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North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash Monday ordered an inquiry after an under-construction building in Old Delhi’s Sitaram Bazar area collapsed, leaving one person injured. The incident took place in the morning when the lintel supporting the under-construction roof gave in, the mayor said. One labourer was injured in the incident, he had been rescued, he said. "The building's plan

Delhi Congress leaders and workers marching towards Parliament on Monday to protest against the new Farm Bills were detained by police. Amid vociferous protest by opposition parties, Rajya Sabha passed the Farmers' and Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services

Follow DH for the ball-by-ball updates of match 2 of Indian Premier League between Delhi Capitals and Kings XI Punjab being played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.

Rebel AIADMK leader and V K Sasikala’s nephew T T V Dhinakaran made a surprise visit to the national capital on Sunday, sparking off speculation about a change in political equations in Tamil Nadu where assembly elections are due early 2021. Dhinakaran, whose political stocks plummeted to a new low after his party’s poor performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, is understood

JD(U) MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh wondered on Sunday if coronavirus was being "pushed" into Delhi every time cases of the infection came down in the national capital, as he claimed that the world is still debating if the virus is man-made or natural. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on the Covid-19 pandemic, Singh said, "We see that infections in Delhi are going down

A 40-year-old man arrested on charges of raping a minor girl was allegedly found hanging with a bedsheet inside the lock-up of Samaypur Badli police station following which a constable has been suspended, police said on Sunday. The deceased, Dharmendra, who was lodged in jail in a case of murder-cum-robbery was released on parole in March this year. But due to the successive

National convener of AAP and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday appealed to all non-BJP parties to vote against three agriculture-related bills in the Rajya Sabha, saying farmers in the country wished so. Also read: Agriculture bills passed by Lok Sabha historic, says PM Modi

The Delhi Police investigation and charge sheets in the Delhi riots cases have raised questions about the impartiality of the probes and whether it is a deliberate attempt to go after a community and all critics of the Modi government and its policies. There is a pattern in investigations conducted by agencies under the central government since at least the Bhima-Koregaon

Delhi riots: Message in a probe gone wrong Some 751 FIRs registered, 340 cases ‘solved’, 250 charge sheets filed against 1,153 accused, 12 pistols, 121 empty cartridges, 92 live cartridges, 61 glass bottles filled with noxious chemicals and an assortment of sharp-edged weapons used in the riots that ravaged north-east Delhi in late February seized. In the normal course, one

A member of the Delhi Minorities Commission has died due to Covid-19, chairman of the panel Zakir Khan said on Saturday. Aam Aadmi Party leader Dilip Pandey condoled the death of Kawaljeet Singh in a tweet and called him as an old friend.

The Public Works Department of the Delhi government has directed officials to submit the status report of all ongoing construction projects through its website, a move that is aimed at ensuring timely completion of projects. In a letter to all superintendent engineers, the department said the status report of sanctioned projects should also be uploaded on the PWD's website on

A freelance journalist, who was earlier "snooped" using the controversial Israeli spyware Pegasus, was arrested under the Official Secrets Act with Delhi Police on Friday claiming that he was in possession of defence-related classified documents. Rajeev Sharma, who earlier worked with United News of India, The Tribune, Free Press Journal, Saakaal among others, was arrested on

With senior military commanders of India and China likely to restart talks to resolve the stand-off in eastern Ladakh, a government panel of the top bureaucrats along with military and intelligence officials met in South Block here on Friday.   The group, informally called the "China Study Group’, discussed New Delhi’s approach for the forthcoming talks between the senior

A Delhi court Friday granted bail to a man after the person, who was stated to be injured in the case related to the communal violence in north east Delhi in February, could not be traced. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat granted the relief to Imran on furnishing a bail bond of Rs 15,000 with a surety of like amount. The case was registered based on the fact that one

Compensation applications of many Northeast Delhi riot victims were rejected on "flimsy grounds" such as for not picking up their phone and neighbours testifying against them, Delhi Waqf Board officials said on Friday. The panel is going through 748 rejected applications for compensation on the direction of Delhi Assembly's Minority Welfare Committee. The committee in its

The investigation and follow-up actions by Delhi Police on the communal riots impact the lives of many people whose names figure in the charge sheet, they take up the time of the court and, most importantly, their outcome is important for the people who were affected by the riots and are waiting for justice. But the investigations and the charge sheet based on them, filed till

 The BJP is responsible for the Delhi riots and there are public records to show that its leaders had spread hatred between two communities, AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said on Wednesday. Responding to a question on the recent arrests in the northeast Delhi riots case, Bhardwaj said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) holds the BJP responsible for instigating the riots. "AAP has a

The first 'Kisan Rail' from Karnataka, between Bengaluru and Delhi, will be run from September 19 to October 19, the South Western Railway said on Tuesday. Kisan Rail are trains with multi commodities, multi- consignors and multi-consignees. The service, to run via Mysuru, Hubbali and Pune, would make five trips, the SWR said in a release It will run between fixed

Lack of rain will likely to push the mercury further up in Delhi over the next two days, the weather department said on Tuesday. There has been no rain in the city for the past five days. According to the India Meteorological Department, the maximum temperature will likely touch the 38-degrees Celsius mark over the next two days amid lack of rain. It, however, forecast light

Flood relief, GST compensation and Cabinet expansion will be key agendas during Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s visit to Delhi. He will fly to Delhi on September 17 and meet union ministers and BJP high command, during the next few days. Yediyurappa’s visit to Delhi along with a delegation of ministers is also expected to discuss key development projects with the

Delhi Police has summoned documentary filmmakers Rahul Roy and Saba Dewan for questioning on Monday in connection with Delhi riots, a day after Umar Khalid was arrested. Activists, writers, and academicians, including Arundhati Roy and Ramachandra Guha, condemned Khalid's arrest saying that the investigation is becoming "more vindictive and farcical" with every passing day.

The one-day session of the Delhi Assembly began on Monday by paying homage to 20 Indian army personnel who were killed in the Galwan Valley clash in Ladakh and condoling the death of former president Pranab Mukherjee. Various safety measures were put in place for the one-day session, including setting up of a coronavirus testing facility at the assembly for its staff and

The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the Centre, Railways Ministry and Delhi government would sit together to find a solution within four weeks, following the order to demolish 48,000 'jhuggis' (slum dwellings) along railway lines in the national capital. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta assured a bench presided over by Chief Justice S A Bobde that till a

The charge-sheeting on Delhi riots mentioning the names of Sitaram Yechury, Yogendra Yadav and Jayati Ghosh among others has triggered a controversy but police on Sunday clarified that none of them have been named as accused in the case. Read more

Delhi Police late on Sunday night arrested activist Umar Khalid in connection with the investigations into riots in north-east Delhi earlier this February. My son Umar Khalid has been arrested tonight at 11:00 pm by Special Cell, Delhi Police under UAPA. Police was questioning him since 1:00 pm. He has been implicated in Delhi Riots. #StandWithUmarKhalid