Delhi – NCT

Regular visitors to Heera Devi’s home in south Delhi’s Sangam Vihar were in for a surprise when they knocked on her door on Monday night. They were looking for country liquor, but the 43-year-old woman, a bootlegger in Delhi’s biggest unauthorised colony, offered them milk packets instead. A

Residents of Lutyens’ Delhi will soon be able to discard their electronic waste in an environment-friendly manner and will also be able to earn some extra money in the process. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will start a facility for door-to-door collection

In a step towards offering health care to all 24x7, the city’s Safdarjung hospital will run its out-patient department (OPD) for 12 hours a day under a Union ministry of health pilot project, becoming India’s first government hospital to do so. Under the project, OPDs for key departments, including

At a time when the city’s residents are up in arms to prevent thousands of trees from being felled, another Delhiite — Tarun Jha — is trying to make a difference in a unique way. A fashion and commercial photographer by profession, 38-year-old Jha undertook a 1,200km journey to Leh in Ladakh on a

In a first-of-its-kind move, the government is planning to showcase artifacts repatriated from abroad and confiscated by Indian authorities, while being smuggled out, at a state-of-the-art museum to be set up at Purana Qila in Delhi by the year end, according to Archaeological Survey of India (ASI),

Dealy in transportations of a heart from Madurai to Delhi almost killed the chances of Rajiv Trehan getting a transplant. However, in an extraordinary show of quick thinking and surgical precision, doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital managed to perform the surgery by tweaking the procedure. In a heart

Six months ago, Champa Lal developed stomach pain that he presumed to be a case of acidity. The Bikaner resident tried antacids and home remedies, but his stomach kept bloating and there came a point when he started to look like a pregnant woman. The 62-year-old then approached Sir Ganga Ram

The state of affairs of most Municipal schools, around the country, are pretty bad. The results are too not very encouraging. And if we talk of extra curricular activities they are mostly not to be seen. One voluntary organisation, or a NGO, a term that is commonly used - Marwari Yuva Manch of South

Doctors at AIIMS-Delhi have successfully performed a hip joint replacement surgery using a 3D printed medical implant. A multi-disciplinary team of doctors, including orthopaedic and vascular surgeons and critical care specialists, replaced the right hip joint of 40-year-old Amit Bahnot using 3D

It is the most unlikely film crew — 14 underprivileged children from slums across New Delhi — who defied the odds to shoot a documentary showcasing their lives and aspirations. And on Wednesday, their efforts bore fruit. Their film, ‘Delhi Dreams’, was screened at the British Pavilion of the 71st

The strike called by resident doctors at AIIMS didn't deter the hospital's doctors from taking up a unique challenge on Friday - conducting three simultaneous transplants. The family of an 18-year-old boy who was declared brain dead offered to donate his organs on Friday afternoon. By evening, his

The long-awaited Jewar airport in Greater Noida, which got the Centre’s final nod on Monday, could be connected by at least two different train systems to Delhi. The UP government is examining the feasibility of having a dedicated Rapid Rail Transit System (RRTS) corridor from Sarai Kale Khan to the