An investment of Rs 1,91,155 crore has been proposed for the 90 cities under the Smart Cities project, Urban Development Minister Hardeep Puri said on Monday, a day after Congress President Rahul Gandhi said only seven per cent of funds for the project had been used. An official statement issued[Read More…]
The Delhi government on Monday said that the ration distribution in all 2,254 fair price shops has been made online and will now be managed through the electronic Point of Sale (e-PoS) devices. The Aadhaar-based e-PoS machines would use biometric identification to ensure that ration card-holders get their allotted share[Read More…]
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday wished the nation on the occasion of New Year. “Happy New Year to everybody. May 2018 bring laughter, friendship, and prosperity to all our families, to our country and to our unique and beautiful[Read More…]
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant on Friday demanded a judicial probe into the fire at a pub in Mumbai in which 14 persons were killed, while raising the issue in the Lok Sabha. The issue was first raised by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kirit Somaiya who said the pub[Read More…]
Delhi government’s first priority is to upgrade education, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said after launching a mobile app that would connect about 16,000 members of School Management Committees (SMCs). “Upgrading education is number one priority of our government and for that, we are working constantly for launching various schemes[Read More…]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said the meeting between alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and his mother and wife lacked “humanity” and “goodwill” accusing Pakistan of conducting it as a “propaganda exercise” and “an opportunity to exploit the situation”. Sushma Swaraj was making a statement in the Rajya[Read More…]
The Delhi government is set to launch centres for automated driving license tests that will be conducted in the absence of any official but through cameras installed around, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot said on Tuesday. The first such centre will be brought in Sarai Kale Khan on January 26, he[Read More…]
A bill to extend the deadline for a law to protect slums and other unauthorised colonies in the national capital till 2020 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second (Amendment) Bill, 2017 was tabled in the lower House by[Read More…]
Congress Working Committee members said on Friday that “struggle for people” will be the way forward for the party and urged President Rahul Gandhi to prepare a comprehensive strategy in view of the coming electoral battles. Briefing reporters about the first meeting of the party’s highest decision-making body chaired by[Read More…]
Two-time former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and suave Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor are likely to make it to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), either as permanent or special invitees to the party’s highest decision-making body, according to the buzz in Congress circles in Kerala. Rahul Gandhi, who has[Read More…]
Former Supreme Court judge, Justice GS Singhvi, who in 2012 pronounced the cancellation of 122 2G spectrum licences, on Friday said the case before the top court was the allocation of spectrum without auction, while the CBI court was to see whether there was a conspiracy in the allocation. “The[Read More…]
Inderjit Singh Sandhu, one of the masterminds of the sensational Nabha jailbreak in Punjab, has been arrested from the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi, Punjab Police said on Wednesday. Sandhu, against whom a lookout notice was issued by the Punjab Police, was detained by immigration authorities after it was[Read More…]
Amid the BJP’s election victories in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and her daughter Priyanka Gandhi met Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday. Rahul Gandhi had campaigned in Gujarat extensively before assuming the charge of party President on December 16. After Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka left, Rahul[Read More…]
The BJP Delhi unit on Friday accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of showing “double standards” on the issue of fee hike in private schools in the national capital. “Nowadays, parents of students of private schools are getting notices to pay Rs 10,000 to Rs 40,000 extra fees to these schools,”[Read More…]
The Delhi government will launch a mobile application on Saturday through which Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes, minorities, and handicapped persons can apply for employment loans, SC and ST Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said here on Friday. The mobile application will be launched by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal[Read More…]
The Delhi government on Friday cancelled the licence of Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh after doctors erroneously declared a newborn dead. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the licence stands cancelled “with immediate effect”. (IANS)
Even as the DCW said a woman was beaten up and paraded naked here on Thursday after she helped in a raid in north Delhi against illegal sale of liquor, police denied it and said two women have been arrested for physical assault. Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati[Read More…]
The Delhi government on Wednesday assured the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it will bring the next Odd-Even traffic rationing scheme as per the tribunal’s direction that includes “no exemptions”. The NGT has directed the Delhi government and neighbouring states to clarify their action plans and how they would implement[Read More…]
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday released a white paper on air pollution in the national capital, saying the people of Delhi have a right to breathe, but the central and Delhi government are preventing it. The white paper was prepared at the direction of party’s Delhi unit President Ajay[Read More…]
Hitting out at his detractors within the AAP, its founder-member Kumar Vishwas on Sunday said the party needed an anti-virus system to get rid of “viruses that have been destroying it”. “Anti-virus system will be set up in the party and that will include party workers,” Vishwas told the media.[Read More…]
The Delhi High Court on Friday said that Republic TV news channel’s right to air stories on the death of Sunanda Pushkar cannot be curbed, but it has to be “tempered and balanced”, and that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor cannot be “compelled to speak”. The court also came down on[Read More…]
Senior IAS officer Ajay Kumar was on Tuesday appointed as the new Secretary, Defence Production, in the Defence Ministry, a government order said. A 1985-batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, Kumar is at present Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. He has been appointed to the[Read More…]
A coach of a New Delhi-Ghaziabad passenger train derailed at Okhla Railway Station on Tuesday, an official said. No one was hurt. Northern Railway spokesperson Nitin Chowdhary told IANS: “The wheel of one coach — second from motor coach of the MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit), came off the rail[Read More…]
Hadiya or Akhila Ashokan told the Supreme Court on Monday that she wants her freedom. “I want my freedom,” she said the court in the Kerala ‘love jihad’ case. The SC in its October 30 order directed Hadiya’s father to present her in the court to ascertain her opinion on[Read More…]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the steep hike in fares will kill the Metro. “This steep hike in metro fare will kill Delhi Metro. If people stop using it, then what purpose does it serve,” Kejriwal tweeted. The Chief Minister was referring to media reports on Friday[Read More…]