New Delhi: After Bhagini Nivedita College and Aditi Mahavidyalaya, three more off-campus Delhi University colleges — Shyam Lal College, Rajdhani College and Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening) — have opened merit-based admissions using Class XII scores to fill vacant undergraduate seats. The move comes as colleges continue to struggle to fill seats left vacant by…
New Delhi: The proposal for the augmentation and upgrade of Delhi’s sewage treatment plants was proposed on Oct 7, 2021, and it got an in-principle approval from the then water minister, Satyendar Jain, a week later, govt sources said.The processing of the project began in Aug 2021. Meetings were held later that year to discuss…
New Delhi: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday alleged that the arrest of Satyendar Jain was carried out “under political pressure”.However, chief minister Rekha Gupta said Jain was involved in a “scam” in Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and that investigating agencies were doing their job.Delhi BJP president Harsh Malhotra said AAP functionaries were playing the political…
New Delhi: Union minister for civil aviation Ram Mohan Naidu Wednesday flagged off the scaled-up phase of India’s transshipment cargo reform at Delhi International Airport Limited’s (DIAL) Transshipment Excellence Centre, IGI Airport, Terminal 2.“Based on industry feedback, we identified the long-standing requirement of mandatory re-screening of transshipment cargo as a key bottleneck. By doing away…
The protest comes days after Manan Kumar Mishra apologised to law students over a controversial BCI order concerning graduating students of NALSAR. NEW DELHI: A protest has been called against Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra over the controversy surrounding the council’s now-withdrawn directive linked to students of NALSAR University of Law,…
New Delhi: Delhi Police have apprehended more than 12 people in connection with a pan-India racket allegedly involved in the illegal trade of cancer medicines, including genuine drugs sourced through unauthorised channels and counterfeit medicines.Police sources said the racket involved medicines allegedly stolen from govt and private hospitals and subsequently diverted to the illegal market….
The agency laid a trap on Tuesday and allegedly caught Sandeep accepting the Rs 10 lakh bribe through his wife. (AI-generated Image) NEW DELHI: The CBI has arrested a deputy controller of accounts posted as an internal financial advisor (IFA) in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for allegedly accepting an Rs 10 lakh bribe through…
Critically injured workers bled for extended periods before receiving assistance NEW DELHI: For the families of workers caught in Wednesday’s CNG station blast in Delhi, the tragedy did not end with the explosion, with relatives alleging that injured workers struggled to get timely medical help.One family said a critically injured worker remained at the site…
A still from the play Laddu The band players are tired, complaining how little their lives matter to the people they work for. They barely make money, stay away long hours from the family and are poorly fed except through stories of the weddings they witness. Then comes the band leader Laddu, who, on his…
Indian food safety officials are taking a strong stance on health and hygiene, extending their oversight across major cities (Representative image) New Delhi: For long, food safety enforcement in India was synonymous with dirty roadside stalls and small eateries operating without licenses. That picture has changed dramatically over the past few months as food safety…
