New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority has released comprehensive policy guidelines to ensure transparency, fairness and efficiency while marking parking spaces for the flats allotted under its housing schemes. According to DDA, the policy considers the specific requirements of different flat categories and the needs of persons with disabilities (PwD) as well as cases requiring special…
New Delhi: Mehak Jain’s 19th birthday was just five days away and for over a month she had been preparing for the celebration for a month, meticulously planning every detail. But her life was brutally cut short by her boyfriend, Arshkrit Singh, on Sunday. The promising BA Honours in English student aspired to become a…
New Delhi: In an initiative to involve young minds in environmental conservation, the directorate of education has launched a nearly year-long awareness campaign, Maa Yamuna Swachhta Abhiyan — A Clean Yamuna Awareness Campaign. It aims to sensitise and educate school students about the importance of cleaning the Yamuna and actively involve them in environmental conservation…
New Delhi: Highlighting ‘Vision Zero’, a global movement aiming to completely eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries, Geetam Tiwari, professor emeritus at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, IIT-Delhi, on Tuesday underlined the crucial role that speed plays in controlling road accidents.Speaking at Urban Adda, a three-day conference aiming to bring together ideas and successful…
New Delhi: To find a way to effectively dispose of municipal solid waste in Delhi’s wholesale fruit and vegetable markets, chief minister Rekha Gupta held a meeting with officials of the market boards and the department of urban development. “Coordination with relevant departments will be strengthened to further improve the sanitation systems in the markets….
New Delhi: Delhi Police ordered an inquiry into the high-profile theft that rocked the special cell, with cash and jewellery worth crores going missing from its police station in Lodhi Colony. A former cell member, Khursheed, was arrested.The inquiry by an additional CP-rank officer aims to establish negligence at different levels and will record the…
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear fresh arguments on charges in the northeast Delhi riots larger conspiracy case following transfer of judges. Additional sessions judge Lalit Kumar of Karkardooma court, in his June 2 order, stated that the counsel appearing for the accused and the prosecution must now furnish a time frame and the…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, but directed the accused to perform community service for a month at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. The man was accused of harassing and threatening a minor school-going girl.A single-judge bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula also ordered…
New Delhi: Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Tuesday issued directions to Delhi and other NCR state govts to carry out the proper identification, categorisation, demarcation and fire-risk assessment of all landfill sites and dumpsites in National Capital Region. It also asked them to adopt preventive measures, including the installation of CCTV cameras and…
New Delhi: A 24-year-old man, who assaulted a police constable during a patrol in southeast Delhi last week, was arrested after being shot at during an encounter on Monday. The accused, Asif, slashed the wrist of head constable Karan with a knife on May 27, while resisting detention in the New Friends Colony area.Police said…
