New Delhi: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Monday arrested a woman from Jama Masjid metro station with two cartridges. This is for the first time that a woman has been arrested with cartridges at a metro station. Delhi police spokesperson told IANS, “Two 315 bore cartridges have been recovered from a woman who was […]
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Gudiya’s rape ‘exceptional depravity, extreme brutality’: 2 convicted
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday while convicting two men — Manoj and Pradeep — in the 2013 Gudiya gang rape case held that the crime committed was “most grotesque” and the “collective conscience of the community was shaken”. “In our society the minor girls are worshipped as goddess on certain occasions but in […]
20 Delhi-bound trains delayed due to fog
New Delhi: At least 20 Delhi-bound trains were delayed due to fog in several parts of Northern India, railway officials said on Saturday. A senior Northern Railway official said that Puri-New Delhi Purushottan Express and Sealdah-Amritsar Express were running behind schedule by 5 hours. Even Varanasi-New Delhi Kashi Vishwanath Express and Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express […]
Fresh faces? BJP gambles in Delhi by repackaging old hands
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming Delhi polls, giving chance to very few newbies and mostly reviving the career of old timers who have been away from electoral politics, and projecting them as new faces to fight the elections in the national capital. […]
Delhi Police chief given powers to exercise NSA for 3 months
New Delhi: Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal has given city Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik to exercise the powers of detaining authority under the stringent National Security Act for three months. In a notification dated January 10, the Lt Governor said: “Whereas the Lt Governor of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is satisfied that it is […]
Congress eyes Shaheen Bagh route to make comeback in Delhi
New Delhi: With Shaheen Bagh becoming an epicentre of anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests and scores of politicians making a beeline to express solidarity with the protesters there, the Congress is eyeing a comeback on Delhi Assembly seats with considerable Muslim voters by riding on the protest wave. Okhla, Seelampur, Matia Mahal, Ballimaran, Mustafabad and Chandni Chowk […]
Delhi BJP has sought damages of 500 cr from AAP for using videos of Manoj Tiwari
New Delhi: The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has slapped a Rs 500 crore defamation notice on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for tweeting state BJP chief Manoj Tiwari’s edited video with the AAP poll theme song ‘Lage raho Kejriwal’. The BJP has also filed a complaint with the Election Commission. The […]
Deadly fires claim 48 lives so far in Delhi
New Delhi: December of 2019 was the deadliest month in five years for the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), according to officials in the department. The figures available with the fire service show that 2,437 distress calls were received in December. In addition to this, a total 603 distress calls were received at the fire services’ control […]
Nirbhaya rapists to be hanged on January 22, orders Delhi Court
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday issued death warrants against all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case with the convicts to be hanged on January 22. Patiala House Court Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora while issuing the death warrants directed the convicts to be hanged on January 22 at […]
Survey spells trouble for BJP at municipality too
New Delhi: Results of the IANS-CVoter Delhi poll tracker have thrown up an interesting point which could rattle the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which now controls the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. A majority of the respondents who participated in the survey also indicated that given a chance, they would like to see an immediate change in […]