Delhi News

Air quality in the national capital slipped into "moderate" category on Thursday as wind speed was weak and directions became variable.

For people flying out of Delhi on Thursday evening, the flight delays due to heavy rain in the city wasn't their only problem. Water leaking was reported at the baggage check-in area at Terminal 1 of Indira Gandhi International Airport, according to news agency ANI.

A group of students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday raised slogans against Union Minister Jitendra Singh , who was on campus to address a seminar on the government's decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370.

BJP leaders in the national capital are making optimum use of the platform offered by Ramlilas to reach out to the public this Dussehra, playing prominent Ramayana characters such as monkey warrior Angad and rain god Indra.

Heavy rain has hit Delhi, resulting in operations at the city airport being suspended for nearly half an hour this evening.

That Delhi's high-security jails are no deterrent for criminals is an open secret. It only gets further underlined by every shocking incident that comes to light of prisoners going to unimaginable lengths to carry on their illegal activities from behind the jail walls.

Delhi Metro will begin its operations on grey line from October 4, Friday. The 4.2 km-long corridor will connect urban village area of Najafgarh to the rapid transit network. The new corridor has three stations - Dwarka (interchange with Blue Line), Nangli and Najafgarh. Delhi Metro's Dwarka-Najafgarh corridor will be formally flagged off by Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at Metro Bhawan in the capital. Trial runs on the section had begun in July. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had earlier said the corridor is being extended by another 1.18 km till Dhansa Stand, which is likely to get completed by December 2020.

Four terrorists of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed have entered Delhi and are planning to strike during the festival season, inputs received by security agencies reveal. Airports across north India have been placed on high alert and security has been enhanced, say officials.

A undertrial prisoner at Delhi's Mandoli jail hid a surgical blade in his stomach. The matter came to light on Tuesday when an undertrial inmate named Sunil alias "Chooha", a resident of Trilokpuri, returned to the jail after appearing in a court hearing.

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Wednesday detected four live rounds of 7.65 mm calibre from the bag of a passenger during the pre-embarkation security check at Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital.

The air quality in the national capital was recorded in the "satisfactory" level on Wednesday but it is predicted to slip into the "moderate" category by Friday as wind direction changes to northwesterly.

A joint cleanliness drive was organised by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) staff at metro stations in the national capital today to mark 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Delhi Police adopts Gandhigiri to convince the shoppers to say no to plastic bags. On Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary on Wednesday the city police aim to identify shoppers with plastic bags and replace them with jute bags free of cost.

All selected candidates have been offered letters of intent for employment, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Atul Kumar Thakur said.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested in Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar area for stabbing his younger brother and slitting his throat, police said on Tuesday.