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Rewarding Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's efforts to reduce pollution levels in Delhi, nature seems to be doing its own magic as Delhites breathed the freshest air in more than 14 months. Heavy rains in Delhi garnered its first ‘good air day’ this year in a span of 24 hours.

Delhi High Court rejects pleas challenging Rakesh Asthana's appointment as Delhi Police Commissioner

At least 480 cases of dengue have been reported in the national capital this season, including nearly 140 in October, according to a civic report released on Monday. The total number of cases till October 2 had stood at 341.  Nearly 140 fresh cases have been recorded in the last one week. Also read: Dengue's D2 strain causes concern for high grade fever, shock syndrome

BJP MP Maneka Gandhi wrote to Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Friday urging him to equip the national capital's forest department personnel with necessary arms and vehicles for their safety. Gandhi, a wildlife activist, cited the September 23 attack on forest department employees in South Delhi's Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary and demanded that the department be

The Delhi High Court Friday granted two weeks to Delhi government to decide on implementing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's announcement that if a poor tenant was unable to pay rent during the Covid-19 pandemic, the state would pay it. Delhi government's counsel Gautam Narayan told Justice Rekha Palli, who was hearing a plea alleging willful disobedience of the court's order

The Delhi High Court has asked the prison authorities to file an affidavit stating why the correct facts relating to a man's conviction being modified from gang rape to the offence of rape were not placed before the Sentence Review Board (SRB). The court directed the Delhi Prisons director-general to file the affidavit also indicating the reasons why the SRB was informed that

A day after Islamabad blamed intelligence agencies of India and Afghanistan for the death of nine citizens of China in what it earlier called an accident in northern Pakistan, New Delhi dismissed the allegation as yet another lie peddled by Imran Khan’s government in the neighbouring country.

Even before Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai settles in, he might have to head to New Delhi once again due to disgruntlement over portfolios allocated to his Cabinet colleagues. 

With the United States lawmakers expressing concerns over the state of freedom of expression and religion in India, President Joe Biden’s administration is now planning to take up the issues with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in New Delhi.

Karnataka BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Thursday asked what is the wrong with the MLAs visiting New Delhi. Speaking to media persons, he said, "They will visit the national capital for their personal work and will return. There is no confusion in the BJP right now. There is no need to attach much importance to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa visiting Delhi. The CM will

The months-long surge in the prices of petrol and diesel across the country continued on Thursday amid protests in various states.

Fuel prices were hiked for a third time this month on Sunday, with petrol in the national capital up by 35 paise and diesel seeing a rise of 18 paise a litre each, according to the latest notification by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL). Petrol in Delhi is inching closer to the Rs 100-mark at Rs 99.51 a litre, while diesel now costs Rs 89.36/ litre in the national capital. In

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Emily Schmall, Suhasini Raj and Hari Kumar, At 9:45 pm, alarms blared across the Intensive Care Unit of Jaipur Golden Hospital. Over two dozen patients on ventilators couldn’t breathe. Some flailed their arms and legs. Others cried for help, choking sounds coming from their throats as if they were being strangled. Mechanics sprinted to the maintenance

South Delhi eatery 'Baba ka Dhaba' owner Kanta Prasad has returned home after being discharged from the Safdarjung hospital, police said on Friday. Prasad, 81, attempted suicide on June 17, police had earlier said. He had consumed alcohol and sleeping pills following which he was admitted to the hospital, police officials had said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Atul

COVID-19 has resulted in governments at all levels operating in a context of radical uncertainty. A young and dynamic social worker, Tushar Aggrawal has been on its toes to mitigate the regional and local impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Delhi. 

With vaccine centres in Delhi getting overcrowded, drive-through Covid testing facilities are catching up in the city. Delhi got its second drive-in vaccine centre at Select Citywalk Mall. (Image Credit: PTI Photos)

Karnataka Tourism Minister C P Yogeeshwara, whose visit to New Delhi triggered latest round of speculations about attempts to replace Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, on Thursday said it was to discuss his own political future with national leaders and had nothing to with leadership change in the state.

Youth Congress president B V Srinivas, who is in the forefront of coordinating Covid-19 relief, was on Friday questioned by Delhi Police to know about his source of relief material like oxygen cylinders and medicines even as the Congress said if helping someone is a crime, they will do it "again and again".

The decline in Covid-19 cases in the national capital continued on Saturday, the consecutive second day in which the new cases remained below 10,000-mark, even as the number of tests slipped to the lowest since the second wave of the pandemic hit the city. The number of fresh cases recorded in Saturday's health bulletin was 6,430 as against 8,506 on Friday.

Nine-month-old Krishu, the only child to his blind parents, succumbed to Covid-19 at a Delhi government-run hospital, while his father, battled the deadly virus at another hospital. On Thursday evening, Jitender Singh 'Shunty', a former BJP MLA, buried Krishu in a corner of the Old Seemapuri cremation ground. This was the second time in two days that Singh was burying a child

The dialer tune message of the Centre asking people to get vaccinated was criticised by the Delhi High Court which on Thursday said the "irritating" message was being played for "we don't know how long" asking people to get the jab when there was not enough vaccine. "You have been playing that one irritating message on the phone whenever one makes a call, for we do not know

Delhi crematoriums and burial grounds are inundated with dead bodies due to the devastating surge of Covid-19 cases during the second wave of coronavirus. To keep up the pace with the sudden surge, the workload in most crematoriums has doubled. Here are some heart-wrenching pictures straight from the capital's crematoriums and burial grounds.

The construction for the Central Vista construction is in full swing amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and a lockdown in the national capital. The project envisages a new triangular Parliament building, a Common Central Secretariat and the revamping of the three-km-long Rajpath from the Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate and new residences for the prime minister and the vice

Amid a surge in the number of Covid-19 fatalities and a shortage of wood, two civic bodies in the national capital have given a nod to the use of cow dung and stubble mixture for the cremation of bodies. North Delhi Municipal Corporation Mayor, Jai Prakash said cow sheds under NDMC's jurisdiction have been asked to install machines that will convert cow dung into dung cakes.

Delhi Capitals climbed to the top of the Indian Premier League with a seven-wicket win over Punjab Kings on Sunday after Rajasthan Royals' Jos Buttler struck his maiden Twenty20 century. Victory took 2020 runners-up Delhi two points above Chennai Super Kings, who have a game in hand. Punjab suffered a setback before the match when captain KL Rahul was hospitalised with acute