
New Delhi: The Delhi government is likely to announce a number of steps next week to provide relief to lakhs of residents residing in over 1,200 unauthorised colonies which were given provisional regularisation certificates in 2008. A meeting of the Delhi Cabinet, presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, today discussed the recommendations made by a group of ministers (GoM), which was set up last year to provide relief and...

08:59 PM, May 05, 2012

Dahod: Using to the hilt his Delhi counterpart Sheila Dikshit's and state Congress' praise of his government's track record on development, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the state is considered as a roll-model for development and Congress has accepted it. Modi also slammed the union government alleging "the UPA government at the Centre has "damaged the image of the nation in the world with a series of...

01:16 AM, Feb 05, 2012

New Delhi: After facing embarrassment over some party leaders' praise of Narendra Modi, Congress on Wednesday targeted the chief minister, likening his rule with that of the Nazis. "The Nazis also built autobahns (German expressways) but what defined the Nazi regime wasn't those autobahns. It was Auschwitz (concentration camp). It was Treblinka (externation camp). It was ghettos (where jews were forced to live)," party spokesperson Manish Tewari said. Tewari, however,...

06:41 PM, Feb 01, 2012

New Delhi: Two-year-old Baby Falak, who was admitted to AIIMS with severe injuries and is battling for life, continues to be in critical condition. Doctors at AIIMS said that the toddler is suffering from meningitis. "Falak is suffering from meningitis. Future course of treatment depends on how the baby responds to the treatment. Her chances of survival have severely gone down," Sumit Sinha, Neurosurgeon, AIIMS said. He said that infection...

03:40 PM, Jan 31, 2012

New Delhi: In the national capital, two-year-old Falak, who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. As doctors perform surgery after surgery on the two-year-old, there are still no concrete leads to who the child's biological parents are. The 2-year-old was on ventilator from Sunday night due to lung infection. With a CT scan showing...

09:14 PM, Jan 30, 2012

New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak, who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. Doctors, who operated on her for the second time on Monday, said that her condition has deteriorated after some fluids entered her brain. The operation was performed to clear the fluids. Meanwhile, crucial leads have surfaced in the case. Sources say that Delhi...

01:16 PM, Jan 30, 2012

New Delhi: At a time when the Supreme Court has asked the state governments to provide shelter to the homeless, a group of visually challenged students in Delhi have been forced to live out in the open, after their shelter in the Virender Nagar area near Janakpuri in west Delhi was sealed without notice by the authorities. Till 2010, the nearly 30 visually-challenged students of the Louis Welfare Blind Association...

04:35 PM, Jan 28, 2012

New Delhi: The police on Friday started investigating the alleged role of a man involved in the baby brutality case. Police teams have been sent to Mumbai to trace and nab Rajkumar, the man who is believed to have handed over the two-year-old Falak to a teenaged girl, in Delhi. Falak was brought in a battered condition to the AIIMS on January 18 by a 15-year-old girl who claimed to...

08:16 AM, Jan 28, 2012

New Delhi: New Delhi is celebrating 100 years as the capital, and it seemed like the kind of birthday no one wanted to miss. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launched the latest book on the capital 'Red Fort to Raisina', the launch itself was like a who's who for the city's movers and shakers. ...

09:37 AM, Dec 13, 2011

New Delhi: Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states have toed the Centre's line on the Lokpal bill opposing bringing the Prime Minister under its ambit while those from states where BJP is in power have sought wider deliberations before a final view is taken. Several Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states have expressed surprise over why they are being consulted now when final draft is not ready and demanded that their opinion...

08:34 PM, Jun 15, 2011

New Delhi: New Zealand's controversial television anchor Paul Henry resigned on Sunday amid an uproar over racial comments. He had mocked Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit's name and made racial slurs against Indians. Earlier, New Zealand apologised to India’s External Affairs ministry over comments made by Paul Henry about the Chief Minister of Delhi. But the anchor Paul Henry was unfazed by India’s outrage and his own government's apology. The...

12:46 PM, Oct 10, 2010

New Delhi: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday morning met officials from the CWG Organising Committee, the Delhi Development Authority and the Municipal Corporation and said, “Work is on track and I assure that all the cleanliness work will be done. All the flats will be handed over by Wednesday.” Completion of work in Tower 22 is the most crucial as the South African contingent will arrive on Sunday evening...

10:29 AM, Sep 26, 2010

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09:26 AM, Sep 26, 2010

New Delhi: The countdown for the much-awaited Commonwealth Games has now begun. And with just eight days to go, Delhi seems to be beating negativism, and gets ready to put its best foot forward for the Games. While the government still needs to do a lot of fire fighting over the games, positive sentiments have started pouring into the capital city just ahead of the mega sporting event. Despite a...

07:44 AM, Sep 26, 2010

New Delhi: Whatever can go wrong is going wrong with the Commonwealth Games. After Tuesday’s footbridge collapse, there was more embarrassment for the Organising Committee (OC) in store on Wednesday as a portion of the false ceiling collapsed in the weightlifting arena at the Jawahar Lal Stadium. CNN-IBN visited three of the project sites where work is still going on with people racing against time to meet deadlines. If Tuesday...

10:00 PM, Sep 22, 2010