Drinking water sold 20 Rs for 1 litre of water in trains
Travel by any train passenger or express one is to buy 1 litre of bottled water at 20 rupees, which is 8 rupees more than the prescribed rate. All in the name of the cold or chilled water. But this is not. Vendors prefer selling local bands more than the railway...
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Azad set to emerge new star of Dalit politics in UP
Newly-elected Nagina MP and Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad is all set to emerge as a new star of Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh. The Dalit leader appears to be determined to chart his own course in politics, independent of opposition block INDIA. This is the maiden victory of...
Govt issues guidelines for implementation of UP Matrubhumi Arpan Yojana
The Yogi Adityanath government has issued guidelines for effective implementation of the Uttar Pradesh Matrubhumi Arpan Yojana in urban areas. According to these guidelines, issued by the Urban Development department, if a donor contributes 60 per cent for a development project in an urban body, the government will provide the...
Hospitals witness influx of patients with heat-related problems
Hospitals in Delhi-NCR are seeing an influx of patients with complaints of heat stroke and heat exhaustion as the mercury continues to soar in the national capital, with doctors advising the elderly and immuno-compromised patients to avoid stepping outdoors. Last month, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj had announced that the Delhi...
Ashwini Kumar appointed as MCD Commissioner
The Ministry of Home Affairs has appointed senior IAS officer Ashwini Kumar as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Commissioner. Kumar will succeed IAS officer Gyanesh Bharti, who was transferred to the ministry of women and child development as the additional secretary earlier in March this year. Kumar is an Indian Administrative...
City grapples with intense heat
The national Capital continued to grapple with intense heatwave conditions on Tuesday as temperatures soared above 46 degrees celsius. A day after Delhi felt like sizzling at 50 degrees, the heat index or the feels like temperature in the city was recorded at 48.8 degrees celsius. Northwest Delhi’s Pitampura area recorded...
Fire breaks out at garment factory, no casualties
A fire broke out at a garments factory in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar area on Tuesday morning, officials said, adding that no casualty was reported. The fire department was informed at 9.55 am and six fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze in the four-storey factory, an...
50 self-service baggage drop facilities launched at IGIA
The Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) on Tuesday launched 50 self service baggage-drop facilities at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, reducing wait time for passengers by 15 to 20 minutes. With this, the airport became the first airport in India and the second in the world after Canada’s Toronto to...
