HC asks police to shift LGBTQ couple to safe house, provide security

The Delhi High Court Friday directed the police to shift a LGBTQ community couple, wanting to get married and facing threat from families, to a safe house set up by the Delhi government and provide them adequate security. Justice Mukta Gupta directed the SHO of Mayur Vihar Phase-I police station to ensure that the couple […]

Tilak Nagar market in Delhi closed for Covid protocol violations

Several markets in the Tilak Nagar area have been closed by the sub-divisional magistrate till July 27 following violations of Covid protocols, officials said on Friday. Jitender Singh, the sub-divisional magistrate of Patel Nagar, on Thursday ordered the closure of Tilak Nagar markets comprising Mall road, main market, Mangal Bazar road, old market and fruit […]

COVID-19: Delhi HC to resume physical functioning from Aug 16 on experimental basis

The Delhi High Court Thursday said it may on experimental basis resume from August 16 its physical functioning which was restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An administrative order of the high court said this will be done in a restricted manner subject to further orders based on evaluation of the situation of the pandemic […]

Solo in a war zone

Safety of journalists covering war affected areas is also the responsibility of their employers  Photojournalist par excellence, Danish Siddiqui, died at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Danish was there to cover the Afghan conflict that was triggered by the recent decision of the new Biden administration in the US to withdraw all US […]

Can Delhi resist the third wave?

Even though the government denies a record of any death due to lack of oxygen, the horrors of the last wave still haunts the citizens. With the probability of an upcoming Covid-19 third wave, the capital city amps up its healthcare facilities to fight it better — unlike last time The number of Covid cases, […]

Capital’s civic mess

Covid era has seen Delhi’s containment zones battling civic issues; public and community toilet facilities remains in  shambles — with 1 toilet for 55 women in slums Delhi is far from being a capital city of top-notch civic management. In fact, there are far too many sights of inadequacy, areas where people still don’t receive […]

Delhi’s unending parking woes

In 2019, the Supreme Court called parking one of the “most serious problems of Delhi.” Two years later, the picture remains the same It’s 4 o’clock in the evening, when three traffic police personnel were towing four bikes on a police truck. These vehicles were parked near Malai Mandir, of Vasant Vihar region, a ‘no […]

Sarojini Nagar market remains closed in protest against SDM order

The Sarojini Nagar markets’ associations kept shutters down of the shops, including the main section, Babu market and mini market, on Tuesday to protest against an SDM order that directed closure of the export market. The export market was closed on Sunday for “grossly” violating COVID-19 norms, according to an official order from the sub-divisional […]