New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has approved annual maintenance and full-scale operation of borewells installed across its green spaces to save city parks from drying up during the scorching summer.Around 3,500 borewells are installed in parks under the horticulture department. Funds are being sanctioned zone-wise to the electrical department for repair and maintenance…
Lawrence Bishnoi (L), Durlabh Kashyap (R) NEW DELHI: The Lawrence Bishnoi gang has officially marked its presence in Madhya Pradesh following a shooting in Khargone’s Bheelgaon. The group claimed responsibility via social media, asserting that the target was a middleman exploiting local farmers through fraudulent documentation. However, the development has triggered an alert in Delhi’s…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has formed a three-member committee to investigate the bridge collapse in north Delhi’s Roop Nagar and submit a report within 48 hours, minister Parvesh Verma said on Tuesday.The Public Works Department minister has also ordered a safety audit of all similar foot overbridges across the city. The 60-foot FOB over the…
New Delhi: Delhi Legislative Assembly speaker Vijender Gupta has urged lieutenant governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu to install audible pedestrian signals at traffic intersections across the capital to enhance safety for visually impaired persons and elderly pedestrians. In a letter to LG, Gupta highlighted concerns about the lack of accessible pedestrian infrastructure and cited research from…
New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration has written to police seeking action against rusticated JNUSU office-bearers and other students who are out on bail in connection with earlier protests, alleging that they have violated bail conditions by participating in fresh demonstrations.Police did not comment on the development.Fourteen students, including JNUSU office-bearers, were granted…
New Delhi: Delhi University on Tuesday launched a new initiative, “Coffee with the Vice-Chancellor,” aimed at creating a direct platform for students to share concerns and interact with the university’s top leadership. The inaugural session saw a group of ten Miranda House students engage with vice-chancellor Yogesh Singh at his office, where they discussed a…
New Delhi: A Delhi court flagged discrepancies between police records and witness testimonies and acquitted two accused in a Northeast Delhi riots case. It observed that the presence of two police officials at the scene was doubtful as their movements did not align with their daily diary entries, which showed that they left the police…
New Delhi: A 60-foot iron foot overbridge built across the Najafgarh drain collapsed in north Delhi’s Roop Nagar on Tuesday, killing a woman who fell into the drain water.Following a PCR call at 9.28am, teams from police, the fire brigade, National Disaster Response Force and other agencies conducted rescue operations at the site near Block…
New Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council launched a 24×7 water supply pilot project at Vinay Marg on Tuesday for uninterrupted drinking water supply to residents.The project covers around 550 connections, most of which are at govt quarters maintained by the Central Public Works Department. As part of the initiative, NDMC plans to minimise water loss…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which has begun to roll out three-year tenders for weekly cleaning of railway tracks, will set up designated garbage collection points on railway land in coordination with Indian Railways across the city to remove large amounts of legacy waste lying along the railway corridors.A senior MCD official said…
