New Delhi: “It’s taazi sabzi without chemicals. The taste is different, fresher, and takes less time to cook, uses less water to clean,” gushed Afroze Jamal in Nizamuddin Basti. “We used to buy everything from the market, but now nearly 20 houses on our lane grow their own.” In Nizamuddin and in other crowded urban…
New Delhi: The Judicial Services Association of Delhi has moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings against Delhi chief secretary and finance secretary for not implementing the SC-approved second national judicial pay commission’s (SNJP) recommendation for giving trial judges soft loans with nominal interest to buy cars.Interestingly, Delhi…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has stayed National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) decision to hire lawyers on the basis of CLAT scores, saying there seemed “no rationale” behind the process.HC stayed the move while reserving its order on a petition challenging a NHAI notification making exam scores of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) PG,…
New Delhi: The principal of Delhi University’s Ramanujan College has reportedly been suspended over a complaint of alleged harassment and hostility. He, however, has termed the complaint “false and fabricated”. In letters to the Prime Minister’s Office grievance cell and the vice-chancellor, principal Rasal Singh denied the allegations, calling these “an attempt to convert an…
New Delhi: Three men, including a state-level school football player and his cousin, were allegedly stabbed during a robbery in Kalka Garhi village, southeast Delhi, on Saturday. The injured cousins along with locals nabbed two of the accused involved in the attack. Police said the incident occurred around 10.15pm near a local temple. Deputy commissioner…
New Delhi: Driving straight in the city is an aberration. You cannot stick to a straight path because no one else does. It’s a mix of ignorance about traffic rules, reluctance to give way due to ego and a general sense of recklessness.So, lane driving is a casualty. Lane indiscipline fuels congestion, near misses and…
New Delhi: The monsoon may withdraw from Delhi this week. Rain is unlikely during the coming week.“Conditions are becoming favourable for further withdrawal of the southwest monsoon from some more parts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours,” said the India Meteorological Department in its bulletin…
New Delhi: After thousands of fish died in Yamuna in Burari last year, National Green Tribunal (NGT) observed that authorities in Delhi and Haryana were shifting responsibility onto each other. The tribunal directed Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to fix responsibility and prepare a plan to prevent the recurrence of such incidents. Delhi Pollution Control…
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor VK Saxena has written to Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW), asking its faculty and research scholars to explore new technological areas in national interest, particularly cloud seeding and drone technology. In his letter to vice-chancellor Prof Ranjana Jha, Saxena noted that IGDTUW has emerged as a centre of…
New Delhi: A man who, along with his associates, used to dupe people through fake credit card activation was arrested, police said on Sunday.Police received a complaint in which the complainant reported receiving a phone call from an individual posing as a bank official. The caller claimed that a credit card was issued in the…
