Senior BJP leader and firebrand politican Subramanian Swamy has now opened a front against the Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia in the Modi led union government. Swamy has termed Adhia as a corrupt officer and written a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday, seeking a demand for prosecution under[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) Delhi Minister for Environment and Forests Imran Hussain on Wednesday directed various departments to take strict measures against dust and other pollution emissions in the national capital ahead of winters and festive season. The city witnessed severe air pollution in the past two years, particularly[Read More…]
#StopKillingUs: Germiya Ongolu is a technocrat working as a chief technical officer with Ajantha Technologies, Bangalore has developed the technologies for stopping the manual scavengers entry in the main hole and sewers. Ongolu explains why and how he joined Safai Karmachari Andolan. Here he explains his innovation and its successful implementation.
#StopKillingUs: New Delhi, Bezwada Wilson, the founder of Safai Karmachari Andolan, speaks exclusively to Newsd about the plight of manual scavengers. He said, “Our demands are simple and clear. Stop people from entering the sewers who are involved in manual scavenging. The government should enable more technology into the shit[Read More…]
#StopKillingUs: Shyamvati, a resident of Loni, Ghaziabad is a female sweeper and a manual scavenger. She came to Jantar Mantar for participating in Safai Karmachari Andolan. She said that women manual scavengers need different jobs and their children also need a change of work. No more cleaning shit business. She also[Read More…]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who chairs the manual scavenging panel meet, directed the Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam to investigate why no meeting was held since December 2017 whereas the panel was supposed to meet every six months. The Delhi government Panel meeting held for the first time[Read More…]
While the rain had made Yamuna look comparatively cleaner in past few days, but one again the river wore a foamy look this week after thousands of Ganesha idols were immersed on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. The use of PoP idols was banned by NGT in 2015 as they[Read More…]
Two litigants who first filed the case against each other and later decided to withdraw cases, were directed by the Delhi High Court to plant 100 trees in the Capital as a “gesture of goodwill to society”. Justice Najmi Waziri allowed the request of two men to quash FIRs they[Read More…]
Eyeing the votes of the Pooravanchal people residing in the national capital, the BJP on Friday attacked the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for politically exploiting them and said that it is organising the ‘Poorvanchal Mahakumbh’ on September 23 to raise the issues faced by these people. “It[Read More…]
Partnership on developing world-class skill centres is on the cards as High Commissioner of Australia to India Harinder Sidhu called on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Thursday. During the meeting, Kejriwal and his Deputy Manish Sisodia informed Sidhu about the World Class Skill Centres in Delhi and the excellent[Read More…]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Chief Spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday said law and order system in the national capital has been “completely demolished” with BJP ministers thrashing people in the streets. Bharadwaj’s remarks came as he talked about a case where a senior citizen, Santosh Kumar Gupta (who narrated[Read More…]
Abhijit Iyer Mitra has been arrested and taken to Nizamuddin police station today on September 20th for making derogatory remarks against Odisha. Iyer is taken to hospital for a medical examination after which he will be produced before Saket court before taken on remand by Odisha police. However, he was[Read More…]
Aam Admi Party national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is all set to announce the name for Bihar AAP president tomorrow at his residence. It is speculated that Shatrughan Sahu is among the top contender for the post. A highly placed source in the party explains that the[Read More…]
Delhi police have apprehended a reckless job swindle of a multi-crore scam running in the government office rooms of Krishi Bhawan in Lutyens’ Delhi. Krishi Bhawan is a high-security office which has several central ministries running in the building. The fraudsters used to conduct fake job interviews in the building[Read More…]
Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party chief Manoj Tiwari gets a contempt notice from the Supreme Court for allegedly breaking the lock of a sealed house in east Delhi. He was booked under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code and 461 and 465 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act for his[Read More…]
Delhi government on Thursday cleared a number of proposals, including increasing financial assistance for maintenance of parks, installing CCTVs in government schools and ensuring safety of woman in public spaces. In one of the decisions, the Cabinet meeting chaired by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, approved the proposal to increase[Read More…]
The fatal stories of sewage cleaners in Delhi have become a regular thing now. Anil who was sewage cleaner died five days back in the national capital in a similar incident inside the sewage pipeline of DLF Capital Greens in Moti Nagar. The 28-year-old was cleaning the DJB sewer pit[Read More…]
Newly elected Delhi University Students Union President Ankiv Baisoya is found to have submitted fake mark sheet and certificate for admission in Delhi University. Newly elected DU President Ankiv Basoya of ABVP, furnished fake marksheet & certificate for admission in DU, from Thiruvalluvar University. When NSUI in Tamil Nadu wrote[Read More…]
An internal investigating committee report of the channel found Awasthi, guilty of misbehaving with Tyagi.
In the national capital Delhi, a transgender is allegedly beaten by a mob in Shahpur Jat area on Monday. A passerby on the road collided with a transgender coming from the other side in the area. He took it as an offence and started beating the transgender. The incident reportedly[Read More…]
Newly elected JNUSU General Secretary Aejaz Ahmad explains the sequence of events that followed post election results in JNU. He alleges, “JNU security guards are trying to protect the ABVP members. They are hand in glove with the administration. Our complaints are not being heard by the administration.” when asked[Read More…]
Newly elected Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union’s (JNUSU) president N Sai Balaji allegedly attacked by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members early Monday morning on September 17, just a day after the election result was declared. The ABVP, not content with the toxicity and violence they unleashed during the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi for visiting mosques and temples. “Rahulji is visiting temples, Modiji is visiting mosques. Nation building can’t be done by going to temples and mosques but by[Read More…]
Lucknow, Sep 16 (IANS) BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday took on Bhim Army leader Chandra Shekhar aka Ravana, saying she can “never have a relation with these sort of people”. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister also made it clear that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) must be given a fair[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday visited AIIMS to inquire about the health of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer. “Also spoke to the doctors who are supervising his treatment. I pray for his good health and quick recovery,”[Read More…]