Lt Governor Najeeb Jung visited several hospitals across the city on Sunday. Stressing on “special attention” to the elderly, he took stock of their preparedness in dealing with the rising number of chikungunya and dengue cases in the national capital. His inspection comes a day after the ruling AAP government[Read More…]
Posted as Deputy Director General (DDG) at the engineering department in Doordarshan, officer, Jayant Kharche has been missing since Friday afternoon. According to the reports, he had left for a meeting from his office on Friday afternoon and decided to walk to the venue of the meeting since it was[Read More…]
LG Najeeb Jung has asked deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia to cut short his trip to Finland and return to Delhi. Chief secretary Kewal Sharma had been asked to send an email and contact Sisodia’s hotel. With eight chikungunya deaths in the capital, the ruling AAP govt has been facing a lot[Read More…]
A St. Stephen College student recently shared a harrowing incident on Facebook Page Pinjra Tod which went viral. The girl described the incident which took place on 8th September in her PG in Lajpat Nagar where she found a drunk intruder with his ‘pants down’ in her Kitchen. She pulled[Read More…]
For Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain Google is the most reliable source of information as according to him chikungunya cannot cause deaths because the search engine told him so. The minister said that four of the five supposed chikunguniya deaths in Delhi were reported from the same hospital, which seems ‘suspicious’. Jain[Read More…]
As the national capital reels under chikungunya, witnessing five deaths in the past three days, an all-out verbal war has broken out between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party. The former has accused the Delhi Government of negligence and pointed out towards the absence of its ministers,“The[Read More…]
Delhi reels under the unexpected or rather ‘much’ expected bout of chikungunya, dengue and other mosquito vector borne diseases. Till now, chikungunya which is a “non-fatal” disease has claimed three lives on Monday and at least 10 people have died of dengue and malaria. As Delhi hospitals overflow with patients,[Read More…]
Even as the Chief Justice of India TS Thakur on Sunday reiterated the urgent need to increase the number of judges in India, the apex court on Monday will hear a plea seeking the setting up of a “public body”, independent of the executive and judiciary, to ensure fair appointment[Read More…]
The United Left has claimed victory over 14 councilor seats in Jawaharlal Nehru University’s three of the largest schools. The remaining one seat in the combined seats of School of Languages, School of International Studies and School of Social Sciences has been claimed by Democratic Students’ Federation (DSF). An alliance[Read More…]
ABVP, the student wing of BJP won three of the top posts of Delhi University Students’ Union, but ceded one position to the Congress’s student wing NSUI. The elections of DUSU were held on Friday. Over 36% of cast their ballots and the voting percentage recorded a drop by 7%.[Read More…]
The students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Delhi University (DU) vote to elect their representatives for the students unions on Friday. Currently, voting is underway in the two politically charged campuses and the nerve centres of student politics in Delhi. The JNU elections are the most closely watched one after[Read More…]
As Aam Admi Party supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday departed from New Delhi railway station to campaign for the party in Punjab, he was met with protests by workers of BJP’s women wing. Police officers were seen frantically scrambling around him to provide him with security cover as BJP[Read More…]
Breaking: Fali Nariman to assist Supreme Court in suo motu petition over Sushant Rohilla suicide The Apex Court of India has agreed to hear the appeal filed by Sushant Rohilla’s family and friends. It has been more than three weeks since Sushant rohilla a student of Amity Law School (IPU) committed suicide[Read More…]
Coming down hard on the strike declared by the nurses union in state-run hospitals, the Delhi government on Friday invoked the stringent ESMA declaring the agitation as illegal. Even as a two-year-old girl died of dengue in the capital on Thursday, taking the total death toll to eight, the city hospitals are[Read More…]
As the capital reels under the burden of heavy rain, creating a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes, prevention is the only way one can hope to stay away from chikungunya, dengue and other similar vector borne diseases. Chikungunya is caused by the bite of Aedes mosquitoes, the cases of which[Read More…]
Heavy showers and waterlogging brought Delhi and other parts of the national capital region to a standstill on Wednesday morning. United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who is in the capital, was among the thousands who were affected by the Delhi showers. His proposed visit to three religious sites[Read More…]
Delhi woke up to heavy rains on Wednesday and within hours severe water-logging and traffic jams were reported from various areas of Delhi, Gurugram and Noida. Several flights too were delayed due to bad weather and people took to social media to tweet about weather conditions and traffic jams at[Read More…]
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who was scheduled to visit shrines in Delhi today, had to cancel his trip due to heavy rains in Delhi. Kerry courted controversy on Monday when he let out his plans to visit a gurdwara, temple and mosque—giving a gentle reminder to Modi ‘regime’[Read More…]
Najeeb Jung, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (LG) has escalated the tiff between the Centre and Delhi’s AAP government by setting up a three-member committee to look into all 400 files obtained from various departments. These contain decisions taken by the AAP government without LG’s prior sanction. The committee consists of three[Read More…]
Just In: In the Sushant Rohilla suicide case, an Amity University officials have confirmed the resignation of Isheeta Rutabhasini and BP Sehgal, the two people who were allegedly harassing Sushant for attendance. Also read:Amity Student Suicide: Faculty sent on “forced leave” as students protest Sushant Rohilla, a student of ALS,[Read More…]
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AOL) organisation, which claims that it believes in the philosophy of a stress-free mind and a violence-free society, has actually destroyed the environment. A report by a committee of experts which was directed by National Green Tribunal to assess the damage[Read More…]
On Wednesday, an e-rickshaw driver was hit by a speeding tempo and left to bleed to death. Captured on a CCTV camera, no one stopped to help 40-year-old Matibool, barring a thief who paused to steal his mobile phone. Several people are seen walking by and even examining him, but[Read More…]
According to data compiled by the Delhi police regarding crimes against women between 2012 and 2015, at least four women were raped and nine were molested every day on an average. After 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case much was promised about women’s safety but seems like the situation is deteriorating.[Read More…]
An RTI filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Harish Khurana reveals that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has never called a meeting on the law and order situation in the national capital or on the safety and security of women since assuming office—February 14, 2015, to June 9, 2016.[Read More…]
The Delhi High Court gave its verdict on the tussle between the Centre and state on the jurisdiction of the national capital region on Thursday. For a quick wrap of what went down, the court said Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung is the administrative head and does not need to act[Read More…]
