Tag: Delhi

Cold wave likely in Delhi

New Delhi, Jan 25: Delhi is in for another cold wave with the minimum temperature likely to drop by four degrees Celsius over the next two-three days, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday. The maximum is likely to settle around 16 degrees Celsius. Dense-to-very-dense fog is also predicted […]

Delhi’s minimum temperature dips, fog disrupts traffic movement

New Delhi, Jan 22:  Delhi’s minimum temperature dropped to 4.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal, on Friday even as foggy conditions disrupted traffic movement, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Moderate fog lowered visibility to 350 metres at Safdarjung and Palam, officials said. According to the IMD, […]

Delhi plans virus curbs as infections rise, critical-care beds run short

NEW DELHI – As India’s capital battles its worst phase in the coronavirus pandemic, authorities drew up plans on Tuesday to reinstate some curbs, such as lockdowns of some markets, if necessary, although elsewhere in the nation new infections are falling. India added 29,163 cases over the past […]

Delhi Assembly passes resolution against NPR, NRC

New Delhi, Mar 13: The Delhi Assembly passed a resolution on Friday against the National Population Register and the National Register of Citizens. At the one-day special session, which was held to discuss the NPR and the NRC, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal requested the Centre to withdraw them. “Me, […]

Devastating factory fire kills at least 43 in Indian capital

NEW DELHI — A fire believed to be caused by an electrical short circuit engulfed a building in India’s capital on Sunday where handbags and other items were made by workers earning as little as 2 dollars per day, killing at least 43 people. The blaze in New […]

Delhiites wake up to foggy morning, air quality moderate

New Delhi, Nov 30: A blanket of fog enveloped the national capital on Saturday morning with minimum temperature settling at 12 degrees Celsius. A MeT department official that relative humidity was 100 per cent at 8.30 am. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 24 degrees Celsius, he […]

World’s worst air: India’s pollution crisis in perspective

Wildfires have raged across California for about a month and air problems persist in China, but no other place on Earth is battling the scale and severity of the pollution that chokes large swathes of north India. (Click tmsnrt.rs/34BzfaO for an animated world map showing the amount of PM 2.5 […]

Clash between cops, advocates at Tis Hazari Court, police vehicles vandalised

New Delhi, Nov 2: Lawyers and police personnel clashed at Tis Hazari Court complex here on Saturday afternoon during which nine police vehicles were vandalised, officials said. Lawyers alleged that two of their colleagues were injured, including one in police firing, but the police denied that it had opened […]

Odd-even scheme returns to Delhi from Nov 4

New Delhi, Sept 13: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said the odd-even road rationing scheme will be implemented in Delhi from November 4 to 15. Kejriwal said the move was aimed at combating high levels of air pollution in winters when crop burning takes place in neighbouring […]

Dust storm forecast in afternoon in Delhi

New Delhi, Jun 11: A dust storm is expected to hit the national capital Tuesday afternoon, MeT officials said, as the city witnessed a cloudy sky in the morning. The minimum temperature was recorded at 30.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. A Met Department official said, […]

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