New Delhi: Public Works Department (PWD) has inspected 140 chronic waterlogging spots across the city to assess the ground situation and identify immediate measures to tackle the problem during the remaining monsoon.The inspections, undertaken in coordination with Delhi Police, followed lieutenant governor TS Sandhu’s direction during a meeting on Aug 25 to review the waterlogging…
New Delhi: For years, Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) politics has largely been a contest between two parties. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) have dominated the electoral space.Left-backed All India Students’ Association (AISA) and Students’ Federation of India (SFI),…
New Delhi: Delhi has drawn up a seven-month Information, Education and Communication (IEC) plan to raise public awareness about pollution. The plan includes workshops for vehicle owners, commercial operators, students and citizens on the harmful effects of end-of-life vehicles, reducing idling, lane discipline, parking and timely vehicle servicing. It will also include seminars for road-owning…
New Delhi: The Delhi–Ghaziabad–Meerut Namo Bharat corridor recorded its highest-ever daily ridership of around 1.7 lakh passengers Friday, surpassing the previous day’s record of 1.6 lakh passengers.“The corridor recorded its highest-ever daily ridership Friday on the day of Raksha Bandhan. Namo Bharat trains have maintained consistent performance even during peak demand, extreme heat, monsoon conditions…
New Delhi: Nearly 47.6 lakh registered voters in Delhi are unlikely to find their names in the draft Special Intensive Revision (SIR) electoral roll to be published by Election Commission Monday, with around one-third of the capital’s 1.4 crore electors unable to submit their enumeration forms during the verification exercise.Election officials said many voters were…
New Delhi: Days after a 28-year-old man was allegedly electrocuted after coming in contact with a pole in east Delhi’s Anand Vihar, police Saturday said they had registered a case of negligence. Section 289 of the BNS, which deals with negligent conduct with respect to machinery, has been invoked. Investigators will approach the agencies concerned…
New Delhi: A few months after multiple fire tragedies left dozens dead in the city, Delhi govt has tightened fire-safety checks by amending the related rules, which seek to end duplication of work between the fire department and the building plan sanctioning authorities.Govt has segregated structural and non-structural parameters for granting fire safety certificates (FSCs),…
New Delhi: Delhi’s hospital corridors are speaking in new accents. For decades, nurses from Kerala formed the backbone of the capital’s private healthcare system, valued for their training, discipline and clinical expertise. But hospitals are now witnessing a steady demographic shift, with recruitment expanding rapidly to the Northeast and parts of north India. Nursing administrators…
New Delhi: Two men have been arrested for allegedly robbing a 52-year-old man of Rs 44 lakh in northeast Delhi, police said.The complainant, Jitendra Kumar, told police that he had collected the cash from Avdhesh Tiwari, a scrap dealer, at MS Park in Shahdara and was carrying it on his motorcycle to deliver it to…
New Delhi: The rakhis may have come off, but Delhi Traffic Police hopes the road-safety message they carried will stay. On Raksha Bandhan, traffic personnel used flowers, rakhis and counselling to reinforce the importance of following traffic rules and staying safe on the road.Under the campaign, “Rakhi Ka Waada, Suraksha Ka Iraada”, the traffic police…
