3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 14, 2026 04:16 AM IST With pass percentages falling and the gender gap continuing to widen, Delhi fared poorer than last year in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 examination. The overall pass percentage stood at 91.97% in 2025-26 in the Capital, a drop from 95.18% last…
At Asola Bhatti, Delhi’s lone wildlife sanctuary, the threat to the forest is also green. Prepared by the Wildlife Institute of India, a 10-year management plan for Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary has found that Prosopis Juliflora alone covers 63.48% of the landscape, making the invasive tree one of the biggest ecological pressures on the Aravalli…
8 min readNoidaUpdated: May 14, 2026 08:39 AM IST Exactly a month since the workers’ protest in Noida, which turned violent on April 13, two accused – Aakriti Chaudhary (25), a history graduate from Delhi University who hails from Durgapur in West Bengal, and a former journalist from Lucknow, Satyam Verma – have been booked…
3 min readNew DelhiMay 14, 2026 04:24 AM IST In a rare instance of major penalty against a serving IAS officer, the Centre has removed Padma Jaiswal, a 2003-batch AGMUT cadre officer, from service on charges of corruption. Jaiswal, who is Special Secretary in the Administrative Reforms Department of the Delhi government, faces dismissal following…
4 min readNew DelhiMay 14, 2026 04:58 AM IST Days after The Indian Express reported a severe water shortage across several sectors in Dwarka, particularly in Cooperative Group Housing Society (CGHS) pockets, residents said on Wednesday that water supply has improved over the past few days, reducing dependency on tankers in some complexes, though the…
3 min readNoidaUpdated: May 13, 2026 01:23 AM IST Tricking people into downloading files on the pretext of helping them complete their credit card KYC process or redeem reward points, fraudulently gaining access to their credit cards, using the cards to buy gold or silver coins. A racket was thus operating in Noida until Tuesday…
3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 13, 2026 01:30 AM IST Twenty-three-year-old Rahul Meena, accused of killing the daughter of an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer in Southeast Delhi last month, deliberately chose a time when the victim was alone. This is among a key detail investigators are treating as central to establishing his criminal intent,…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 13, 2026 08:45 AM IST When the notification of reports of cancellation of the NEET-UG 2026 over paper leak flashed across his phone on Tuesday morning, over a week after he had appeared for his second attempt, 20-year-old Shubh Vardhan tried to stay calm. After months in Kota, Rajasthan, where…
3 min readNew DelhiMay 13, 2026 05:07 AM IST The MCD Standing Committee has decided to declare the last remaining 48 villages in Delhi as ‘urban villages’. According to the MCD, this will lead to systematic implementation of development works and improve delivery of civic amenities. Critics feel this is easier said than done. How…
3 min readNew DelhiMay 14, 2026 12:40 AM IST Two days after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested an inspector working with Delhi Police’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) in a corruption case, the probe agency told a Delhi court on Wednesday that there had been multiple calls between the accused and other officers of the…
