No less than a court registrar and the deputy commissioner of police (DCP), in charge of the court’s security, learnt it the hard way when they were slapped with contempt notices.

The warehouse of the NGO, which provides un-utilized urban material for rural development, was seen to be gutted to the studs where it had stocked 'tons of materials'.

At Gita Ghat near Kashmere Gate Inter State Bus Terminus, the river, lit up with hundreds of lamps, came alive with festivities on this nippy winter evening.

The MHA has asked the Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi to reply to the points raised at the “earliest”.

At least 290 fire related calls were received at the Delhi Fire Service’s (DFS) control room till Wednesday midnight while last year, 220 such calls were received on Diwali.

The Delhi government maintained that 24-hour average values of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and PM 2.5 were lower this Diwali compared to last year, and claimed it was due to a sustained campaign.

Sources said the special investigation team (SIT) which is probing Sunanda’s death will approach the AIIMS medical board to analyse the viscera report. Following this, sources said, a further probe would be conducted .

While leaving for work Wednesday, he told Rachna, his wife of 11 months, that he would be back home by 3 pm, before Diwali celebrations began.

Police use gas cutters to recover body, send it for post-mortem.

Hours after his body was recovered, water minister Kapil Mishra sought a report from DJB officials on the incident.

The meeting was attended by the DDA vice-chairman, commissioners of North, South and East municipal corporations and other concerned senior officials.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday inaugurated two toilet complexes in Okhla Industrial area.

Referring to Dishit, Harsh Vardhan said that "there should be no politics over developmental works for the sake of Delhi".

The teacher, Sona Sachdev, had left the envelope behind accidentally, which the group claimed was theirs.

But the potters in South Delhi’s Hauz Rani are more optimistic and believe that their diyas will always be in demand.

On September 28, 50-year old Mohammad Akhlaq, a long-time resident of the village, was beaten to death over rumours of storing and eating cow meat.

The masks seal the face; they come with an active carbon layer and a plastic valve, which is shut when you inhale and opens when you exhale.

PM 10 and PM 2.5 levels will continue to be high days after the festival, says agency that monitors air quality.

Traffic jams clog streets in and around market areas, helpline receives hundreds of calls from those stranded.

The Delhi government’s environment department is considering introducing certain measures to bring down air and noise pollution levels

Meena is currently in-charge of two posts — he is the joint commissioner of New Delhi range and chief of the Anti-Corruption Branch.

While the government had earlier made a budgetary provision for 500 Mohalla clinics, the Cabinet decided to allocate Rs 209 crore to set up 500 more such clinics.

SAFAR issues health warning, says particulate matter levels to spike day after Diwali. PM 10 could go up to 956 micrograms per cubic metre, PM 2.5 to 450.

The panel stated this in its annual report after conducting a study on the reported shortage of Urdu teachers. A similar study on the shortage of Punjabi teachers is under way.