Delhi—a city and union territory of India containing the country’s capital, New Delhi—continues to grow in population, posing challenges to civic agencies in the provision of citizens’ essential needs.
New Delhi: Your humble driving licence is all set to go high-tech. The state cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to the introduction of smart card based driving licences in Delhi as per the instructions of the Union ministry of road transport and highways (MORTH). What's more, the fees is also set to come down from Rs 370 to Rs 280.
It will be spread over six acres and is expected to stock 3,500 tree species NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government's Environment and Forests Department began work on the Capital's fifth new city forest at Rewla-Khanpur-II in Najafgarh Block here on Tuesday. Over 200 schoolchildren from nearby localities planted more than 2,000 saplings in the presence of State Principal Secretary P.K. Tripathi.
Works relate to power, land, irrigation and flood control Rs.126.18 crore project sanctioned to meet power requirements of West Delhi and provide power to DMRC PWD to undertake project to build road over-bridge, under-bridge at railway level crossing near Nand Nagri NEW DELHI: The Expenditure Finance Committee of the Delhi Government has given its nod to seven new projects amounting to Rs.347 crore. Four projects relate to the Public Works Department and one each to power, land and building and irrigation and flood control departments.
The Delhi University (DU) will soon get a rehabilitation centre to help students quit smoking and drinking, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a programme on "smoking-free campus" organised by the students' union organisation. "The Delhi University is leading the anti-tobacco programme and I promise that very soon the varsity will get a rehabilitation centre," he said. According to World Lung Organisation data, out of the 40,000 students studying in the North Campus of the university, 24 per cent boys and seven per cent girls are smokers.
The Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) of the Delhi government has given its nod to seven projects worth Rs 347 crores. The approved projects include four of the PWD department and one each to power, land and building and Irrigation and flood control departments.
Raju William Tribune News Service Gurgaon, July 22 Thousands of commuters between Gurgaon, Delhi and the National Capital Region may feel relieved as 23 CNG-operated buses, including seven low-floor air-conditioned ones, will start plying from tomorrow. The step follows the start of two CNG filling stations here.
In a shocking incident, a huge girder crushed a passing vehicle and seriously injured the driver, after it allegedly fell at a Metro construction site near the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital last week. Attributed to a crane malfunction, the falling debris destroyed the car, while the driver allegedly sustained multiple fractures, according to the sources. This comes hot on the heels of the widely reported Supratim Dutta incident, wherein an angle had gone through the body of the HCL employee after he met with an accident at the MG Road Metro site earlier this month.
Hundreds of residents of the Pushpa Bhavan area spilled out on streets and picketed the Pushpa Bhavan bus station on the BRT corridor. They demanded that all such stations on the stretch should be moved back to the sides of the roads. Arguing that the government had accepted the failure of the BRT model with stations in the centre of the road and decided to shift them in the next stretch, residents demanded the same for the Pushpa Bhavan stretch.
NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the Sheila Dikshit Government's move to issue provisional regularisation certificate to unauthorised colonies by organising camps amounted to misleading the residents of these colonies as till now the State and Union governments had not submitted the scheme -- along with the affidavit on providing basic amenities to these colonies -- to the Supreme Court.
Activists, professors and students came together on Monday to hold a candlelight rally at Jantar Mantar against the killing of a stray dog by a student in JNU on July 7. They were demanding that JNU should bar the student from submitting his thesis and launch an animal protection movement.
