New Delhi: Election Commission of India has again revised the schedule for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Delhi. The draft electoral roll will now be published on Aug 31, a week after the earlier schedule of Aug 24. After the third extension of the SIR schedule in the city, the final…
New Delhi: Behind the bustling facade of south Delhi, the lanes of Kalkaji recently became the quiet setting for two shattering tragedies. Within days of each other, two elderly men living alone passed away in absolute isolation. Their final hours were marked by stark solitude, and in one of the cases, the death went unnoticed…
New Delhi: A woman was held hostage at knifepoint, tied up and robbed of Rs 75 lakh at her residence in northwest Delhi’s Ashok Vihar Wednesday.According to police, a PCR call was received about the robbery from E-Block, Phase-I, at Ashok Vihar police station.Cops rushed to the spot and found that four people had allegedly…
New Delhi: Satyender Jain’s key defence in Rouse Avenue court Wednesday was that he was in jail when Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) alleges he gave his nod to “irregularities” in the tendering process of Delhi Jal Board (DJB).While ACB has claimed the former AAP minister was a party to tweaking of tender rules that allowed its…
New Delhi: With Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) not seeking police custody of Delhi’s former water minister Satyendar Jain and four other accused, a city court Wednesday sent the five to 14-day judicial custody in Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage treatment plant (STP) tender case, while granting two-day police custody of DJB ex-consultant Ankit Srivastava.The defence…
New Delhi: Only electric N1 light goods vehicles (LGVs) will be allowed to be registered in Delhi from Jan 1, 2027, and from July 1, 2027, in the high-vehicle-density districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonipat, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar, Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said Wednesday. N1 refers to a motor vehicle used for…
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…
