New Delhi: Thirty seven percent of toilets in the capital's government schools are "very dirty" and in "subhuman" condition, a survey done by the NGO CRY has revealed. The study by Child Rights and You (CRY) on Thursday said 318 toilets were scrutinised in 44 schools across the city and the situation was the worst in schools in the northwest, northeast and outer districts of Delhi. Interestingly, the survey revealed...
12:00 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi government for failing to respond to a plea by 172 farmers over takeover of their land using the urgency clause of the Land Acquisition Act. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakedhar also fined the government Rs 5,000. In a hearing on March 6, the judges asked the government to explain why it acquired the...
03:12 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: A delegation of Delhi BJP on Wednesday met President Pratibha Patil and submitted a memorandum apprising her about findings of Shunglu Committee and CAG relating to alleged corruption involving Delhi government and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in Commonwealth Games projects. The delegation, led by city unit president Vijender Gupta, also submitted to the President signatures of more than 20 lakh people of the city protesting against "misrule" of...
09:03 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments for denial of a medical certificate to a non-resident Indian victim of the 2011 bomb blast outside the court complex, which was preventing him from visiting his family in Toronto, Canada. Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report published in a national daily, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and...
01:57 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday is expected to take a decision on the minimum age criteria for children seeking nursery admissions in the national capital. It currently stands at 3 years. But the Ganguly committee had in 2007 proposed that the age limit be raised to 4. According to the committee, children were emotionally, mentally and physically better equipped to start school at the age of 4....
06:28 AM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: As a controversy erupted over a demand to rename Chandni Chowk after Sachin Tendulkar, Delhi government has asked Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) not to go ahead with any such proposal saying it is not empowered to do so. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit intervened on Wednesday in the matter after reports that MCD may consider renaming the historic Chandni Chowk, built during Mughal emperor Shahjahan's reign. The city...
07:49 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi government has served a show cause notice on Swami Agnivesh for alleged fudging of bills and told him to refund an "unspent" amount of Rs 2.23 lakh out of total grant of Rs 18 lakh given to his NGO to carry out a survey on bonded labourers in the city. The Revenue department has given 10 days' time to the activist as chairman of Bonded Labour...
01:03 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: Irked over the closure of 84 temporary night shelters in the national capital against its orders, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the city government to reopen them immediately. Directing the government to restart the shelters, a division bench of acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw pulled up the Delhi government for shutting down the night shelters citing low occupancy. The judges also...
10:56 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Learning lessons from the devastating fire in a Kolkata hospital, Delhi government on Friday decided to upgrade fire safety measures in 37 hospitals run by it most of which do not have the mandatory NOC from the fire department. A top official of the Health Department said most of the government run hospitals in the city do not have the no objection certificate from the fire department. "It...
08:52 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Bowing to protests, Delhi Government on Wednesday decided to give enhanced compensation to farmers in Kanjhawala area of north-west Delhi from whom around 1,100 acres of land were acquired six years ago. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, after a cabinet meeting, said her government will give revised special rehabilitation package to the land owners of four villages in North West district. The farmers of the area have been holding...
08:08 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and the Delhi government to submit an action-taken report about banning junk food in schools across the country. An NGO, Uday foundation, had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the issue in 2010. The Delhi government had filed a reply saying that ministries and departments concerned were issued notices, but the court was unsatisfied with it. The government...
03:10 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi government on Thursday said it was ready to provide facilities like water, power and sanitation in Ramlila Maidan where Anna Hazare will launch his indefinite fast for 15 days demanding a strong Lokpal Bill. Delhi Chief Secretary PK Tripathi said the facilities will be provided if Team Anna approaches the government for them. "If they ask for the facilities, then definitely we will provide the facilities," said...
10:45 PM, Aug 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday approved the long-awaited Delhi Metro's phase III project at an estimated cost of Rs 35,242 crore. The 103.5 km phase III network will have five corridors, Mukundpur to Yamuna Vihar, Janakpur West to Kalandikunj, Central West to Kalandikunj, Central Secretariat to Kashmere Gate and Jahangirpuri to Badli. The decision was taken at a meeting of Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) chaired by Finance Minister...
09:27 PM, Aug 09, 2011
On Talking Point Rajdeep Sardesai asks if, the congress is justified in backing Sheila Dikshit. ...
11:48 PM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: Battling CAG indictment for financial irregularities and "ill-conceived" CWG projects, Delhi Government has directed concerned agencies to prepare detailed replies to all the allegations made by the auditor. The departments and agencies whose projects figure in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General for any sort of irregularities, wrongdoings and procedural lapses were told strictly to be ready with the reports at the earliest. "All the concerned...
05:34 PM, Aug 07, 2011
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