NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is set to return to Tihar Jail on Sunday after spending more than three weeks on electioneering. He is scheduled to leave his residence at approximately 3pm and will be accompanied by his supporters. During his release from jail on interim bail from May 11 to May 30, Kejriwal…
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said there has been no leniency in recovering bad loans, especially from large defaulters, and banks have turned around, reporting record profit of over Rs 3 lakh crore last year, from being a “cesspool of bad loans, vested interests, corruption and mismanagement” during UPA regime.On the day…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi government approached the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking its intervention to address the acute water shortage in the city. The government has requested the court to direct neighboring states, including Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, to provide additional raw water supply to the national capital.The move comes as Delhi grapples…
NEW DELHI: The wait for an improved experience on Air India is proving to be a long one for its passengers. The airline’s Delhi-San Francisco flight on Thursday was delayed, with passengers being made to sit inside an aircraft without air-conditioning in the capital’s searing heat. Some of them allegedly fainted in the heat, while…
NEW DELHI: A fire broke at a private eye hospital in west Delhi’s Paschim Vihar area on Tuesday. No one was in injured in the incident as people were safely evacuated from the building, the officials said. A call was received regarding the incident at 11.35 am. The fire broke out at the second floor…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party minister Atishi on Wednesday accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to stop Yamuna water supply to Delhi in its bid to “target” the ruling party in Delhi.Addressing a press conference, Atishi said: “Ahead of the voting on May 25 in Delhi, the BJP has hatched a new conspiracy to…
NEW DELHI: Researchers from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have conducted a one-year follow-up study on individuals who received Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. The study revealed that approximately one-third of the participants experienced ‘adverse events of special interest’ (AESI) after receiving the vaccine. Dr Rajiv Bahl, the director general of ICMR, has responded to the study by…
Bibhav Kumar, accused by Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal of assault at CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in Civil Lines, known as Kejriwal’s closest associate for two decades. Manages official work at Delhi Secretariat and is the key contact for party functionaries. Met Kejriwal at Kabir NGO during India Against Corruption movement. Source link
NEW DELHI: Delhi-NCR continued to reel under a heatwave for the second consecutive day as the mercury breached 45oC at 10 stations on Saturday. Mungeshpur in northwest Delhi was the hottest at 46.8oC.The heat spell will continue next week as the maximum temperature is predicted to hover around 45oC for the next seven days. A…
NEW DELHI: Heat wave is a weather phenomenon characterized by extremely high temperatures that can pose serious health risks to the human body upon exposure. The definition of a heat wave varies across regions and is determined by specific temperature thresholds, either in terms of absolute temperature values or departures from the normal range.Some countries…
