Air quality ‘very poor’ in Delhi post Deepavali
One monitoring station is “severe”, while rest of the 35 stations for which data is available showing ‘very poor’ Air Quality Index The air quality of Delhi on Monday morning…
DU defers decision to accept eminence tag
Scheme will result in increased privatisation of university: DUTA The decision to accept the Institute of Eminence (IOE) status for Delhi University was deferred at a meeting of the Executive…
The ordeal after the traffic challan
Being issued a traffic challan is harrowing, but a trip to the courts to settle the fine can be even more distressing despite attempts by authorities to make the process…
Dalit inmates at Tihar on hunger strike
They were denied permission to observe Valmiki Jayanti Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and scores of Dalits lodged in Tihar Central Jail on Sunday sat on a hunger strike protesting…
Delhi’s air quality slips to ‘very poor’ category
We need to do a lot in Delhi and we are trying, says Delhi Chief Minister Ahead of the Graded Response Action Plan that is scheduled to kick-in on October…
Noida woman accuses delivery agent of rape bid, later wants FIR quashed
The accused delivery agent, he said, reached the police station when he was summoned. Noida: A 30-year-old delivery agent associated to an e-commerce firm was booked by police in Noida…
Annual Ganges river dolphin census begins
New method likely to yield more accurate count of the endangered species The annual Ganges river dolphin census, undertaken by World Wide Fund for Nature-India in collaboration with the Uttar…
Modi-Hasina meeting today, NRC to take centre stage
On Thursday, Hasina said she was satisfied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assurance on NRC. New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is on a four-day visit to India…
3 more charged with raping Unnao survivor after Kuldeep Singh Sengar
According to the charge sheet, the three had allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped the woman a week after the June 4 incident. New Delhi: The CBI Thursday filed a charge sheet…
FIR against Mani Ratnam, Aparna Sen and others for open letter to PM on lynching
Case was lodged after an order was passed by Chief Magistrate Surya Tiwari months ago on a petition filed by Sudhir Kumar Ojha. Muzaffarpur: An FIR (First Information Report) was…