Delhi

It was Ajeet Bajaj, a Padma Shri awardee and his daughter Deeya's first attempt at climbing the Everest and despite life-threatening challenges, extreme weather conditions and the arduous nature of the climb, they came back home feeling wonderful and proud.

For two months a gang of thieves gave police a slip and went untraceable after every burglary. The trail went cold until on May 18, a special team of the Delhi Police led by senior officer Rohit Rajbir Singh caught one of them, while he was trying to escape after robbing a house in West Patel Nagar.

A heart harvested from a patient in Tamil Nadu's Madurai was on Wednesday transported through a "green corridor", created from the Delhi airport to a city hospital, in 13 minutes, officials said.

A 22-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in west Delhi's Tilak Nagar area, police said today. In a suicide note, the man, identified as Ajit Singh, accused the Managing Director and a Human Resources personnel of his office as the reason behind the extreme step.

The Delhi government will launch a "unique facility" of detailed maps at bus shelters today, which will provide details on bus routes and bus timings in addition to neighbourhood maps. The move is intended at improving the convenience for bus commuters, an official said.

A Delhi University student was allegedly thrashed by two men in the city's Bharatnagar area after an argument over removing scooter. The student, Harshit, was beaten with sticks, then attacked with an iron rod and was being strangled before he could manage to flee the spot.

The Delhi government on Wednesday directed 575 private schools in the city to refund to parents the excess fees charged by them with nine per cent interest.

The deputy chief minister was sent the notice today to join the probe, days after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was questioned for over three hours in connection with the matter, police said.

Delhi-NCR is likely to witness "thundery developments" in the later part of the day today. The maximum temperature was likely to hover around 44 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average. It was a sunny morning today with the minimum temperature at 26.7 degree Celsius, which is also the season's average.

A man has allegedly bitten off a person's ear in Delhi's Sultanpuri area. In a horrible turn of events, on Tuesday, at the dead of the night two men overpowered a person, who has been identified as Jitender Kumar, 28, reportedly after an argument.

A Delhi court on Tuesday sought the response of the city police on an application by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking a copy of a video and his statement recorded by the probe agency on May 18 in connection with the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash in February.

It was miraculous escape for a man crossing metro tracks in Delhi's Shastri Nagar last evening. 21-year-old Mayur Patel hopped across from one platform to the opposite one just as the train started moving.

The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested the son of one of the owners of a firecracker factory in outer Delhi where 17 people were killed in a massive blaze earlier this year, the police said.

The website of Delhi-based Jamia Millia Islamia University was hacked for the third time in 24 hours. Close to midnight on Tuesday, the website displayed a black screen, which showed several messages.The website was restored minutes later.

The Income Tax Department (ITD) has unearthed black money of over Rs 215 crore after it conducted multiple raids over the weekend against two real estate groups who were selling land and farm houses on the Yamuna plains to high-end investors in the national capital, officials said yesterday.