- Delhi's master plan signed, Reddy says no sealing tomorrow
The Centre has approved Delhi's new master plan which will be notified in a couple of days . . . . . - DJP plans to reduce Yamuna pollution by 80 pc by 2010
If everything goes as per the Delhi Jal Board's plan, pollution at Yamuna river is expected to be reduced by 80 per cent by 2010 . . . . - Traders stage dharna at DDA meeting venue
Shopkeepers today staged a dharna here demanding regularisation of their shops as the Delhi Development Authority Board met to finalise the Master Plan for Delhi 2021. - Run up to budget: Ahluwalia meets FM over CSS
Ahead of the Budget 2007-08, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today met Finance Minister P Chidambaram on the issue of restructuring of centrally-sponsored schemes . . . . - India, UAE to ink MoU to protect interests of Indians
India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will sign an MoU in the field of labour on Wednesday, a step aimed at protecting the interests of lakhs of Indians working there. - High Court awards life sentence to five for kidnapping boy for ransom
The Delhi High Court today upheld the life sentence of five persons but acquitted two others for kidnapping a Delhi boy for a ransom of Rs five crore nine years ago. - CFLs light up PMO, 25 central govt buildings in Delhi
In tandem with Delhi government's initiatve to promote energy conservation in the national capital, the Centre has started to light up 25 key buildings, including Rashtrapati Bhawan, PMO and Rail Bhawan, with energy efficient Compact Flouroscent Lamps. - Traders' protest continues in Delhi
Hundreds of traders took out rallies across the Indian capital as their protests entered the fourth successive day Saturday against the sealing of commercial establishments in residential areas. - Centre readying contingency plan on Delhi sealing issue
The urban development ministry is working on a contingency plan that includes exploring the option of a constitution amendment to help commercial establishments in residential areas facing closure in the national capital. - Koda leaves for Delhi, to call on UPA leaders
New Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda today left for New Delhi, where he will call on senior UPA leaders who could not be present during his swearing-in ceremony earlier this week. - Seelampur victims died of bullet injuries
Post mortem of three persons, including two teenagers, who died in bandh violence in Seelampur area of North-East Delhi, today confirmed that they succumbed to bullet injuries. - Kalam approves Delhi govt bill on office of profit
In a major relief for 18 Congress MLAs in Delhi against whom complaints were pending with the Election Commission on the office of profit issue, President A P J Abdul Kalam is learnt to have given assent to a bill seeking to exempt several posts under the NCT government from the purview of office of profit. - Sonia Vihar Water Plant dedicated to Delhiites
The much-awaited Rs 880 crore 140 MGD Sonia Vihar Water Treatment Plant, expected to meet water demand of half of national capital's population, was today dedicated to Delhiites by Congress President Sonia Gandhi. - 'Delhi government can notify roads for commercial use'
The central government Thursday issued a directive empowering the Delhi government to notify roads for commercial use even as 204 more roads were finalised for the purpose. - Mattoo murder accused finds faults with CBI
Counsel for Santosh Kumar Singh, accused in the Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case, Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had failed to match the fingerprints of his client with chance fingerprints lifted from the spot. - Feasting, music mark Onam celebrations in Delhi
Over a million Malayalis in the national capital brought Kerala alive in their homes and hearts as they celebrated the festival of Onam Tuesday. - Delhi’s ‘Grand Panchayat’ of 360 villages to oppose identification of dumping ground
A meeting of grand panchayat body of 360 village panchayats in Delhi is scheduled to take place tomorrow in village Ghumman Hera, near Najafgarh, to protest against the Delhi Government’s decision of locating land near the village to dump the city’s solid waste. - Delhi trader dies after MCD seals shop
A day after civic officials sealed his shop in southwest Delhi, a trader died of heart attack Saturday even as the demolition drive continued for the second day, his family members said. - Evening showers snarl up Delhi traffic
Heavy showers Saturday evening led to heavy traffic snarls in several parts of Delhi even as Met officials said the intermittent rains would continue till Sunday evening. - Delhi to launch school football league Wednesday
Vision India's 'Project Delhi', a brainchild of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), will launch an under-13 league for local schools starting Wednesday. - Sealing and demolition drive again resumed in Delhi
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from resumed its demolition and sealing drive on Friday in the national Capital as per the orders of the Supreme Court. - Early morning showers bring respite to humid Delhi
Light showers and drizzle were experienced in the national capital this morning, bringing the mercury down by a degree and providing respite to people from the humid weather. The Easterly winds too brought in coolness in the atmosphere. The minimum temperature dropped to 24.5 degrees Celsius, from 25.2 degree since yesterday. - Sculptor Sankho Chaudhari dies
Noted sculptor and former Lalit Kala Akademi Chairman Sankho Chaudhari breathed his last here today. - Delhi cops seize 4,400 kg of drugs worth Rs.2 bn
Delhi Police has seized 4,400 kg of drugs worth Rs.2 billion ($42 million) - the biggest seizure in recent times - from a south Delhi colony. - Delhi medicos suspend stir, protests continue elsewhere
Doctors and medical students in the national capital today suspended their anti-quota stir after the reservation bill was referred to a Parliamentary panel but students in other parts of the country continued their protests, affecting services at state-run hospitals. - Latest facilities to be launched at Delhi Cancer Institute
State-of-the-art facilities for treatment of cancer, including the latest radiotherapy technology, will be launched at the Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI) here tomorrow. - Dutch envoy summoned, India conveys unhappiness
Taking "strong notice" of the arrest and detention of 12 Indians from a flight in Amsterdam, the government today summoned the Dutch Ambassador here today and conveyed its unhappiness over the incident. - Dikshit asks Centre for more administrative powers for Delhi
With Delhi not enjoying full statehood and multiplicity of authorities blamed for creating hurdles in developmental work, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has written to the Centre asking for devolution of more administrative powers. - Haircut issue echoes in Lok Sabha
The issue of forced haircut of a Sikh boy in Jaipur today rocked Lok Sabha leading to its adjournment for 10 minutes. - Disaster management centre in Delhi soon
In an effort to prevent and prepare for natural disasters in South Asia, the SAARC Disaster Management Centre would be operational in the Indian capital in October. - More Indian evacuees arrive in Delhi from Lebanon
Thirty-five more Indians evacuated from the war-stricken Lebanon, arrived here on Monday. - Delhi zoo needs better hygiene
After the death of six endangered Asiatic lions at Delhi zoo, the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) Monday said the hygiene level at the institution should be enhanced to check such incidents. - PM hails Bismillah Khan as one of the greatest musicians
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today hailed Ustad Bismillah Khan as one of the greatest musicians of the country and "a phenomenal exponent" of India's composite culture whose ideals would continue to inspire the coming generations. - New Delhi wakes up only to booming guns in northeast!
The road to peace in Assam has come one step closer, although the oft-repeated statement that New Delhi wakes up only when the guns boom in the northeast has once again proved right. - Delhi government extends deadline yet again
Second week of July, early August and now next week... the Delhi government has been continuously extending the deadline for solving the severe power crisis in the capital even as residents continue to reel under long hours of power cuts. - Delhi gets power from Himachal Pradesh
Delhi Transco, the electricity procuring body of the capital Thursday said that they have started receiving power from the Naphtha Jhakri power plant in Himachal Pradesh, even as the residents sweat out another day of long power cuts. - V.P. Singh, Raj Babbar arrested near Delhi
Former prime minister V.P. Singh and actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar were among 97 people who were arrested Thursday when they were on their way to participate in a rally at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to protest land acquisition for a proposed Reliance project. - Delhi college to honour ex-student Suu Kyi
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, currently under house arrest in that country, will be honoured by her alma mater New Delhi's Lady Sri Ram College for Women (LSR) but a rights activist said the icon is unlikely to come. - 4.45 lakh passengers use Delhi metro every day
As many as 4.55 lakh passengers on an average are travelling in Delhi metro trains daily, Rajya Sabha was informed today. - Suu Kyi to be honoured by Delhi college alma mater
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, currently under house arrest in that country, will be honoured by her alma mater Lady Sri Ram College for Women (LSR) here Monday as part of its ongoing golden jubilee celebrations. - Security cover for temples on Janmashtami
After unprecedented safety precautions at vital places for Independence Day celebrations Tuesday, it is now the turn of temples to be placed under tight security cover Wednesday for Janmashtami, birth anniversary of Hindu Lord Krishna. - Kites fill Delhi sky with colours
The capital's sky was dotted with colourful kites on Independence Day Tuesday, as children and adults alike took to the sport in large numbers. - Visual Independence Day treat through state-of-the art communications
Five commentators, nine cameramen, several vision mixers, engineers and producers were deployed for beaming the most cherished occasion for the Indians, the 60th Independence Day celebrations at Red Fort here on Tuesday morning. - Dikshit vows to solve power, water woes
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday unfurled the national flag at the state's Independence Day celebrations here and vowed to solve the capital's continuing problems of water, power and deteriorating road conditions. - Promote Knowledge Economy in India also', says Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said during the course of his third Independence Day speech, that India play a significant and participative role in developing the "Knowledge Economy" in the new millenium. - Kirti Chakra for Major James Thomas and fireman Vijay Pal Singh
In recognition to their exceptional valour, devotion to duty and supreme sacrifice, President APJ Abdul Kalam has approved the award of Kirti Chakra posthumously to Major James Thomas of 10 Sikh Light Infantry and Fireman Vijay Pal Singh of Uttar Pradesh. - Gavit ready to face any probe
Minister of State for Home Manikrao Gavit, accused of links with mafia, today expressed readiness to face any probe and said he would quit public life even if an iota of truth was found in the allegation that he talked to a don from UP for transferring a jail official. - Two LeT men held in Delhi ahead of Independence Day
Delhi Police said on Friday that it has arrested two militants belonging to the Pakistan-based banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. - Man moving in suspicious circumstances in South Delhi detained
A man moving in suspicious circumstances in a high security area in South Delhi was today detained by security personnel. - Delhi-Ghaziabad border under vigilance
Delhi- Uttar Pradesh borders have been put under strict vigilance and security beefed up in the district ahead of Independence Day, a senior official said today. - Security not compromised on delivery of diplomatic bags
The Government today told Rajya Sabha that its decision to outsource delivery of diplomatic bags did not involve any security risk as the private firm was only given the task of ferrying to and from airport sealed bags. - 'No shortfall of CNG, domestic gas in Delhi'
There will be no shortfall of compressed natural gas (CNG) or piped natural gas for domestic consumers in the capital following the shutdown of ONGC's gas processing plant at Hazira in flood-hit Gujarat, top officials said Wednesday. - India lacks participatory democracy: Arvind Kejriwal
Right to information crusader Arvind Kejriwal, the winner of the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for "empowering New Delhi's poorest citizens to fight corruption", believes that graft is just a symptom of India's larger problem - the lack of participatory democracy. - Natwar's privilege notice is without precedent
Former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh's notice of a motion for a breach of his privilege as an MP against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is unprecedented in the country's parliamentary annals. - Committee for affiliation of Indian schools and international ones
Government has constituted a Committee to recommend a policy regarding affiliation of Indian schools and international ones located in the country to foreign boards, Rajya Sabha was informed today. - Six members of family get life terms for killing wrestler
Six members of a family have been sentenced to life in jail by a Delhi court for killing a young wrestler for having an affair with one of their women kin in north-west Delhi. - Letter-- a crucial piece of evidence
In deciding to indict K Natwar Singh, Justice R S Pathak held as "one of the most crucial pieces of evidence" a letter written by the senior Congress leader on January 30, 2001 to Iraqi Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rasheed asking him to give "full assistance and cooperation" to Andaleeb Sehgal, a Delhi-based businessman. - Deepak Bhojwani interrogated by the SIT of Delhi Police
South Africa-based businessman Deepak Bhojwani, a key witness in the model Jessica Lall murder case was today interrogated by the Special Investigation Team of Delhi Police. - Two dead in Delhi car fire
Two people were killed and one was injured in south Delhi Monday night when the car in which they were travelling caught fire, police said. - Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on wheat import
The Supreme Court on Friday sought a reply within three weeks from the Centre on a PIL seeking cancellation of the decision to import 57 lakh tonnes wheat, alleged to be.... - Sheila Dixit to inaugurate 'Days of Delhi' festival in Moscow
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit will reach Moscow to paticipate in a four-day cultural festival 'Days of Delhi'beginning from today. - Faculty members on leave; JNU,IIT students begin hunger strike
After rejecting the Government proposal, medicos today stepped up their anti-reservation stir with faculty members of three premier hospitals going on mass casual leave and the medical fraternity gearing up for a total shutdown on Wednesday. - Angry patient kills Delhi doctor
A 28-year-old doctor was killed Sunday after an aggrieved patient pumped 13 bullets into his body outside a hospital in the crowded Gole market area here, police said. - Delhi's water woes to ease next week
A 140-million-gallons-per-day (mgd) capacity water treatment plant here will start supplying water to parts of south and east Delhi from early next week, alleviating to a considerable extent the water woes of the two regions in the Indian capital. - Two killed in encounter with police in North Delhi
Two gangsters, accused in at least half a dozen cases of murder and dacoity in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, were killed in an encounter with police in North Delhi today. - Seven member of a family murdered in Delhi
In a gruesome incident, seven members of a family were found dead in north Delhi early Monday. Initial investigations indicated it was a case of murder and the matter was handed over to the Crime Branch of Delhi Police. - Sugar export ban: Centre to review situation in Oct
The Centre will in October review the policy of banning export of sugar and allowing imports in consultations with state governments, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar informed Lok Sabha today.
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