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New Delhi, March 30 – Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta met with President Droupadi Murmu on Monday, a meeting that coincided with the anniversary of the historic March 30, 1919, Rowlatt Satyagraha incident in Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi.Gupta briefed her about the heroic incident, in which...

New Delhi, March 27 – The Delhi Assembly on Friday warned former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and two other AAP leaders for contempt of the House and propagating a "false and baseless narrative" regarding a "execution chamber" within the...

New Delhi, March 27 A BJP lawmaker on Friday raised a demand to rename Delhi as Indraprastha in the Budget Session of the Legislative Assembly.Poonam Sharma, a BJP MLA from Wazirpur, made her pitch through a special mention in the House sitting, saying it would connect the city to its roots...

New Delhi, March 24 The Delhi Budget 2026-27, presented by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta in the Assembly on Tuesday, allocated Rs 3,942 crore to the power department, including Rs 3,500 crore for subsidy payments and Rs 200 crore for undergrounding overhead wires.The budget also proposes the...

New Delhi, March 24 A 24-year-old gold trader and his father were allegedly robbed by four people in the Seelampur area of northeast Delhi, police said on Tuesday.The incident took place at 8:30 pm on Monday near the Welcome Metro Station when the complainant, Pratham Bansal, a resident of...

New Delhi, March 22 Hours after criticizing her own BJP-ruled municipal corporation (MCD) over the seizure of illegal liquor during a surprise inspection in Delhi's Chandni Chowk area on Sunday, Satya Sharma, the chairperson of the MCD's Standing Committee, stated that the matter was one of...

New Delhi, March 22 Illegal liquor was seized in the Chandni Chowk area of Delhi during a surprise inspection led by MCD Standing Committee Chairperson Satya Sharma on Sunday, officials said.In a statement and video shared on her official X handle, Sharma alleged lapses on the part of...

New Delhi, March 21 – Parts of the national capital awoke to dense fog on Saturday morning after rainfall the previous evening, reducing visibility in several areas.Similar weather conditions were observed across Delhi-NCR, including Delhi Cantt, North Ridge, Ghaziabad, and Noida, where a thin...

New Delhi, March 13 – Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said that the government plans to rename the Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation (SRDC) and expedite projects to restore the historic glory of Old Delhi.She said that as part of ongoing efforts, development works worth around...

New Delhi, March 13 The Delhi Police have arrested a 24-year-old Delhi University student for allegedly strangling a woman to death in a hotel room in the Old Delhi's Lahori Gate area, as the victim was "pressuring" him to marry her, an official said on Friday.Abhishek Tiwari, a resident of...

New Delhi, March 12 A young woman was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a hotel room in Old Delhi's Lahori Gate early Thursday, with police registering a murder case and launching a search for the man who had checked in with her, an official said.The deceased, who was around 25...

New Delhi, March 12 A 23-year-old woman was found dead under suspicious circumstances near a hotel in Old Delhi, police said on Thursday.The deceased lived with her parents, grandmother, and younger sister in Maujpur area of northeast Delhi and worked at a private company in Chandni Chowk...

New Delhi, March 8 A 27-year-old collection agent was allegedly robbed of a bag containing cash by four unidentified men on motorcycles in the Khajuri Khas area of northeast Delhi, police said on Sunday.The victim, Avinash, a resident of Old Seelampur, works as a collection agent for a scrap...

New Delhi, March 7 Three men, including an employee of a jewelry trader who allegedly absconded with Rs 54 lakh entrusted to him for a transaction in Chandni Chowk, north Delhi, have been arrested by the Delhi Police, an official said on Saturday.The accused have been identified as Rupesh...

New Delhi, March 6 The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is working with the Delhi Tourism and Transport Development Corporation on a plan to turn the historic Town Hall into a cultural hub for public use, officials said on Friday.The original idea, according to officials, was to use part of the...

New Delhi, March 3 Chandni Chowk MP Praveen Khandelwal said on Tuesday that his daughter, who had been stranded in Dubai for the past three days amidst the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, had safely returned to India.Khandelwal said his daughter had travelled to Dubai on a business...

New Delhi, March 1 Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday said that while Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal may defend himself, he "stands guilty" in the eyes of the people of the national capital and will not be "forgiven".Gupta said Kejriwal should not celebrate any relief at this...

New Delhi, February 28 – Three unidentified men allegedly robbed a 22-year-old shopkeeper of Rs 14 lakh at gunpoint in northwest Delhi's Model Town area, police said on Saturday. This is the second robbery to take place in a business establishment in the national capital within a week...

New Delhi, February 27 – Delhi’s air quality remained a concern on Friday as the Air Quality Index (AQI) remained in the ‘poor’ category, even as the national capital woke up to a cool and hazy morning with clear skies and a light breeze. The morning temperature settled around 14 degrees...

New Delhi, February 26 Praveen Shankar Kapoor, head of the media department of the Delhi BJP, wrote to Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Thursday, demanding an investigation into alleged attempts at land grabbing in the Chandni Chowk area.Kapoor alleged that...