Delhi-NCR

ASI assaulted in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh

3 held in Noida with 105 kg cannabis sourced from Odisha

10:27 pm January 3, 2020

Noida (UP): Three people have been arrested here while allegedly transporting over a 100 kg cannabis in a truck from Odisha to Delhi, police said on Friday. The suspects were held late on Thursday night during a checking at the T-Series roundabout under the Sector 20 police station area, a senior official said. “Around 105 […]

Delhi freezes at 2.4 deg C; coldest day of season, fog affects air and rail traffic

7:14 pm December 28, 2019

New Delhi: The national capital on Saturday recorded its coldest day of the season as the minimum temperature plummeted to 2.4 degrees Celsius in the morning, officials said. Dense fog enveloped the city reducing visibility and affecting air traffic and vehicular movement in the streets. Mercury fell to its lowest in Delhi this season with […]

Delhi in for its second-coldest December since 1901

9:29 pm December 26, 2019

New Delhi: With a numbing cold continuing to sweep through Delhi-NCR, the region is expected to record its second-coldest December since 1901, the weather department said on Thursday. “The mean maximum temperature for December was less than 20 degrees Celsius only in 1919, 1929, 1961 and 1997,” an official of the India Meteorological Department said. […]

Delhi records coldest day of season at 7 degrees Celsius

10:04 pm December 18, 2019

New Delhi: Delhi recorded the coldest day of the season on Wednesday, with the minimum temperature settling at 7 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal. The maximum temperature was recorded at 18 degrees Celsius, five notches below normal, an official of the meteorological department said. The humidity levels oscillated between 97 and 61 per cent. […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Man disguised as tourist to supply illegal arms arrested

7:14 pm December 2, 2019

New Delhi: A 32-year-old man who disguised himself as a tourist to carry illegal arms and supplied them to criminals in Delhi-NCR was arrested from southwest Delhi’s Jaffarpur Kalan, police said on Monday. Harish Kumar alias Sunda would carry a bag and blend among tourists coming to Delhi in buses to deliver illegal weapons to […]