NEW DELHI: Intensifying its enforcement drive against people causing pollution to ensure environmental compliance, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has issued 24 challans amounting to Rs 8.2 lakh from October 6 to 21.Officials said that the challans were imposed on sites for violating construction and demolition (C&D) guidelines. MCD has formed 511 surveillance teams, comprising 1,064 officials,...
Delhiites had a dandiya outing with Harshdeep Kaur over the weekend as the singer performed in the city for a dandiya festival. Though it was not Harshdeep’s first time performing at a garba festival, she told us she was excited to perform with her band. “I had created a special set list for this occasion. It was a mix of my popular Bollywood songs, some traditional folk songs, and fusion music. But...
NEW DELHI: The air quality in the national capital showed a marginal improvement on Monday and was recorded in the "poor" category. The city registered a maximum temperature of 31.5 degree Celsius, normal for this time of the year. The capital's 24-hour average air quality index stood at 313 on Sunday, deteriorating from 248 on Saturday.On Monday, the 24-hour average air quality index stood at 263 while...
NEW DELHI: Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai on Monday announced the discovery of eight new pollution hotspots in the national capital, augmenting the current count of 13. Delhi: Air Quality Index (AQI) hits very poor' category in the National CapitalIn response, special teams will be dispatched to these areas to investigate and address pollution sources.Following a meeting involving 28 government...
NEW DELHI: The share of waste burning in Delhi's air is likely to be around 2% for the next four days, according to the Decision Support System, which is the forecasting model under the Union ministry of earth sciences.However, experts have said the contribution of open burning in Delhi's air will rise significantly after winter sets in. Poor and homeless people tend to burn whatever they get to beat...
NEW DELHI: The air quality in the national capital worsned to 'very poor' with the Air Quality Index (AQI) at 302 on Sunday, as per data from System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) India.The air quality around Delhi University was recorded at 330 (very poor) at noon, while IGI Terminal T3 in New Delhi was at 313 against 276 in the morning hours, as per the latest data from...
NEW DELHI: A white Santro car, which had changed ownership several times, an Aadhaar card of a woman sex worker and a wrong phone number were what police had at hands while probing the case of a woman found dead, bound in chains. But these were the slim clues that helped them solve the case in less than 12 hours.The CCTV footage recovered from Block 18 of Tilak Nagar, where the Swiss woman's body was...
NEW DELHI: A hotel owner in his thirties and his eight-year-old son were allegedly stabbed to death in their sleep at their residence in central Delhi's Paharganj area, police said on Saturday. The gruesome discovery of their lifeless bodies took place in the afternoon when the hotel owner's wife and daughter, concerned by the lack of response to their repeated calls to the man's mobile phone, decided...
NEW DELHI: Delhi's minimum temperature on Saturday dropped to 15.8 degrees Celsius, three notches below the seasonal average.The city's air quality fell into the "poor" category. The maximum temperature for the day reached 31.4 degrees Celsius, a degree below the seasonal average, according to the IMD.Track the pollution level in your cityAccording to the IMD, the relative humidity ranged between 83...
NEW DELHI: A man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing of a woman, a Swiss national, whose body was found near a Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run school in West Delhi's Tilak Nagar area.The accused, identified as Gurpreet, was nabbed based on technical and manual intelligence.He is being questioned to ascertain the identity of the woman and details linked to the crime.The accused had...
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