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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the Delhi government’s decision to require an endorsement from the local MP or MLA for women seeking benefits under the ‘Delhi Lakshmi Yojana’, which provides financial assistance of ₹2,500 a month. A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said such an endorsement could not…
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More than half of the 1,218 flats offered under the Delhi Development Authority’s (DDA) ‘Karmajeevi Awaas Yojana 2026’ were booked on the first day, the agency stated on Sunday. As many as 661 flats were booked on the first day, with the 1-BHK units receiving a particularly strong response. The category was completely sold out…
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Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 26-year-old man in Lal Bagh, the police said on Sunday. They were nabbed after a manhunt was launched across Delhi and Uttarakhand covering around 550 km. The accused, Aman alias Mulla, 26, and Anuj alias Moni, 20, were arrested near Chappar toll plaza…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Safai Karamchari Union on Sunday said it will keep the small garbage collection vehicles, called auto-tippers, off the roads from Monday following the killing of a sanitation worker, identified as Anil Kumar, in east Delhi’s Kalyanpuri. The union leaders said they will meet MCD Commissioner Sanjeev Khirwar on Monday…
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The ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Delhi has cast an ominous shadow over women sex workers in Garstin Bastion (G.B.) Road brothels. Many of them don’t possess the documents listed by the Election Commission (EC) to verify their details or an extract of the previous SIR with their names or those…
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A 35-year-old man allegedly faked his own kidnapping after concealing his year-long unemployment from his family and falling into debt, the police said on Thursday. According to the police, the man, a resident of Rohini Sector 23, had been without a job for nearly a year but continued to leave home daily, pretending to go…
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Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, have performed bariatric surgery on a 32-year-old man weighing 209 kg after a month-long multidisciplinary intervention that reduced his weight, stabilised his breathing, and enabled a procedure initially considered high risk. The patient, with a body mass index (BMI) of 74 kg/m², suffered from…
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The Delhi government has hiked the remuneration of Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) personnel by 100% with immediate effect, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said on Sunday. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta stated that the move was long overdue and aimed at delivering justice to officials who have served as the backbone of the city’s disaster…
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The Delhi government has issued a show-cause notice to a private school in Vikaspuri over “life-threatening safety hazards and financial irregularities”. The school was found to be running 43 classrooms without fire safety clearance and had constructed an unauthorised tin-shed structure, according to an official statement from the Education Minister’s office. The government has given…
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For Delhi University students from outside the city, academic breaks are often the only window to travel home. But with a tighter academic calendar and fewer extended holidays in the new session, many said they are finding it difficult to plan trips around classes, assignments, and attendance requirements. The newly issued academic calendar has drawn…
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