A 95-year-old woman who was allegedly being held captive by her daughter-in-law, was rescued by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Friday, November 9. According to reports, DCW, the women’s panel helpline, received a call from victim’s son complaining that his old mother was being held captive and tortured by[Read More…]
New Delhi: Taking an inspiration from the Aam Admi Party protest’s politics, agitating contractual workers of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) are planning to contest in upcoming Lok Sabha polls in all the seven parliamentary seats of Delhi to teach the ruling party a lesson. Agitating DTC workers are sitting on[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) contractual workers claim that they are facing a massive retrenchment drive by the management against the strike called on October 30. Agitating workers are sitting on a protest demonstration for the last 20 days at Indraprastha depot, DTC headquarter. “Around 1000 to 1500 hundreds[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) is offering free rides to women in its buses plying in Delhi-NCR on Bhai Dooj on Friday, the DTC announced on Thursday. The facility will be available to women between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. in both airconditioned and non-airconditioned buses, a DTC[Read More…]
New Delhi: DTC contractual workers on Thursday, the 18th day of their indefinite protest, appealed to the President of India to either intervene or allow them to commit suicide. “We have been sitting on a strike since October 22 and no authority has come forward to talk to us. Either[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court ban during Diwali was violated in full swing across Delhi and NCR with people bursting firecrackers till late night leading to thick haze on Thursday morning and deteriorating air quality, which experts say was six times higher than normal. “The Air Quality Index (AQI) of[Read More…]
New Delhi: After several days of suffering from ‘severe’ and ‘very poor’ air quality, the national capital on Wednesday surprisingly breathed better air in Diwali as its pollution level went down, improving the quality to ‘poor’. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) the overall Air Quality Index for[Read More…]
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday greeted the nation on the occasion of Diwali, the festival of lights. “Wishing all fellow citizens a happy and prosperous Diwali. May the festival of lights illuminate every home and every family,[Read More…]
New Delhi: The national capital and its surroundings continued to suffer toxic air quality on Tuesday with only a slight improvement from “emergency” to “severe” category. The Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi at 9 a.m. was recorded 403, on a scale of 0 to 500. The AQI on Monday[Read More…]
New Delhi: As many as 285 cases of dengue were reported in the national capital in the week ending November 3, compared to 290 in the previous week, according to a municipal report released on Monday. As per the latest report, 1,595 people have been diagnosed with the vector-borne disease[Read More…]
New Delhi: The iconic and much-awaited Signature Bridge on the river Yamuna was opened for the public on Monday morning, a day after its inauguration. The bridge, connecting Wazirabad across the river, reduced travel time between north and northeast parts of the city from 45 minutes to just 10 minutes.[Read More…]
A Delhi court on Monday acquitted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a criminal defamation case filed by a former aide of former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal granted relief to the AAP leader citing lack of evidence against him. The Arvind Kejriwal was accused by[Read More…]
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru: Three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Delhi developed an Android app to measure the alarming pollution levels in the National Capital Region (NCR), the US-based Marconi Society, which awarded them with a prize, said on Monday. “The three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth have[Read More…]
New Delhi: There was shallow smog on Monday in the national capital hampering visibility in the region that has already been facing ‘very poor’ air quality. The minimum temperature was recorded at 18 degrees Celsius, three notches above season’s average. According to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And[Read More…]
On Sunday, at the inauguration event of Delhi’s Signature Bridge, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari and his supporters clashed with the members of Aam Aadmi Party. As reported by ANI, Manoj said, “In my constituency, I restarted construction of the bridge after it was stalled for many years and now Arvind[Read More…]
Patanjali founder and controversial yoga guru Baba Ramdev wants to get special honour for ‘never getting married’ and said that the voting rights of people who have married and given birth to more than two children should be ceased. “Is desh mein jo hamari tarah se vivah na kare unka[Read More…]
The Narendra Modi government appoints journalist Arnab Goswami to the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society that takes decision-related to the memorial, as a replacement to the members who were critical of Centre’s decision to set up a museum for all Prime Ministers in the Teen Murti Bhavan in Delhi.[Read More…]
Delhi Patiala High Court receives a criminal defamation complaint against former Congress minister and MP Shashi Tharoor for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a scorpion on Shivling. Shashi Tharoor made a statement in Bengaluru during an event where he had compared PM Modi to a scorpion sitting on Shivling. A[Read More…]
New Delhi: Janata Dal-United national vice president Prashant Kishor (PK) soon after assuming the chair clears his priority and immediately held a meeting with the students and youth organisations leaders at the party headquarter in Patna. It is a welcome move and will be helpful in reviving the Chhatra Janata[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday met in New Delhi to prepare roadmap for 2019 Lok Sabha elections and announced to join hands with each other in the fight against the ruling BJP. “We have decided to put the past behind. The[Read More…]
Eminent boxer MC Mary Kom has treated her fans with an astonishing video which shows her in a friendly battle with Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. On Thursday afternoon in New Delhi, the five-time world champion and Olympic bronze medalist shared a video of the friendly match. She is seen[Read More…]
Delhi’s toxic air is once again in the news and today’s incident has further hampered Delhi’s image. The site of high pollution levels has been noted in two of the most prestigious Indian tournaments, Ranji Trophy and the Indian Super League. On the inaugural day of this session of Ranji[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Accusing the Punjab government for failing to control stubble burning of the harvested paddy crop, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday that the pollution level had deteriorated in the national capital after October 25. “We have seen abnormal increase in pollution level after October 25. This is[Read More…]
New Delhi: The price of non-subsidised LPG cooking gas will go up by Rs 60 per cylinder in New Delhi and that of subsidised one by a marginal Rs 2.94, effective November 1. According to the Indian Oil Corporation, the increase in prices of non-subsidised LPG cylinder is mainly due[Read More…]
New Delhi: Third section of the Delhi Metro’s Pink Line — connecting Trilokpuri to Shiv Vihar — was opened to public on Wednesday, bringing many hitherto unconnected east Delhi areas under the metro network. The section was formally inaugurated by Union Minister Hardeep Puri and Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi[Read More…]