Amid heavy rainfall in the national capital, the Delhi Traffic Police on Wednesday received over 50 complaints regarding waterlogging issues from across Delhi from 6 pm till midnight.
"On reaching the above incident spot, it was found that Tanuja and her child Priyansh, who were going to the weekly Budh Bazaar held in the Ghazipur Police Station area, East Delhi, fell into a waterlogged semi-constructed drain and drowned," said the police.
Taking to her official handle on microblogging site X, Atishi posted on Wednesday, "In light of the very heavy rainfall today evening and the forecast of heavy rainfall tomorrow, all schools--government and private--will remain closed tomorrow."
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Vinai Kumar Saxena, has cautioned all officers to remain alert in light of the ongoing heavy downpour in the national capital.
She added that the report highlighted that the drain present in the area was the main reason for the waterlogging and that the library set up in the coaching center was illegal.
In the wake of the accident related to the loss of lives due to waterlogging in the basement of Rau's IAS coaching institute located in Old Rajinder Nagar, students held protests for the fulfilment of their demands.
In the wake of the accident related to loss of life due to waterlogging in the basement of Rau's IAS coaching institute located in Old Rajendra Nagar, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Additional Chief Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, Nitin Gokarn, on Tuesday issued directions to development
Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj has called out the lack of action by senior officials in response to the waterlogging crisis amid a huge uproar in the country over the death of three students at a coaching institute in Rajendra Nagar.
Following the devastating deaths of three students at a coaching institute in Old Rajinder Nagar due to severe waterlogging, Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Monday mentioned that she reached the spot immediately after receiving the information and took stock of the incident and further assur
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday formed a high-level committee to investigate the flooding of the basement of a coaching institute which led to three civil services aspirants' deaths due to drowning in the Delhi's old Rajinder Nagar.
Amid the escalating political blamegame over the Rajinder Nagar waterlogging incident that claimed lives of three students, Aam Admi party leader Sanjay Singh questioned the BJP's inaction during its 15-year tenure in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).