NEW DELHI: Congress candidate Kanhaiya Kumar on Monday filed his nomination from the north east Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. Kumar filed his nomination at the District Magistrate's office in Nand Nagri in the presence of senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Minister Gopal Rai. He is pitted against BJP's two-time MP from the same constituency and Bhojpuri singer-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari. Kumar contested the 2019 general election as a CPI candidate from the Begusarai seat in Bihar.

NEW DELHI: A court here on Monday dismissed the bail applications filed by BRS leader K Kavitha in corruption and money laundering cases being probed by the CBI and ED in connection with the alleged excise policy scam. Special Judge for CBI and ED, Kaveri Baweja, dismissed the applications, saying the stage was not right to grant the relief. Kavitha is in judicial custody in both the cases lodged by the ED and the CBI. The ED arrested Kavitha (46) from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on

For centuries, the consumption of addictive substances has been part of everyday life, especially during social occasions or religious festivals. In West Bengal, for instance, offering alcohol is an aspect of the ritual worship of Kali. In Ujjain, many pilgrims carry a bottle of alcohol to offer Shiva. Holi celebrations in north India are incomplete without a glass of thandai steeped in bhang leaves. It is impossible to conceive of a Holi song in Bollywood without characters chugging a glass of

My friend in Europe writes to me that their winters are too long. l wiggle my bare feet on the dew drop cooled grass. And breathe in my summer. The orange Palash flowers have melted overnight, and flattened themselves into sage green leaves. On trees that had not a single flash of green but were heavy with fleshy turgid flame-like blossoms. Or has the orange fairy just flown to another magical tree- the golden blooming Gulmohar, summers beautiful tender bride? I am living an Indian summer after

NEW DELHI: The number of first-time voters in the city has increased by nearly one lakh since the electoral roll published in January this year. The voter count has gone up from 1.47 lakh in January to 2.43 lakh, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) for Delhi said, adding, estimates suggest that the figure may reach 2.5 lakh by the time the final roll is published. The concerted efforts of the Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) have sparked a significant surge in young-

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Devendra Yadav on Sunday took over the charge of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC)s President on Sunday. The event marked the presence of most of the leaders as it was meant to show the strength of the party which has been lately engulfed in departure of senior leaders and cracks among the cadre. Raking the sentiment of loyalty, Yadav said that today, Congress needs its workers more than ever. Its our duty to stand by the family when times are hard. Today, th

NEW DELHI: Located along Pushta road in east Delhi, Gandhi Nagar assembly is well known for its historic and Asias biggest wholesale market. It has over 25,000 shops and 10,000 household manufacturing units, generating a daily turnover of more than Rs 100 crore. Despite its economic importance, the markets share in the garment trade has been declining due to inadequate infrastructure. Two years ago, the Delhi government, in its Rozgaar budget 2022-24 announced a re-development plan according to

NEW DELHI: Sunita Kejriwal, wife of the incarcerated AAP national convenor, Arvind Kejriwal, on Sunday urged the public to cast their vote against the prevailing dictatorship of the BJP-led Centre. Leading a road show through the bustling streets of Deoli assembly constituency in South Delhi, Sunita also claimed her husband, the incumbent Delhi Chief Minister was arrested to stifle the voice of dissent against the BJP. Amid cheers and exhuberant sloganeering of AAP supporters who gathered on rro

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Sunday came down heavily on the leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party, saying those who once come into politics for the welfare of people are now involved in scams. Within Delhi, there is a government-run by one man, which, rather than serving the common people, is continuously involved in scams. They are trying to form a government with those with whom they had promised never to shake hands, Annamalai said while addressing a gathering at Talkatora sta

The National Capital Region, after its creation nearly 40 years ago to facilitate administration in the Capital, has become almost synonymous with Delhi. With the capital city lying at its heart, the NCR, comprises several other districts in the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The prominent cities of the greater NCR include Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, and Noida, surrounding Delhi, and vital to the stability of the Capital. Situated so close to Delhi, the governance, administr

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked for a response, within five weeks, from relevant authorities, including the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), concerning the recent fire incident at the Ghazipur landfill site. The tribunal initiated proceedings after taking suo motu cognizance of a newspaper article detailing the extensive blaze at the landfill located in East Delhi on April 21. A green court bench comprising NGT Chairperso

NEW DELHI: A Greater Noida-based businessmans minor son, who went missing on May 1, was found dead in the adjoining Bulandshahr district on Sunday, police officials said. The body of the class eight student was found along a canal in Bulandshahr, they said. Krishna Kumar Sharma, who runs Shiva da Dhaba in Greater Noida, said a woman had come to call his 14-year-old son Kunal at his eatery on May 1, and he went along with her but never returned. The woman came and took my son with her. When he di

NEW DELHI: A court has convicted a man for murdering a 92-year-old man and his 64-year-old daughter-in-law during a robbery bid in June 2015, saying the entire chain of circumstantial evidence was complete and that the Delhi Police had duly proved the charges. Additional Sessions Judge Shefali Barnala Tandon was hearing a case against the accused Deepanshu, who was accused of murdering Sewa Ram Kataria and Shashi Kataria by inflicting grievous injuries upon them with a pair of scissors at their

NEW DELHI: A man, who is suspected to have killed his two minor children inside his shop in Delhis Keshav Puram area, is still on the run as city police and crime branch are probing the matter, officials said on Sunday. On Saturday, a 13-year-old girl and his younger brother (11) were found dead inside their fathers grocery shop. The childrens father Manish, who is suspected to have killed his children by either giving them some poisonous substance or by smothering them. We have formed different

NEW DELHI: Are you sure the masala you add to your delicious delicacies is healthy enough to consume? While medics advise eating less spicy food, two Masala manufacturers and one supplier in the national capital may think otherwise. The reason. Well, they were making fortunes by manufacturing and selling non-edible essential spices, which had probably endangered lives of thousands of people. The cops have, in a sensational operation, unearthed two factories, where spurious masalas were manufactu

Delhi, with all its believed brutality and insensitivity, is kind in its own way. The kindness which has been bestowed on it not by its people but by nature. It does rain but seldom pours, it does shiver but does not frost, and its hot but dry sparing the unease caused by muggy weather. Its free from cyclones, landslides, floods (unless man made), and droughts. Delhi must not curse nature. It should be thankful. A colleague once told me that on changing residence she started to miss the sound of

NEW DELHI: A class 8 boy who was allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted by his classmates in an area in east Delhi returned home after undergoing treatment for nearly for a month. The boy was thrashed and sexually assaulted on March 18 by three other juveniles. They thrashed my son, took off his clothes and beat him with a stick. Later, the stick was inserted inside his body which damaged his intestines, his mother said. For more than a week he did not reveal anything and was rushed to a hospit

New Delhi, May 5 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita on Sunday alleged he was put in jail before the elections to stifle his voice and urged people to vote against dictatorship when the national capital goes to polls on May 25. Sunita held her third roadshow in the national capital in south Delhi in support of AAP candidate Sahiram Pahalwan on Sunday. She said her husband was put in jail since he built good government schools, mohalla clinics and promised to give Rs 1,000 to

NEW DELHI: The cost of air conditioning in school has to be borne by the parents as it is a facility being provided to the students, which is no different from the other charges such as laboratory fee, the Delhi High Court has said. A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) against a private school charging Rs 2,000 per month for the air conditioning in classes and stated that such financial burden cannot be fastened on the school management alo

NEW DELHI: Somnath Bharti, the AAP MLA and partys candidate from New Delhi Lok Sabha seat on Friday resigned from the post of vice-chairman of DJB, member of DDA and a non-official member of the Board of Visitors to Delhi Prisons. At present, I am member authority, DDA, vice chairman of Delhi Jal Board, and a non-official member to the Board of Visitors to Delhi Prisons, duly nominated by Delhi Legislative Assembly. At the time of filing nomination the applicant cant hold any office of profit I

BENGALURU: Hit first, hit hard, and keep hitting victory will be yours. These words of his father kept ringing in Colonel Jangvir Lambas head as he took the uphill task of participating in the 38th edition of the Marathon des Sables, known as the toughest race on Earth. The race, covering 253.5 km done in various stages in Morocco, deep within the Sahara Desert, saw 52-year-old Lamba emerge victorious. Despite the sheer difficulty level associated with the ultramarathon extreme temperatures of

NEW DELHI: The AAP on Friday claimed that Union home minister Amit Shah, in an interview, had revealed that the Enforcement Directorate had intended to arrest the Delhi Chief Minister even when issuing the very first summons, thus affirming AAPs insinuatuion that Arvind Kejriwals arrest by the ED was made under a conspiracy. Addressing the press, AAP leader Atishi alleged that Union home minister in an interview with a news channel made it clear that the ED intended to arrest Kejriwal from the v

NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old desperate criminal wanted in a murder case in Ghaziabad was nabbed after a gunfire encounter in Rohini in the early hours of Friday, police said. Mohd Faizan alias Nanhe, who is also known as Kalu and Goga, received a gunshot wound in his leg in the encounter that took place near Japanese Park in Rohini at about 3 am, they said. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Amit Kaushik, a secret tip-off was received that Faizan was coming to meet an associat

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the response of Jawaharlal Nehru University in a plea filed by PhD student Swati Singh against the cancellation of her candidature for the post of general secretary in the Jawaharlal Nehru Students Union polls 2023-2024. Justice Sachin Datta issued a notice to the university as well as its Election Committee, the Grievance Redressal Cell (GRC) and elected general secretary Priyanshi Arya on the plea moved by Swati Singh, a candidate of the United

NEW DELHI: A 18-year-old man was stabbed to death by two people, including a minor, at a southeast Delhi park over an enmity due to a girl, an official said on Friday, adding that they have nabbed the culprits. The accused were identified as Dharmender (18) and a juvenile (17), both residents of a JJ camp in Okhla. DCP (Southeast) Rajesh Deo said that on Thursday, Okhla Industrial Area police were informed by Apollo Hospital, that a patient named Shivam, resident of JJ Camp, Okhla Phase-II was b

NEW DELHI: The Directorate of Education (DoE) has a zero-tolerance policy in matters of safety in schools and its officials are doing their best to ensure the effective implementation of the guidelines for dealing with disasters, including bomb threats, the Delhi High Court was told. In a status report dated April 29, the DoE said it has issued several directions to the institutions to step up their safety and security measures, including a circular dated April 16 on precautionary measures and t

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police arrested Arun Reddy, the administrator of the Spirit of Congress social media handle on X, in connection with Amit Shahs fake video case, officials said on Friday. Reddy is the national coordinator of the social media wing of the Congress in Telangana and had allegedly played a role in editing or circulating the morphed video, a police official said, adding, Reddy was arrested from Delhi. The police seized Reddys mobile phone which was allegedly used to circulate the doct

NEW DELHI: A day after Delhi University announced that over 5,000 students will participate in the Run for Viksit Bharat event to be hosted by the institution, the Delhi University Teachers Front on Friday questioned the university administrations decision asking if it had turned to bat for Modi. The teachers body issued a joint statement saying Viksit Bharat is a campaign touted by the BJP-led Centre and an election agenda for Narendra Modi and the saffron party. Members of the Delhi University

NEW DELHI: Anticipating heat wave conditions in the national capital on May 25, the voting day for the Lok Sabha elections, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi on Friday issued directions to ensure that adequate arrangements are in place at all polling stations so that no voter feels any kind of discomfort while casting a vote. According to forecasts by several weather agencies, the maximum temperature will be above 40 degrees, and humidity will hover over 27 per cent on the Delhi polling

NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday issued a fresh advisory reiterating a ban on protests within 100 metres of the administration bloc, a move opposed by student organisations. A notice issued in this regard read, Dean of Students office/Inter Hall Administration building falls within the radius of 100 meters. Hunger strike, protests, group incursion and any other form of demonstration or blocking the entry or exit of any academic and administrative premises within the rad

NEW DELHI: Udit Raj from Congress while Praveen Khandelwal and Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from BJP were among 33 candidates who filed their nominations in Delhi on Friday. Union Minister Piyush Goyal, accompanying Khandelwal in a roadshow that started from the Red Fort, claimed that the Congress is going to be wiped out from entire north India after the ongoing election. Addressing a gathering ahead of Bidhuris roadshow in South Delhi, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami asserted that a wav

NEW DELHI: Malviya Nagar, situated in South Delhi, is a highly coveted residential area, originally settled by partition refugees from Pakistan. Over time, it has flourished, boasting excellent connectivity via metro and road networks, alongside prominent luxury shopping centers, museums, and hospital. However, despite its allure, certain segments of the Malviya Nagar constituency remain underdeveloped, such as Hauz Rani, Khirki, Savitri Nagar, and Begumpur. According to local resident Sangeeta

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has brought his wife Sunita to the forefront as he doesnt trust his MLAs, and the people of Delhi are aware of this, says Kamaljeet Sehrawat in an interview with Ujwal Jalali. Excerpts. What are the significant issues in your constituency? You must have seen Dwarka Expressway. It has drastically reduced travel time. There is no road connecting Nagnloi with Najafgarh. We need a clean and beautiful road like an expressway. When the central government

NEW DELHI: The people of Delhi know why Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested and will respond on the voting day, says AAPs West Delhi candidate Mahabal Mishra in an interview with Prabhat Shukla. Excerpts Your plans for developing the West Delhi area? The West campus of Delhi University is needed to cater to aspiring students, as it takes two and a half hours to reach the North Campus. I will work on setting up more hospitals, expanding the metro to connect Najafgarh to Dhansa, Nangloi, a

NEW DELHI: A 29-year-old inmate at Tihar Jail was allegedly stabbed to death inside the jail premises by a fellow prisoner from Afghanistan on Friday without any serious provocation, officials said. According to the official, the deceased, identified as Deepak (29), a resident of Shakurpur, was lodged in prison in a robbery-cum-murder case, and worked as a sewadar. He was attacked inside Jail Number 3 of Tihar jail where he was lodged. Sharing details, DCP (West) Vichitra Veer said the Hari Naga

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered action against the use of spurious Oxytocin hormone in dairy operations across the national capital. Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora emphasized that administering Oxytocin amounts to animal cruelty, categorizing it as a cognizable offense under Section 12 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. In response to a petition filed by Sunayana Sibal, Asher Jessudoss, and Akshita Kukreja, the court acknowledged the

NEW DELHI: Karol Bagha shoppers delight with Ajmal Khan Road offering affordable readymade garments, cotton yarn and embroidered garments, Arya Samaj Road housing second-hand books market, and Bank Street with jewellery shopshas also earned a name of being the noisiest location of the national capital. It recently recorded an average day-time decibel levels of 74.2 dB(A) in 2023, data from the Economic Survey 2023-24 shows. It was the fourth consecutive year that the station has recorded the hig

NEW DELHI: Delhi Congress leader Om Prakash Bidhuri on Thursday resigned from the party citing the alliance with the AAP as the reason. The resignation comes days after Arvinder Singh Lovely stepped down from the post of the Delhi Congress chief and former MLAs Neeraj Basoya and Naseeb Singh quit the party in protest against the alliance. Bidhuri, said to be a close aide to Lovely, claimed thousands of Congress workers were against the coalition with the AAP in Delhi. The main reason (for exit)

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police, in the FIR registered in connection with the email threat case of Delhi schools, said that the bomb threat email to over 130 schools was sent with an intention to create mass panic in the city. It appears that the emails used to send the threats were made with the conspiratorial intention of creating mass panic and to disturb public been made out, the FIR read. More than 150 schools in Delhi-NCR were forced to evacuate their students on Wednesday morning after they r

NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old criminal, wanted for the brutal murder of a man, was caught by the Delhi Police in an early morning encounter during which he sustained a bullet injury on his leg, an official said on Thursday. The accused was identified as Umar, resident of Chauhan Banger. DCP (northeast) Joy Tirkey said Umar was involved in a murder case of a man named Arbaaz in Seelampur area. Accordingly, the police registered an FIR under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and five suspected

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday opted not to issue directives to the Election Commission (EC) regarding the cessation of deepfake video circulation amidst the Lok Sabha elections. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora expressed its trust in the poll body to take appropriate action. Court cannot pass a direction in the middle of the election. Lets leave it to EC. We trust them, the bench remarked. Senior advocate Jayant Mehta,

NEW DELHI: A day after hoax bomb threat emails created panic in 131 Delhi-NCR schools, most institutions on Thursday witnessed a low attendance, while a couple of them opted for online classes even for the pre-schoolers. Meanwhile, Delhi Police has sought CBI help to crack the case. On Wednesday morning, the schools received hoax bomb threats via email, which led to widespread panic among parents and students, prompting authorities to suspend classes. Several schools on Thursday reopened to norm

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday formed a committee headed by MLA Durgesh Pathak to coordinate with its poll ally, Congress, for the election campaign. According to the party, responsibility of the New Delhi constituency was given to Rajesh Gupta, West Delhi to Naresh Balyan, South Delhi to Dinesh Mohaniya, Chandni Chowk to Pawan Sharma, North West Delhi constituency to Mukesh Ahlawat, North East Delhi to Sanjeev Jha and East Delhi to Dilip Pandey. An AAP leader said the two part

NEW DELHI: A woman working as an assistant professor in a UP college, was stabbed in the arm and robbed while travelling in a battery-operated rickshaw in Delhi, an official said on Thursday. The 32-year-old accused, identified as Chand Mohammad, was arrested. According to the official, the incident occurred on April 29, when the professor at Digambar Jain College in Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh), identified as Namita Jain, had hired a battery rickshaw from Apsara Border towards Mansarovar on GT Road.

NEW DELHI: Not even a single member of any political party on Thursday appeared before Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police special cell in connection with the sharing of Union Home Minister Amit Shahs fake video, officials said. We have asked some of the leaders from Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and one person from the Northeast. But no one turned-up for questioning on Thursday, a senior police officer said. The Delhi Police is likely to serve a second notice

NEW DELHI: Filing the nomination papers from the West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency on the BJP ticket on Thursday, the former MLA Kamaljeet Sehrawat said voters will choose her party as they have no sympathy for the jailed AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal. The Delhi chief minister has been under judicial custody since April 1 in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam. The voters will choose the Lotus symbol while casting their votes as they have no sympathy for Arvind Kejriwal, the f

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday launched a signature campaign Jail ka Jawab Vote se against the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday. People participated in the campaign, which commenced from Lajpat Nagar Central Market, expressing their sentiments by writing messages like I love you Kejriwal and Miss you Kejriwal. Addressing the press during the signature campaign, AAPs East Delhi candidate Kuldeep Kumar stated that Kejriwal has accomplished a lot for the people of De

NEW DELHI: AAP Rajya Sabha MP and former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal on Thursday slammed the termination order affecting 52 contractual employees of the commission. Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj, too, attacked L-G VK Saxena and the BJP over the sacking of illegally appointed contractual employees of the DCW, alleging that the saffron party is the biggest threat to women. There was no immediate reaction from the L-G office. The Women and Child Develop

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant bail to the wife of suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha, who allegedly raped a minor girl several times and impregnated her. A bench of Justice CT Ravikumar and Justice SVN Bhatti dismissed the plea of the officials wife Seema Rani, saying it was not inclined to interfere with the Delhi High Court order which dismissed her plea. Khakha has been accused of allegedly raping a minor girl several times between November 2020 and

NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over illegal mining operations proliferating in various regions in the Aravalli range of mountains, the Supreme Court on Thursday, while asking the Centre and state governments to take strict meaures to prevent such mining in these areas, observed that a balance between sustainable development and protection of the environment has to be made. A two-judge bench of the top court comprising Justice B R Gavai and Justice Abhay S Oka asked the governments to take effecti