New Delhi: With Congress chief Sonia Gandhi intervening over splitting of MCD, an issue on which the party and the Delhi Government were at loggerheads, a decision was on Monday taken to divide the civic body into three parts. A Delhi Cabinet meeting, presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, on Monday tweaked its earlier "in principle" decision of splitting the MCD into five parts and decided to keep the...
07:09 PM, May 30, 2011
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After covering Science and Technology for five years, I recently moved to CNN-IBN's show Citizen Journalist. It is a show about citizens actively taking up ...
12:33 PM, May 30, 2011
Fond Du Lac: A retired prison guard ate his 25,000th Big Mac on Tuesday, 39 years to the day after eating his first... nine. Don Gorske was honored after reaching the meaty milestone during a ceremony at a McDonald's in his hometown of Fond du Lac. Surely McDonald's most loyal customer, Guinness World Records recognized Gorske's feat three years and 2,000 Big Macs ago, and the 57-year-old says he has...
12:18 PM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked Delhi International Airport (DIAL) to pay Rs 15 crore to Municipal Corporation of Delhi as an interim measure against the Rs 70 crore demand in property tax from the airport operator. A bench comprising Justice DK Jain and Justice HL Dattu dismissed DIAL's petition, challenging a high court order that asked the airport operator to pay Rs 15 crore as an interim measure....
10:29 AM, May 15, 2011
Citizens exposes menace of corruption, negligence of MCD and lack of clean drinking water. ...
02:33 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Citizen Journalist Varun Jain's family had to wait for over five hours for his grandfather's funeral at Delhi's Nigam Bodh ghat crematorium. ...
09:37 AM, Apr 24, 2011
New York: A miserly duck, a vampire and pair of precocious kids are among the richest fictional characters, according to a ranking by Forbes. Scrooge McDuck, the "penny-pinching poultry" with a fortune in gold coins whose estimated worth is $ 44.1 billion, headed the list of Forbes' "Fictional 15" wealthiest imaginary characters. But despite his riches, McDuck still trails Microsoft founder Bill Gates' $53 billion. Vampire-themed franchises have become big...
12:44 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Houston: Subway has surpassed McDonalds to become the largest restaurant chain on the planet and is now spread out more globally than McDonald's. The sandwich chain surpassed the world's largest hamburger chain in terms of number of stores in the US in 2002 and now it has taken the global lead. According to information released by the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, Subway has a total of 33,749 restaurants...
02:11 PM, Mar 10, 2011
Citizen Journalist Shefali Sewak took on the ITC Sheraton for converting the MCD parking area for personal use. ...
09:33 AM, Mar 06, 2011
Just three months after Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi witnesses absence of proper maintenance. ...
08:55 AM, Feb 02, 2011
Name: Vikram Bakshi Designation: CEO, McDonalds India (North and East) The Challenge: To create the infrastructure to make the perfect McDonalds French fries in India How He Did It: For nine years researched potato growing in India. Set up a processing plant in 2007 What Next? Source fish from India In October 1996 we opened our first store at Vasant Vihar in New Delhi. There were long lines outside and...
10:28 AM, Jan 06, 2011
New Delhi: After the Delhi Traffic Police page on Facebook became a hit, the MCD is also planning to set up a similar page on the popular social networking website. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is all set to start operating on Facebook from January, giving a special focus on monitoring garbage removal in the national capital. "The page will be aimed at monitoring cleanliness and garbage removal in the...
04:31 PM, Dec 15, 2010
New Delhi: Beat it home after dark in Delhi. Nearly 70 per cent of the capital's three lakh street lights, maintained by the civic corporation, do not work -- a factor people blame for the rising number of crimes after dusk in Delhi. Three private companies (discoms) - North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited - maintain the street lights in the...
05:36 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Los Angeles: McDonald's Corp said on Monday hackers gained access to a database containing information such as the email addresses and birth dates of people who voluntarily signed up for its websites and promotions. The world's biggest hamburger chain said the security breach did not include any Social Security numbers, credit card accounts or sensitive financial information. The hacked data was on computer systems operated by an email database management...
11:03 AM, Dec 14, 2010
New Delhi: Three days after Delhi's worst building collapse tragedy, the search is on to nail the guilty. But the fact remains that there are several Laxmi Nagars waiting to happen because, there is a vicious nexus between government authorities and officials who allow unauthorised structures to come up. On Monday evening, a five-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in East Delhi's Laxmi Nagar, killing 67 people. The...
11:16 PM, Nov 17, 2010
The blame game has begun. Agencies like the MCD who are accountable for unauthorised construction are simply promising action against unknown erring officials. ...
08:00 AM, Nov 17, 2010
New Delhi: The toll in the East Delhi building collapse mounted to 67 even as rescue workers continue to search for any trapped survivors on Wednesday. A senior fire brigade official said the debris clearance operation at the collapsed spot in the East Delhi's Lalita Park is on and it may take some more hours to clear it. The 15-year-old five-storey building, which housed 200 people, caved in at around...
07:20 AM, Nov 17, 2010
At least 67 people have been killed and 130 other injured after five-storey residential building in East Delhi's Laxmi Nagar collapsed on Monday night. The majority of those killed and injured are migrant daily wage labourers from Bihar and West Bengal. Rescue operations are still on but chances of finding survivors are receding now. The MCD has ordered an investigation into the collapse even as it faces allegations that it...
10:39 PM, Nov 16, 2010
At least 67 people have been killed and 130 other injured after five-storey residential building in East Delhi's Laxmi Nagar collapsed on Monday night. The majority of those killed and injured are migrant daily wage labourers from Bihar and West Bengal. Rescue operations are still on but chances of finding survivors are receding now. The MCD has ordered an investigation into the collapse even as it faces allegations that it ...
10:39 PM, Nov 16, 2010
