NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday claimed the entire country is seething in anger against the BJP and will end its dictatorial rule on June 4, the counting day of the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a street meeting in West Delhi's Najafgarh area, he claimed the BJP would soon arrest AAP leaders such as Raghav Chaddha, Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj to crush the opposition. The AAP national convener made the comments on the day his aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested in connection

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday that he and other AAP leaders would go to the BJP headquarters on March 19 so that the prime minister can send anyone he wants to jail. The BJP is saying they will send AAP MP Raghav Chadha and Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj to jail too, he claimed at a press briefing hours after his aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested in connection with the alleged assault on his party's parliamentarian Swati Maliwal. Kejriwal, who is als

NEW DELHI: Former vice president Mohammad Hamid Ansari, former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, former deputy prime minister LK Advani and former Union minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi have cast their votes using the home voting facility, the Delhi poll body said. The office of the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Delhi on Thursday kicked off the home voting facility for elderly voters and persons with disabilities (PwDs) and it will go on till May 24. According to the data shared by the office,

After physical assault against Swati Maliwal by Kejriwal's personal secretary Bibhav Kumar, AAP has released a fresh CCTV footage of her in a bid to 'expose her.' In the fresh footage shared by AAP, the party Rajya Sabha MP could be seen engaged in an argument with the security personnel who escorted her out of the house, even as she was walking out of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence. The party shared the video clip on the platform X with a caption in Hindi reading, This video exposes

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Saturday arrested Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar in connection with Swati Maliwal assault case. Kumar was apprehended from the residence of CM Kejriwal. Delhi Police had registered a case of molestation and attempt to culpable homicide against Kumar for physically assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP, Maliwal at the CM's residence on May 13. The police had lodged an FIR under sections 308 (Attempt to commit culpable homicide), 341 (wrongful restraint

NEW DELHI: THE Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on an appeal filed by Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest and subsequent remand by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the excise policy case. A two-judge bench of the top court, led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna and comprising Justice Dipankar Datta, reserved the judgment, after hearing extensively, the submissions made by the probe agency and Kejriwal We have hear the arguments. So the judgment is reserved, said the bench.

NEW DELHI: A day after the national capital witnessed its hottest day of the season so far, with maximum temperature soaring to 42.5 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday warned Delhi to brace for the most extreme spell of heatwave conditions in the coming days. Meanwhile, on Friday, Najafgarh area recorded 47.4 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest place in the country. As many as eight stations in the city breached the 45 degrees Celsius mark as the city sizzled

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that the INDIA bloc is going to form the next government and its priority would be working on five environmental issues, including pollution in air and Yamuna river, in Delhi. India bloc is going to form the government, and it will give priority to the five issues related to environment, including air pollution, afforestation of Aravalli, reviving Yamuna Action Plan, he said. During a press conference over at DPCC office, Ramesh said that i

NEW DELHI: With just a week left before the seven Lok Sabha seats in the capital go to polls on May 25, the Delhi unit of the BJP released a charge sheet against its INDIA blocs AAP and Congress, accusing them of scams and corruption over the past two decades. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, along with other party leaders, unveiled a 40-page booklet titled Congress and AAP- Partners in Loot at the party office. No immediate response was available from AAP or Congress regarding the allegat

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) observed the National Dengue Day in the city in a bid to raise awareness among citizens about dengue prevention and control. The Public Health Department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi observed National Dengue Day to spread awareness about the disease and ways to prevent it, an MCD statement on Friday said Civic body officials highlighted that the MCD is also stepping up its efforts to combat dengue and other vector-borne diseases in the

NEW DELHI: Congress leader and partys candidate for the Lok Sabha elections from the Northeast Delhi constituency, Kanhaiya Kumar, was slapped by some unidentified people while he was campaigning in his constituency on Friday. According to the police, apart from Kanhaiya, an AAP councillor named Chhaya Sharma was also assaulted in the incident. Sharing details, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said information regarding the incident was received at 6.53 pm, the caller stating

NEW DELHI: The Delhi BJP on Friday alleged that the AAP was in a state of panic and hopelessness due to the tightening noose in the Swati Maliwal assault case. Earlier in the day, AAP leader Atishi in a press conference alleged that Maliwal, partys Rajya Sabha MP, has become the face of BJPs conspiracy to frame Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said that Atishis statement in the Maliwal incident expressed panic and hopelessness of her party. The silence of Kej

NEW DELHI: A panel constituted by AIIMS New Delhi and The Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons discussing matters pertaining to surgical requirements of children born with the disorders of sex development (DSD) has suggested that the decision for medically-necessary surgery in such cases cannot wait till the child has attained the legal age of consent. The director of AIIMS, New Delhi and the Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons together constituted a 23-membered committee comprising o

NEW DELHI: The education department on Friday issued a notification regarding the admission process to Class 11 in government schools under the Directorate of Education (DoE). With this, students residing in Delhi and seeking admission to Class 11 will soon be able to register themselves online for the academic session 2024-25. The first cycle of the admission will begin from 12 noon on May 22 and continue till 5 pm on June 7. The education department will display the list of allotted schools to

NEW DELHI: Three major fire incidents took place at different parts of the city, the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) officials said on Friday. No information regarding any injury was reported till late evening, the officials said. A big fire broke out in a factory in Kirti Nagar area of west Delhi. We received call regarding the fire at 3.37 pm from the Kirti Nagar industrial area. A total of 25 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. No injuries was reported, DFS chief Atul Garg said. Garg said that an

NEW DELHI: A special court on Friday pronounced guilty verdict for four undertrial inmates at Tihar Jail in connection with the fatal assault on fellow inmate Srikant Rama Swami in 2021, a case that had been under investigation by the CBI. The incident, which occurred on May 14, 2021, involved Swami being attacked with cricket bats by the four undertrial inmates while he was lodged in Barrack No. 4, Jail No. 2. Swami passed away during treatment at Safdarjung Hospital. Despite the severity of th

NEW DELHI: The Special Cell of the Delhi Police, in a fierce gun battle, shot down a wanted criminal who was allegedly involved in recent firing incident at a car showroom in west Delhi. We got information that Ajay alias Goli, a sharpshooter of Portugal-based gangster Himanshu Bhau will come to Khera Khurd village in outer Delhi, a senior officer said. Accordingly, a team was formed which laid a trap at a specific location. Around 11.30 pm on Thursday, Ajay was intercepted by the team while he

Its always a treat to listen to some refreshing new tunes. A switch of genres often help us find undiscovered gems that stand out among the sea of music. Discovering such projects from a pool of independent artistes, feels like finding a diamond among coal. This is what it felt like when we discovered Never Too Far, the new release by The Revisit Project (TRP). Roping in band founder and saxophonist, Abhay Sharma, for a chat revealed much about the context of the song. The song lyrically address

In 2014, the apex court of India declared transgender as the third gender, whose members could self-identify their gender and enjoy fundamental rights. This landmark judgment, although it changed things on paper, has not fundamentally changed societal perception of transgenders. This is reflected in the family relationship shown in a Deepa Mehta film. How does a mother come to terms with her son who has discovered her identity as a woman? This is the storyline of the 90-minute documentary I Am S

NEW DELHI: North West Delhi, the reserved constituency of the national capital, is all set to witness a two-cornered fight between BJP and INDIA bloc with the former replacing its sitting MP Hans Raj Hans with councellor Yogendra Chandolia while latter fielding Udit Raj, a former MP and BJP turncoat on Congress ticket. The constituencycomprising ten assembly seatsNarela, Badli, Rithala, Bawana, Mundka, Kirari, Sultanpur Majra, Nangloi Jat, Mangolpuri, and Rohinicame into existence in 2008 after

NEW DELHI: A day after the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi, issued an order stating that polling parties would stay at the polling centres on the night before the Lok Sabha elections to be held on May 25, the government school teachers association has urged the CEO to withdraw such an order, calling it harassment. Responding to the order, Ajay Veer Yadav, General Secretary of the Government School Teachers Association (GSTA), said that keeping polling parties at the polling centres

NEW DELHI: Following a case of molestation and attempt to commit culpable homicide registered against CM Arvind Kejriwals aide Bibhav Kumar on the complaint of AAP MP Swati Maliwal, Delhi Police on Friday carried out probe with Kumar, too, filing a counter-complaint. The day started with Maliwal, escorted by the police, reaching Tis Hazari court to record her statement before a magistrate about the alleged assault. As per the FIR, Maliwal alleged that Kumar slapped her at least 7-8 times as she

NEW DELHI: Four days after Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal was allegedly assaulted at the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a purported video of the incident surfaced on social media in which Maliwal could be seen arguing with a security staff at the CMs residence. The 52-second video shows Maliwal seated on a couch and shouting at a security staff when asked to leave the premises. She could be heard saying, You make me speak to DCP, SHO, I will eat your job if you try to touch me. I hav

NEW DELHI: Senior AAP leader and Delhi Minister Atishi on Friday refuted claims of assault on party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals aide Bibhav Kumar stating that it is a BJP conspiracy to frame the AAP supremo. Meanwhile, Maliwal attacked the AAP for taking a u-turn, stating that the party is under pressure from Kumar. The AAPs statement came a day after the Delhi Police registered an FIR against Bibhav Kumar, the personal assistant of Kejriwal,

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal was pounced and thrashed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals close-aide Bibhav Kumar when she visited the formers official residence on May 13, says the FIR registered by the Delhi Police. However, the AAP has refuted all the allegations and called her allegations baseless. Maliwal complained on Thursday, following which an FIR was registered under sections 308 (Attempt to commit culpable homicide), 341 (wrongful restraint), 354 (B) (Assault or us

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NEW DELHI: AAP parliamentarian Swati Maliwal on Thursday gave her statement to the Delhi Police over her physical assault by Bibhav Kumar, close aide of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, at the latters residence a few days ago. Top official sources told this newspaper that Maliwal said she was sitting at the drawing room of the CM house when Bibhav Kumar came and started abusing her without any provocation. She alleged that he slapped her, used abusive words in Hindi, and threatened to kill

NEW DELHI: In a scathing rebuke on the conduct of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), the Supreme Court on Thursday issued a criminal contempt notice against the authoritys vice-chairman, Subhasish Panda, for allowing extensive felling of trees in the southern Ridges Satbari area to construct a road from Chhattarpur to SAARC University. A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan expressed dissatisfaction over the misleading affidavit filed by Panda, highlighting the presentation

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday dissolved its Laxmi Nagar and Patel Nagar units due to some leaders indulging in anti-party activities. AAPs state coordinator, Gopal Rai, has issued a notice disbanding the units, a move triggered by the signs of rebellion shown by former MLA Nitin Tyagi, who was also leading the partys district organisation. Tyagi has been openly attacking the party for quite some time. He has been asking workers not to promote the partys poll promise of Rs 1,0

The story of Trattoria Hugo is a story of two cousins. On one of their trips, Prateek Gupta and Rachit Goil were walking the cobbled streets in the Italian countryside, when the same thought struck them both. Why not share the delicious memories they had made in Italy with their home city of Delhi? And that is what they did. Trattoria Hugo opened its doors in Hauz Khas this month in a comfortable space with an artsy look with paintings, good music for the soul, and a range of food from Italy, wh

NEW DELHI: In an alleged instance of custodial death surfacing from Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, a young man in his early twenties who was brought in for questioning as an accused in a sexual assault case on Wednesday night, allegedly died by suicide at a Noida police station on Thursday. However, the family of the deceased, identified as Yogesh Kumar, accused the local police at Chipiyan outpost under Bisrakh police station area of Greater Noida, of demanding Rs 5 lakh as bribe

NEW DELHI: Two people were killed while three others sustained injuries after a speeding BMW rammed into the e-rickshaw in which they were travelling here in Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. According to officials, the condition of the three injured is critical. Sharing details, a police officer said the accisent occured around 6 am when the ill-fated battery-operated rickshaw was on its way from the City Centre towards 12-22 Chowk. Five people, including the driver, wer

NEW DELHI: Two days after the education department issued an official notification cancelling the candidature of six nominated principals who failed to get their documents verified within the stipulated time period, the department issued another notification on Thursday cancelling the nomination of another candidate for similar reasons. According to the orders, candidate Yogendra Singh was directed to appear for document verification on March 10, 2023 and was nominated by the UPSC for the post o

NEW DELHI: In what appears to be a story lifted straight from a Bollywood flick, a man who had served the Indian Army for 18 long years, only to be later dismissed from the force over allegations of theft, began cheating people by swapping their ATM cards and distributing the proceeds of crime among the people of his village in Rajasthan. The accused, identified as Rajender Kumar Meena, alias ATM, alias Raju, popularly known in his native village as Robinhood was arrested by the Delhi Police. On

NEW DELHI: THE Conservation and Cultural Archives Division of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) recently hosted an exhibition and lecture commemorating the birth anniversary of poet extraordinaire Rabindranath Tagore in the national capital. Besides Member Secretary of IGNCA Dr Sachchidanand Joshi, many esteemed speakers, including author Fabien Chartier, artist-photographer Neelkamal Adak, and art historian Basu Acharya, offered diverse perspectives on Tagores legacy. The e

NEW DELHI: Delhi University announced a partial modification to its summer vacation dates on Thursday, as per an official notification. The revised dates are from June 14 to July 21, instead of the originally declared June 7 to July 21, as stated in a circular dated November 9, 2023. This change has sparked significant criticism from teachers groups. Abha Dev Habib, DTF (DU teachers Front) secretary, remarked, DU has delayed the vacation period by a week. This sudden change in the calendar is co

NEW DELHI: Rising temperatures in the national capital sent the power demand to this summers highest at 6,780 MW. Discom officials quoted the realtime data from the State Load Dispatch Centre at 3.26 pm. Discoms anticipate demand to cross 8,000 MW, possibly reaching 8,200 MW. The citys all-time peak demand was 7,695 MW in 2022, with last years highest reaching 7,438 MW. A BSES spokesperson said that BRPL and BYPL successfully met the peak demand in their respective areas. In South and West Delhi

NEW DELHI: BJPs candidate from the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat, Bansuri Swaraj, criticised the alliance between the AAP and Congress by labelling it as unnatural. While campaigning at Ajmal Khan Park in the Karol Bagh area on Thursday, Swaraj underscored the historical rivalry between AAP and Congress, citing Punjab, where AAP replaced Capt Amarinder Singh-led government and Sheila Dikshit regime in Delhi. The alliance of AAP and Congress is unnatural. Whenever Congress lost power, the AAP snatched

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Congress on Thursday attacked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP on issues of inflation, unemployment and farmers plight. Congress spokesperson Ragini Nayak said that price rise, inflation and unemployment have wrecked the lives of the people, but the central government remains unfazed. PM Modi indulges in political gimmicks by calling the harassed and anguished women in the country as sisters and daughters, while on the other hand, the BJP makes fun of sisters and dau

NEW DELHI: The ED on Thursday told the Supreme Court and objected to Arvind Kejriwals statement made while campaigning, where he said that if the people of India vote for Aam Aadmi Party, he will not have to go back to jail. This is a slap on the face of the institution, Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, a senior law officer appearing for the ED, told the apex courts two-judge bench, led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna and also comprising Justice Dipankar Datta. When Mehta asked the apex court to pa

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police team reached AAP MP Swati Maliwal's house on Thursday in connection with the alleged assault on her at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence, officials said. Led by an Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) rank officer, the team has gone to the Rajya MP's residence to seek details of the incident, they said. Additional CP of Special Cell of Delhi Police and Additional DCP North arrive at the residence of AAP MP #SwatiMailwal in Delhi. ANI pic.twitter.com/85V7ujKi

Despite a robust independent film scene, spearheaded by a bunch of talented young filmmakers, it has taken 30 years (since Shaji N Karuns Swaham in 1994) for an Indian film to find a place in the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. This has been so when our films have played and competed consistently at other festivals the world over. What took so long for Cannes to come around? What is it about Payal Kapadias debut feature All We Imagine As Light that has helped break the dry spell

A few days back I chanced upon a reel by one of the creators that I follow announcing his first ever pop-up, which he plans to host this weekend. Archit Agarwal is a Gurugram-based marketing professional who is also better known as @architlost on Instagram. His food blog, Life of Simple Treats (LOST), is his space to document all the recipes that hes experimented with over the years, and is quite the hit with the millennials on Instagram. Some of my earliest memories have been of sitting in the

NEW DELHI: Training his guns on the AAP, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal failed to fulfil his promises and cheated the people of the capital. Kejriwal ji cheated the people of Delhi with false promises and deceitful tactics. If he comes to power, he will drown the country in the quagmire of corruption, Chouhan alleged while addressing a gathering at Malka Ganj in the North East Delhi constituency, wh

NEW DELHI: Congress hit out at the BJP on Wednesday over the law and order situation, particularly for the women in the city. The party said that the Centre has failed to take responsibility for the rising crime rates against women and senior citizens in the last 10 years. It also said that the INDIA bloc will improve the law and order situation if it is voted to power. Addressing a press conference, senior Congress leader Harun Yusuf said the national capital is now infamous as the rape and cri

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said that the members of the Sikh community have extended their full support to them in the Chandni Chowk constituency for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The BJP has fielded Praveen Khandelwal against Congress JP Aggarwal from the Chandni Chowk constituency. According to party leaders, the members of the Sikh community unanimously resolved to make the BJP win with huge votes in the presence of the partys national secretary, Manjinder Sin

NEW DELHI: A 65-year-old motorcycle-borne man was killed on Wednesday after a speeding SUV rammed into him from the rear side, crushing the elderly before hitting another vehicle in the front. The deceased was identified as Kishan Lal, a resident of Khanpur. Deputy Commissioner of Police (west) Vichitra Veer said that at around 10 am information regarding an accident was received at Rajouri Garden police station following which the local police rushed to the spot. It was found that a person was

NEW DELHI: The Delhi BJP staged a massive protest outside the official residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the national capital on Wednesday. The protest was in response to the alleged mistreatment of Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal by the Chief Ministers former personal secretary, Bibhav Kumar. Led by Delhi chief Virendra Sachdeva and the partys womens front, the protesters demanded Kejriwals resignation from the position of Chief Minister of Delhi. The protest began around 11 AM when h

The humble lota, a spherical water vessel, is a rare sight in city life. Yet, in the villages of India and its hinterland, it is part of rituals and daily chores. The balti (bucket), too, has disappeared from urban bathrooms since the time we installed showers. We no longer lug double-decker tiffins to the office in an age of fast-delivery food options. The kulhad (an earthenware cup) is now limited to, if at all, roadside tea stalls and shacks, and train stations. The matkas (earthenware pots)

NEW DELHI: The Delhi election commission has called upon the citys police force to take firm action against political parties and their operatives involved in registering voters for post-election beneficiary-oriented schemes. In a letter addressed to Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora on May 11, the electoral body emphasised the need to sensitise field personnel and district police to be proactive and vigilant in curbing such illicit activities. According to the letter, the Delhi election of