New Delhi: Eco-friendly chemicals, hi-tech machines and bio-degradable garbage disposal bags will ensure cleanliness of Metro stations. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has decided to re-work its cleaning and housekeeping practices by using advanced and hi-tech machineries and is conducting specialised training programme for its staff to ensure the entire system is clean and hygienic round-the-clock.
All the team leaders and supervisors of the cleaning teams deputed at stations, maintenance depots are now being trained and certified by the British Institute of Cleaning Sciences in Gurgaon for this purpose. An orientation programme and workshop will also be held for all station managers, train maintenance depot in-charges and officials from Operations Department to understand the working of these new equipment and techniques.
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02:30 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: India plans to double its renewable energy capacity to 55,000 MW by 2017 as part of efforts to increase efficiency of its energy use, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Wednesday. "It is proposed to double the renewable energy capacity in our country from 25000 MW in 2012 to 55000 MW by the year 2017," he said inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial conference here. He said...
03:40 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Friday said the Supreme Court is taking "very seriously" the issue of cleaning Yamuna river. "This is something which courts, in particular the Supreme Court is taking very very seriously and, particularly the river Yamuna, we are taking it very seriously," the CJI said. Justice Kabir was addressing the students at Jamia Milia Islamia University at the inaugural function of 4th...
02:28 AM, Apr 13, 2013
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11:58 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: In yet another setback for Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, a Delhi court ordered the CBI to re-investigate the role of the three-time MP in the killings of Sikhs near a gurudwara on November 1, 1984, rejecting the closure report filed by the investigative agency. Lawyer HS Phoolka said, "On November 6, 1984 Jagdish Tytler went to the Police Commissioner's office and asked him to release his men. This...
10:30 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday expressed concern over cleanliness and the quality of food served in trains and at stations and urged zonal managers to regularly monitor the situation. "He also asked senior officers to pay attention to punctuality of trains and safety of the network," said an official after the minister reviewed the functioning of the railways with zonal general managers in Delhi. According to...
04:05 AM, Apr 04, 2013
VK Malhotra is accused of vested interest in deliberately delaying the process of getting India's ban from Olympics. ...
06:49 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Former Mayor of Patiala Municipal Corporation Jaspal Singh Pardhan, who was given a clean chit by Special Investigation Team (SIT) in a murder case, on Sunday said his future would be decided by the party high command. Addressing a news conference in Patiala at his residence, he said that he had resigned on the moral grounds after party high command has asked him to do. ...
03:13 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was constituted to investigate the recent murder of the city's former mayor Jaspal Pradhan's daughter-in-law, on Saturday gave a clean chit to him in the case. The SIT filed the chargesheet in the court of Judicial Magistrate (Ist class) in Patiala in which it gave clean chit to the former mayor in his daughter-in-law Parampreet Kaur's murder case due to "circumstantial evidences", official sources...
03:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Google has announced to shut down Google Reader, one of the world's most popular RSS readers, as part of its new spring cleaning ritual. The service will not be available after July 1, 2013. ...
11:16 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains, damaging buildings, shattering windows and showering people with broken glass. ...
12:41 AM, Feb 17, 2013
Computer and internet security agencies in the country have detected a notorious 'Android' application which illegally enters smartphones and compromises their security by sending SMSes to unknown contacts. ...
06:44 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Amitabh Bachchan launched The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation's virtual classroom facility and cleanliness drive. After inaugurating the expansion of the virtual classroom facility aimed at providing education to over 400 civic schools in Mumbai and distributing iron tablets as a part of an anti-malnutrition campaign, Amitabh Bachchan pledged his support to the cause of a clean Mumbai through BMC's latest clean up drive. ...
10:42 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The next time you spend a holiday at a hotel, do not order food in bed. A new study says a bathroom is actually the most hygienic place to eat in most hotel rooms. ...
09:50 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The former wife of author Salman Rushdie said she never skips breakfast and also takes on green tea every time. ...
01:57 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The alleged punishment of cleaning of toilets meted out to primary school children in Odisha's Kendrapara district last year has come under the scanner of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), official sources said. The NHRC has issued summons against the Commissioner-cum-secretary of schools and mass education department a week ago ordering personal appearance before it on January 11. ...
02:03 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Cleans Sports India sought Prime Minister's intervention to ensure that the Sports Code is followed in the upcoming IOA elections. ...
08:09 PM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: There is a reason why the national capital is called the crime capital of the country. In less than 24 hours, two cases of sexual abuse have come to light, both involving school bus drivers and minors were the targets in both the cases. In the first incident, a three-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by his school bus driver and cleaner. The incident happened in south Delhi. The...
09:26 AM, Sep 08, 2012
