at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying two live bullets in his baggage, an official said Sunday. An officer of the Central Industrial Security Force, deputed at terminal-1D of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) to scan baggages, detected bullet-like objects while checking the bag of passenger Mohd H Qureshi on Saturday, he said. ...

The weatherman Thursday forecast dust storm or Thunderstorm in the city where the minimum temperature settled at 28 degrees Celsius, five notches above season’s average. The maximum temperature later in the day is likely to be 42 degrees Celsius. The relative humidity in the morning was recorded at 58 per cent. The national capital has been reeling under scorching heat ...