Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from New Delhi

ED Asst Dir arrested by CBI in Delhi for accepting bribe

ED official was accepting a bribe from a jeweller in lieu of giving relief to the jeweller's son in the case registered in ED. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Ouster of Bangladesh's prime minister will test India's regional power, with Beijing’s on the rise

The dramatic resignation of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina poses a dilemma for India’s government, and the South Asian powerhouse could even see its influence in the region wane, according to experts

The Independent UK

CBI takes over Delhi coaching centre deaths investigation

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday took over the Delhi coaching centre deaths case, in which three UPSC aspirants drowned in the basement in Old Rajinder Nagar. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Without building bye-laws, there will be only floods and fires, not smart cities

The coaching centre deaths in Delhi aren’t unprecedented. Twenty-seven years back, on a placid summer afternoon in south Delhi, 59 cinegoers perished in a fire at Uphaar theatre because all exits save one were blocked. Extra seating, in contravention of the approved capacity, was created by blocking the exits to…

Newslaundry

Delhi HC criticized civic agencies concerning death of woman, child in waterlogged drain in Ghazipur

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday expressed strong dissatisfaction with the functioning of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and its officials concerning a tragic incident in East Delhi's Ghazipur area where a mother and child died after falling into an uncovered drain.

Dynamite News

BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani admitted to hospital, kept under observation

New Delhi Veteran BJP leader Lal Krishan Advani was admitted to the Neuro Department of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital on Tuesday again around a month after being discharged.

Dynamite News

Security, foreign designs, new power centres: Delhi’s Dhaka concerns checklist growing bigger

The unceremonious end of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League’s 15-year regime in Bangladesh has meant a delicate set of new equations in India’s northeastern neighbourhood.

Newslaundry

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

ED files supplementary charge sheet against Lalu and Tejaswi Yadav

New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate filed its supplementary charge sheet on Tuesday against former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, former deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav and other accused in the land for job scam case in the Rouse Avenue Court.

Dynamite News

On front pages: Attacks on Hindu homes, Hasina’s phone call, and Delhi impact

From being seen as a miracle economy years ago, Bangladesh on Monday looked like a South Asian tragedy, with Sheikh Hasina fleeing the country and protesters storming her home. The contours of its interim government are yet to be defined while economic problems are likely to worsen.

Newslaundry

No happy endings for India on Hasina’s road to exit

Sheikh Hasina’s abrupt and dramatic exit from Bangladesh after resigning as prime minister, similar to the dramatic departure of Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka just two years ago, leaves Delhi with no friends in Bangladesh. Within hours of her exit, mobs tore down a statue of the liberator of Bangladesh,…

Newslaundry

Mesmerising places in India to add to your bucket list

Hand-carved temples, addictive cities, serene ashrams, and magical wildlife-spotting opportunities await in India

Woman & Home

Delhi Excise Policy: HC rejects CM Kejriwal plea challenging his CBI arrest

Regarding the bail application, the court has disposed of it, granting Kejriwal the option to approach the trial court for further relief. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

LG has power to nominate 'aldermen' in MCD, pronounces Supreme Court

Reacting to the verdict, Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said on Monday that it was a “blow to democracy.” Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Fiscal environment, GST: States struggle to raise health spending

Unable to eat, and depending solely on oral rehydration solutions, Ahmed* (40) spent the last 15 days of his life hoping to get an endoscopic procedure at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, 350 km away from his hometown in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. He died on July…

Newslaundry

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Dynamite News

DN Exclusive: Expose of 14 deaths in Delhi shelter home; Diet half, filthy environment

The women staff members who have been working in the shelter home for many years have made big revelations on the camera of Dynamite News. Must follow the story:

Dynamite News

Bus collides with car on Lucknow-Agra Eway; Seven killed, several injured

A double-decker bus going from Raebareli to Delhi collided with a car at around 12:30am. The car was going to Lucknow. Read further on Dynamite News:

Newslaundry

In Delhi, Muslim drivers ‘hide identity’, avoid kanwar yatra route ‘fearing targeted violence’

“Mahaul theek nahi hai. Hifazat kare…Jo bhi community stickers laga rahe hai apne mazhab ke, usse bhi kahin na kahin problem ho raha hain. Hum threat mein hain (The environment is not good. Be careful…whoever is putting religious stickers, that too is creating a problem somewhere. We are under threat).”

Dynamite News

Shelter Home Tragedy: NHRC notice to Delhi Govt over death of 12 inmates

The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that 12 inmates died between July 15 and July 31 at the Delhi government-run shelter home. Read further on Dynamite News:

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Newslaundry

TV Newsance 261: UPSC aspirants’ deaths bring Godi media anchors to ground zero

This week started off with a tragedy as three UPSC aspirants drowned in the basement library of a coaching institute due to rainwater flooding in Delhi’s Karol Bagh. It soon triggered the usual blame game between the BJP and AAP.

Newslaundry

‘Risk to life, exams’, but students continue protest over Delhi coaching centre tragedy

On July 27, in the wake of the death of three IAS aspirants in the basement library of Rau’s IAS coaching centre in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, the students residing in the area took to the street to protest against administrative lapses that purportedly led to the tragedy.

Newslaundry

No official questioned, MCD files unseized: Why HC handed over coaching centre probe to CBI

The Delhi High Court has handed over the probe into the death of three IAS aspirants in an illegal basement library to the CBI from the Delhi police, and said the Central Vigilance Commission would supervise it.

Dynamite News

Kejriwal’s government in full swing to combat air pollution in winters

The Arvind Kejriwal government has started preparations in full swing to control air pollution in winter. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Delhi coaching centre deaths: Court issues notice to Delhi police on plea seeking preservation of CCTV footage

Delhi's Tis Hazari court on Friday issued a notice to Delhi Police on a plea seeking the preservation and production of CCTV footage of the place of the drowning incident and its vicinity in Old Rajender Nagar. Read further on Dynamite News:

Newslaundry

IWPC seeks action against cops who ‘stopped’ journalist from covering Cong protest

Two days after Navbharat Times assistant editor Poonam Pandey was allegedly detained while covering a Congress protest on women’s quota in Delhi, the Indian Women’s Press Corps condemned the incident and sought an inquiry.

Newslaundry

Before Delhi coaching hub deaths, plea in HC pointed to 18 buildings ‘intact’ despite MCD ‘demolition’

Three months before the three coaching centre deaths in Delhi’s Karol Bagh zone and an official crackdown against illegal constructions, the Delhi High Court had disposed of a petition which accused the Municipal Corporation of Delhi of inaction over 18 unauthorised constructions in the same municipal zone.

1 … 23 24 25 26

People

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Bharatiya Janata Party

the Enforcement Directorate

Enforcement Directorate

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.