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

NEW DELHI: No regular reports on schools or on distressed children from across the city, no journals being launched, no awareness programmes being ganizedtechnically, no activity has been witnessed on behalf of DCPCR, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights, which is the statutory watchdog of the government of Delhi. It has been over a year since the post of chairman of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has been lying vacant. It does not even have a single s

NEW DELHI: In a medical marvel, a 13-year-old underwent a successful liver transplant surgery while in a coma. The case is one-of-its-kind as no complex surgical procedures are performed on patients. In a noble gesture, the doctors of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) crowdfunded the expensive surgery since the family was unable to pay for it because of their poor economic condition. The doctors said going for the transplant for the patient while she was in a coma involved high risks, but it was the

NEW DELHI: The Rouse Avenue Court in New Delhi on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia till May 30 in the Delhi liquor policy case. After considering the plea of the CBI, Special Judge Kaveri Baweja extended Sisodias custody till May 30, after being produced before the court through video conference on the expiry of his judicial custody granted earlier. The Central Bureau of investigation had registered the case against Sisod

NEW DELHI: A day after the national capital recorded a high of 40.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above the seasons average, Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 22.9 degree Celsius on Wednesday, over two notches below the seasons normal. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 22.9 degree Celsius on Wednesday, over two notches below the seasons normal. The humidity level stood at 49 per cent at 8.30 am. The maximum temperature is likely to settle at 42 degrees Celsius. The maximum and minimum tem

NEW DELHI: A day after his admission that CM Arvind Kejriwals PS Bibhav Kumar misbehaved with AAP MP Swati Maliwal at the CMs residence, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday met Maliwal. Sources said Singh was accompanied by Delhi Commission for Women member Vandana Singh. The meeting reportedly took place at Maliwals residence. Singh admitted that Kumar misbehaved with Maliwal on Monday at the CMs residence and that the AAP chief would take strict action in the matter. His statement cam

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NEW DELHI: A day after Aam Aadmi Party leader Swati Maliwal accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals private secretary Bibhav Kumar of misbehaving with her, the party sought to limit the damage by admitting the crime, adding stern action would be taken against the accused. Swati Maliwal is AAPs Rajya Sabha member and former head of the Delhi Commission for Women. She was assaulted at the chief ministers residence on Monday. Maliwal alerted the police but did not file a formal complaint. The

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday said that it has disposed of 90 percent of complaints it received from political parties over alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), which came into effect following the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls on March 16. So far, 25 delegations from 16 political parties have met the commission to lodge their grievances/complaints on alleged violations of model code, the EC said. Meanwhile, the EC on Tuesday also said it ex

NEW DELHI: Popularly known as Nangloi, the Nangloi Jat assembly segment has become infamous for its railway gateposts, which cause traffic jams. The road towards the railway crossing becomes a nightmare during the evening. The traffic jam after 5:30 pm is a never-ending ordeal. The gatepost gets closed and the entire road comes to a standstill. I fear that if somebody is ill and gets stuck in this jam, they might not make it. It is that dire, Keshav Gupta, a resident, shared, his voice filled wi

NEW DELHI: The Delhi unit of Congress said on Tuesday that AAPs national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will hold road shows on Wednesday in support of the party's three Congress candidates. The Delhi CM will lead the road shows in Jahangirpuri and Model Town. The candidatesKanhaiya Kumar from Northeast seat, Udit Raj from Northwest and JP Agarwal from Chandni Chowk will remain present. This will be the first show of support by any top leader from either party for other candid

NEW DELHI: A week after a notice from Delhi Universitys Hansraj College called a parent-teacher meeting for students with attendance below 50%, Aryabhatta College has issued a similar notice. On May 8, the college authorities advised students with low attendance to bring their parents and meet with their teacher-in-charge to decide the next course of action. Moreover, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (SBSC) introduced a new graded detention system for students with low attendance, resulting in 1,343

NEW DELHI: The BJPs youth wing has said it will send a representative for a poll debate with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi if the latter agrees. Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) vice-president Abhinav Prakash, an economist and Youtuber, has been handpicked by sitting Bangalore south BJP MP Tejasvi Surya to debate with the senior Congress leader. The BJPs response comes after the Wayanad MP accepted the invitation by former judges Madan B Lokur and Ajit P Shah to a public debate with

NEW DELHI: Attacking the AAP, the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday called Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Corruption-wal (corrupt man) and alleged that the latter has broken all records in corruption. Kejriwal is no longer Kejriwal. He has become Corruption-wal. This man has broken all the records of corruption. A man who swore to be honest to come to power has become the most corrupt. It is shameful, he said while addressing a rall

Change is afoot, as fashions onus is shifting towards a fresh sensibility with a new thrust on comfort. And riding on this change is Nithya Suryaprakas, creative director of the fashion label Alonge. It is where luxury knitwear meets revolutionary innovation. Founded on the principle of merging quality with comfort, Alonges iCotton is a ground-breaking blend of shine, softness, stretch, and breathability. We believe in empowering individuals to embrace intelligent style. Our garments seamlessly

NEW DELHI: The Education Department has apparently woken up after a year, realising that six individuals nominated for the position of principals in Delhi schools via UPSC had not reported for document verification, despite repeated reminders over nine months. After over a year of waiting and unnecessary delays, which left six schools without appointed principals, the department finally issued a circular announcing the cancellation of the candidatures of these individuals. According to a notific

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on the bail pleas of Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia in the money laundering and corruption cases linked to the alleged liquor policy scam. Currently in judicial custody in connection to the excise policy scam, Sisodias bail pleas were heard by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, who reserved the order after hearing arguments from senior advocates Dayan Krishnan and Mohit Mathur, representing Sisodia, and Zohe

NEW DELHI: In a late-night development, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday said the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 scheduled for May 15 stands postponed for centres across Delhi due to unavoidable reasons. The examination in Delhi will now be held on May 29. Speaking with this paper, Prof Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar said, Due to unavoidable reasons, the four papers scheduled on 15 May in the Centres of Delhi city only have to be rescheduled to 29 May 2024. NTA has done this

NEW DELHI: In the shadowy depths of Delhis criminal underbelly, it was sheer determination, iron-clad conviction, and relentless patience that drove ASI Ramesh of the Delhi Police to bring down a ghost from the past. 17 years had passed since a heinous crime rattled the core of justice. Today, that ghost has a name: Virender Singh. Virender, hailing from Vaishali district, Bihar, had cloaked himself in anonymity in Delhis bustling streets back in June 2007. He rented a nondescript apartment and

NEW DELHI: At least seven hospitals in the city, and even Tihar Jail received bomb threat emails on Tuesday, following which security agencies were alerted and search operations were carried out. Nothing suspicious was found, police officials said, adding that the threats were found to be a hoax. This is the third bomb scare incident that has been reported this month. A senior Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said they received seven bomb threat alerts from seven hospitals on Tuesday. The calls