Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday slammed BJP for the soaring prices of onions in the city and directly blamed the central government for the crisis.
Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) has called for an indefinite strike from December 4 against the varsity’s decision to appoint guest faculties for full-time posts. The decision will adversely affect 4,500 ad hoc teachers , it claims. DUTA members will boycott evaluation, invigilation duties and other official works.
The temporary U-turns on GD Birla Marg connecting the Sarita Vihar underpass with Kalindi Kunj, created by breaking down the central verge and putting up plastic barriers, has created a lot of problems for commuters. For one, danger lurks on the stretch near Shaheen Bagh where the average speed is 60kmph. And then these turns are not visible to drivers after dark.
In a horrific incident, a 55-year-old woman was raped and murdered inside her house-cum-shop by a man who u
The air quality on Saturday deteriorated and the AQI reading touched 193 in the ‘moderate’ category after a ‘satisfactory’ 84 on Friday.
The capital witnessed its first spell of ‘dense’ fog for this season on Saturday. The visibility, which was zero for nearly two hours at Palam in the morning, led to disruption in flight activity at IGI.
Delhi high court on Friday gave a slew of directions to make the city safer for women and children, and suggested that women cops in plainclothes be deputed at vulnerable locations.
Delhi’s air quality continues to improve. On Friday, it entered the satisfactory levels with the air quality index (AQI) touching 84. The previous best air quality for the city was on September 30 when the AQI was 68. The air quality is expected to remain clean on the weekend as well. On Thursday, the city’s AQI was in the moderate level (106).
Shakuntala quickly runs towards Tajpur Pahari when she sees a truck arriving with fresh ash. She lives a few hundred metres away from the spot where tonnes of ash generated by the Okhla waste-to-energy plant is sent — and callously dumped in the open. The place where the ash, the remnants of the incineration of garbage, has been dumped and tamped down over time looks like any other ground. But a closer look at the children playing cricket there reveals the darker under layer is not soil at all, but packed ash.
A two-year-old girl who was kidnapped from Palam Village last Saturday was reunited with her family on Friday. Two men who had hatched the plan to kidnap the child have been arrested.
Tipplers may soon get to enjoy foreign and Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) 25% cheaper than the prevailing market rates. But the catch is that the liquor on sale at the discounted price would be those seized by the excise department during various raids.
The weapon and the car allegedly used by the husband of a 20-year-old woman to kill her on November 11 have been recovered by police.
Come Monday and parking your vehicles in Lajpat Nagar market will no more be a troublesome task. Also, while returning from the market, you won’t have to haggle over fares with auto drivers. To decongest the market and streamline traffic movement in the area, local traders’ association has developed a visitor-friendly parking app and set up a prepaid booth.
Light rain in parts of the capital on Thursday morning further improved the city’s air quality for the second consecutive day. The daily air quality index clocked 106, putting Delhi air in moderate category, the cleanest since October 5 (98). The AQI further improved to 77 in satisfactory zone at 8.40pm, according to the Central Pollution Control Board’s website.
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a Bill to grant ownership rights to residents of over 1,700 unauthorised colonies in Delhi with Union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri saying the government would deal with the issue of the capital’s 65 affluent unauthorised clusters later.
After a revamped facade at the Paharganj entrance and new waiting and cloak rooms for passengers, the New Delhi railway station is set to get a mega 100-foot-wide footover bridge (FOB) by next year aimed at handling a majority of the 2 station’s 3-5 lakh daily passenger load.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday flagged off the fourth lot of 100 standard-floor buses taking the fleet strength of the cluster scheme buses to over 2,000.
