Thunderstorm in Delhi: Power minister reviews plans to restore power supply

NEW DELHI: Power minister Piyush Goyal is reviewing measures to restore power supply in the capital on Saturday.Vast areas of Delhi were still without power after supply was disrupted by Friday's dust storm lashed the capital and its surrounding areas.The...

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EDM performed at Club BW in Delhi

Glamorous night: Partygoers in the capital recently danced the night away at Club BW. While DJ Kid Massive, from Denmark, treated the house to EDM and house music, the guests consulted their future with astrologer Jai Madaan.Amit Nigam, GM, Club BW,...

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Afghanistan boy seeks free treatment

NEW DELHI: Denied treatment by AIIMS for not being able to pay its cost, the Afghan refugee parents of a four-year-old boy, who requires a bone marrow transplant, on Friday moved the Delhi high court seeking a direction to the government to provide their...

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Delhi could witness a dust storm again today, many areas without power

NEW DELHI: A day after the massive thunderstorm, the national capital experienced milder temperatures in the early hours of the morning. Many across the capital were, however, still without electricity.According to the met department, the maximum temperature...

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Piyush Goyal reviews plans to restore Delhi power supply

NEW DELHI: Power minister Piyush Goyal is reviewing measures to restore power supply in the capital on Saturday. Vast areas of Delhi were still without power after supply was disrupted by Friday's dust storm lashed the capital and it's surrounding areas....

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Murdered man was harassed by cops, allege kin

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police transferred the case of alleged murder of a 30-year-old man by five policemen to the crime branch on Tuesday evening. They also arrested another constable, Rajesh, for being involved in the case. Cops have written to DDU hospital...

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Man jailed for carrying drugs

NEW DELHI: A Nepalese national has been sentenced to 12 years in jail by a Delhi court for possessing 10 kg of drugs.Special NDPS Judge Shail Jain, while handing down the jail term to Deepak Shamsher Thapa , considered the fact that it was...

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HC: Cannot act on half-baked petitions

NEW DELHI: Dismissing a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to define its policy on medical treatment given to poor children at a government hospital here, the Delhi high court has said it cannot act on "half- baked" petitions."Though undoubtedly...

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Protest against lawyers for assaulting Naga woman

NEW DELHI: Hundreds of students, activists and people from the Northeast protested on Tuesday against lawyers of the Tis Hazari court who allegedly assaulted youths from the region and a woman lawyer recently.The youths were assaulted while...

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Signature Bridge delayed, LG slams tourism agency

NEW DELHI: Work on the Signature Bridge at Wazirabad has been delayed further. As per current estimates, the project , which was initially to be completed before the 2010 Commonwealth Games, will be in place only by September 2015.During...

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NDMC's sweet for Holi costs nearly Rs 1 crore

LUCKNOW: This year's Holi was unusually a sweeter for the employees of New Delhi municipal council, as the civic agency responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of Lutyen's Delhi shelled out nearly Rs 1 crore to keep its employees in good humour as...

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Full statehood for Delhi is first demand from new PM: Vardhan

NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said the first issue he will take up for the city with the new Prime Minister would be grant of full statehood to the national capital as it would help overcoming the problem of multiplicity of authorities.Vardhan,...

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Fashion designers booked for stealing designs

NEW DELHI: A multi-national ethnic-wear maker has accused two of its former designers of stealing its designs, police said.According to police, an FIR under Section 66B of the Information Act has been registered at Mehrauli police station against Shweta...

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Man gets 10 years in jail for raping Air Force staffer's wife

NEW DELHI: A 55-year-old man has been awarded 10 years' rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi court for raping and pouring hazardous "chemical" on the private parts of the wife of an Air Force staffer.The convict, who was friendly with the 40-year-old victim's...

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Four held in Delhi with drugs worth Rs 100 crore

NEW DELHI: Four people were arrested for possessing drugs, including 21kg heroin worth Rs 100 crore on Sunday, police said.Mohammed Sajid Zubair of Mumbai and Noushad Abdul Rahiman from Kerala were arrested from Sarai Kale Khan area in Delhi. A total...

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Najeeb Jung awards BSF personnel

NEW DELHI: Lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung decorated 10 BSF men with police medals for gallantry, and 21 BSF officers and men with police medals for meritorious service on the occasion of 12th BSF investiture ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan on Thursday.Even...

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Traffic curbs for Modi's oath-taking

NEW DELHI: All roads leading to Rashtrapati Bhavan will be closed to the general public between 4pm and 8pm starting Saturday. The arrangement shall be in place till Monday. Traffic police have taken the decision in wake of beefed-up security ahead of...

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Giant screens for PM show in Delhi

NEW DELHI: From decorating markets with lights and flowers to setting up huge LED screens, BJP is taking pains to make Narendra Modi's swearing-in on Monday an elaborate affair. Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan has called a special meeting on Saturday...

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DDA uploads video to help applicants in property conversion

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Development Authority on Wednesday uploaded a video clip on their website to help people fill up their forms for property conversion.DDA officials said the video, which has been uploaded on www.dda.org.in, contains detailed instructions...

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Dust storms likely in Delhi

NEW DELHI: After light rain in the city last evening, Delhiities on Saturday woke up to a clear sky with minimum temperature settling at 25.5 degree celsius, a notch below normal.According to Met department, the maximum temperature is expected to remain...

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Nursery admission in Delhi: Supreme Court notice to govt on quota plea

NEW DELHI: Can the Supreme Court order granting relief to inter-state transfer quota children in nursery admissions be confined to those whose parents had challenged scrapping of the category?A writ petition by Dinesh Kumar argued that it would not be...

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Nursery admission in Delhi: Supreme Court notice to govt on quota plea

NEW DELHI: Can the Supreme Court order granting relief to inter-state transfer quota children in nursery admissions be confined to those whose parents had challenged scrapping of the category?A writ petition by Dinesh Kumar argued that it would not be...

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Rs 1.2 crore Rajghat robbery: Two juveniles among four held

NEW DELHI: Four men, including two juveniles, have been apprehended for their involvement in the Rs 1.2 crore robbery at Rajghat in which a gang had punctured the tyre of a jeweller's car and fled with a bag containing jewellery.The incident was reported...

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Rs 1.2 crore Rajghat robbery: Two juveniles among four held

NEW DELHI: Four men, including two juveniles, have been apprehended for their involvement in the Rs 1.2 crore robbery at Rajghat in which a gang had punctured the tyre of a jeweller's car and fled with a bag containing jewellery.The incident was reported...

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AAP MLA arrested for thrashing Delhi Jal Board's junior engineer

NEW DELHI: The AAP legislator, who had allegedly thrashed a junior engineer of Delhi Jal Board after he refused to follow his instructions, was arrested today."We have arrested Prakash Jarwal, an MLA from Deoli, for assaulting a DJB engineer. The MLA...

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Government to install electronic toll lane at each public plaza

NEW DELHI: The road transport and highways ministry on Wednesday set the target to dedicate at least one electronic tolling lane at all government funded plazas during this fiscal.With indications that the Narendra Modi government won't be against toll...

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Restrictions imposed outside Delhi's Tihar jail

NEW DELHI: Restrictions were imposed outside Tihar jail here after AAP supporters staged a protest outside the prison in the wake of party leader Arvind Kejriwal being taken to jail on Wednesday following a court's order sending him to judicial custody,...

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Kejriwal meets wife, AAP leaders in Tihar jail

NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday went for a walk in the morning within Tihar jail premises, where he is lodged in a defamation case, and met his wife and some AAP leaders who had come to visit him.Kejriwal slept well...

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Man sets himself afire outside Delhi court

NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man on Thursday set himself on fire outside a court in New Delhi, police said.The man, identified as Sandeep, received 90% burn injuries. The incident occurred outside gate no.1 of Tis Hazari Court.The reason behind the extreme...

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Man jailed for 10 years for repeatedly raping stepdaughter

NEW DELHI: A man, convicted for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter for four months, has been sentenced to jail for 10 years by a Delhi court which observed that his "deplorable and unthinkable" acts do not deserve any leniency.The court handed...

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My aim will be to ensure that Dalits get equal opportunities: Udit Raj

From a champion of Dalit rights to the Dalit face of BJP—the party poised to lead India for the next five years—Udit Raj has come a long way. Raj was an IRS officer before he left government service to do social work and later joined politics. Durgesh...

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Sensors fail, fire destroys many files at police HQ

NEW DELHI: A major mishap was averted after a fire broke out at a special commissioner's office on the 10th floor of the Delhi Police headquarters early Sunday morning. Shockingly, not only were the fire alarms and smoke detectors found to be not working,...

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Governer to think on Delhi polls only after government formation at Centre

NEW DELHI: The possibility of early polls may be a talking point but lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung wants to wait and watch. He will review the status quo and form a view on Delhi's readiness for fresh polls only after government formation at the Centre....

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Cool weather in north to finally come to an end

NEW DELHI: Country's private weather forecaster Skymet on Tuesday said that the weather in India would be rainy in South and dry in North throughout the week.It also forecast that the cool weather in North India will finally come to an end in the absence...

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AAP legislator booked in Delhi for cheating

NEW DELHI: An AAP legislator was booked for allegedly cheating a 45-year-old man from his own assembly constituency, police said on Tuesday.A first information report (FIR) was registered on Monday at Ashok Nagar police station against MLA Manoj Kumar...

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Tarun Tejpal moves SC for release to attend mother's cremation

NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Tarun Tejpal, who is behind the bars in a rape case, on Monday sought from the Supreme Court his release to enable him to attend the cremation of his mother who died in Goa on Sunday. Appearing before a bench of justices...

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AAP's hope of getting office in Delhi dashed

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) hope of getting a built up office in Delhi has been halted at least for the next five years as the political outfit failed to get the status of a national party. However, it can get a plot to build its own office since...

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Poor show on home turf of bigwigs worries party

NEW DELHI: If a complete wipe out in Delhi Lok Sabha election is a bigger worry for Aam Aadmi Party, the worst headache has been party's poor show in all assembly segments represented by its most popular faces. Going by the poll trends, former chief...

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Man gets 14 years jail term for raping, sodomizing daughter

NEW DELHI: A man has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for raping and sodomizing his 20-year-old daughter, by a Delhi court which noted that he violated all limits of humanity and showed no repentance over his offence.Additional sessions judge...

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ITBP official run over by truck in Delhi

NEW DELHI: An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) official was run over by a truck here on Monday morning.The body of Kuldeep Chand Sharma, 55, was recovered from near gate number 3 of the Kashmere Gate Metro station in north Delhi at about 6am."Kuldeep...

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‘Dad, I got my girlfriend pregnant’: Delhi student’s prank gone wrong goes viral

NEW DELHI: A Delhi student's sense of humour took a real beating when he fooled his father into thinking that he had got his girlfriend pregnant.The only respite is that Prateek Verma's prank made him very popular. He secretly made a video of the episode,...

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Ready for assembly election in Delhi: Harsh Vardhan

NEW DELHI: Upbeat over party's spectacular victory in the Lok Sabha polls, Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said the party was ready for assembly election in the city "anytime soon" and exuded confidence of getting a clear majority59-year-old...

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NaMo speech sparks hope for rivers but Sabarmati no model, Guajarat rivers also polluted

NEW DELHI: PM-elect, Narendra Modi has raised hopes among environmentalists in Delhi with his promises to revive Ganga. They now hope the same energy is directed towards Yamuna's revival once he takes charge. But the "Sabarmati model" on which Modi wants...

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Won't support AAP again in Delhi, ready for election: Congress

NEW DELHI: Delhi Congress said on Sunday it will prefer fresh election in the city to supporting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) again to form a government as favoured by a section of AAP MLAs following the drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls.Chief spokesperson...

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DMRC changes rules for Metro travel cards

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is introducing some changes in its smart cards, including increasing the minimum add value to Rs 100 from May 21."As most of the Delhi Metro's smart card users are regular travelers and with the opening...

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Election results 2014: AAP plays cameo role, feels need to shed ‘activist’ character

NEW DELHI: When Arvind Kejriwal declared he would take on Narendra Modi in Varanasi, cries of 'bhagoda' rented the air of the holy city even before he had landed. BJP had its gameplan drawn up: use Kejriwal's dramatic resignation after an eventful 49-day...

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Election results 2014: Dramatic debut by Meenakshi Lekhi

Meenakshi Lekhi made a grand debut, defeating Congress heavyweight and former minister Ajay Maken by 1,62,708 votes. Maken, who also happens to be an AICC general secretary, trailed at the third place with 1,82,893 which was just about 18% of the total...

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Election results 2014: Rural belt swings it for BJP in Delhi

BJP's Mahesh Sharma won the seat, defeating his nearest rival Narendra Bhati of SP. BSP's Satish Awana and AAP's K P Singh came third and fourth respectively. Sharma rode an aggressive campaign in urban areas. Unlike in previous elections, the rural...

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Election results 2014: Clean sweep for BJP in Delhi

NEW DELHI: The saffron sweep didn't leave Delhi untouched. True to form, the Capital reflected the national mood, with all seven seats going to BJP while AAP finished second and Congress trailed at third.BJP's campaign sought votes on a one-point Modi-for-PM...

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Conflict of interest in setting norms for pharmaceuticals in WHO

NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation's (WHO) work of setting up norms and standards for production of medicines seems to be flawed by a fundamental conflict of interest. At the heart of its standard setting work is an entity the International...

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