An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 struck Uttarakhand’s Chamoli around 10.20 pm on Tuesday, and its tremors were also felt in Delhi and its adjoining areas. The confirmation from the National Center for Seismology came only around 10.40 pm, with many people taking to social media until then, wondering if others had felt the tremors too. At least...
A Delhi court has slammed the city police for what it called an “absolutely perfunctory and mere eyewash” report in an organised-crime case, in which two accused allegedly continued to commit heinous offences, including murder, for years after the stringent MCOCA was invoked against them but were arrested only in 2026. Special Judge Gaurav Rao...
India and Switzerland today inked five agreements following bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Swiss President Guy Parmelin in New Delhi. These agreements are on Migration and Mobility Partnership, Exchange of Young Professionals, Promotion and Collaboration on Transportation Technologies, Mobility Systems and Infrastructure in Identified Areas, Letter of Intent between Department of Science...
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Centre, seeking their detailed responses within a week to a plea challenging the manner in which the poll panel, led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, allegedly took certain decisions without the approval of the other two Election Commissioners....
Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and BL Verma were dropped from list of eight Rajya Sabha candidates from Uttar Pradesh that the ruling BJP announced on Monday. Puri holds the dual charge of Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Urban and Housing Affairs. BL Verma is is the Minister of State in the Ministry...
School pupils are expected to be back at the barricades in France on Tuesday for the biggest day of protests so-far, after officers made more that 5,000 in clashes across the country last week. Hundreds of people have been injured in the demonstrations, and one 15-year-old boy had his hand blown off outside a school...
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta today launched cashless medical facilities for the pensioners and family pensioners of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) under the Sewa Sankalp Abhiyan. Addressing the occasion, the Chief Minister said that earlier, pensioners and family pensioners had to bear the cost of treatment from their own pockets and then go through...
India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has defended New Delhi’s longstanding strategic and economic ties with Moscow, saying historical relations and national interests shape India’s foreign policy rather than Western geopolitical alignments. Speaking at the Munich Leaders Meeting on the future of India-Russia relations, Jaishankar said the two countries had maintained strong ties since the...
In a move aimed at increasing Delhi’s capacity to process fresh waste, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is setting up three new waste-processing plants at Okhla, Singhola and Ghazipur, along with a 300-TPD (tonnes per day) biogas plant at Ghazipur. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday laid the foundation stones for the three plants...
The Delhi Police on Sunday deployed around 5,000 personnel, including those from the Rapid Action Force (RAF) and other paramilitary forces, in the Capital ahead of two protest marches from India Gate to Jantar Mantar against chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls today....