Delhi BJP chief Vijay Goel on Sunday night nominated senior BJP councillors Azad Singh and Ram Narayan Dubey as party candidates for posts of mayor in North Delhi Municipal Corporation and East Delhi Municipal Corporation respectively. Azad Singh, who is a councillor from Mundka, is the deputy mayor of North Delhi Municipal Corporation. While, Ram Narayan Dubey is a councillor from Dilshad Garden in East Delhi. ...
01:40 AM, Apr 01, 2013
New Delhi: With an aim to provide better security for children, particularly girls, North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday proposed to install CCTV surveillance cameras in all civic body-run schools. "We have proposed to install CCTV cameras in all municipal schools to provide security, especially for girls, for which extra budgetary provision has been made," Chairperson of NDMC's Education Committee, Rekha Gupta said on Wednesday. Each school will be provided...
01:25 AM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: Dengue continued to spread fast in the national capital with 37 patients today testing positive for the mosquito-borne disease, taking the total number of such cases this season to 788. Thirty-three cases were reported from three municipal corporations while one was from the VVIP areas of the capital and three from outside the city. Two children have so far succumbed to dengue ever since the disease began spreading...
07:32 PM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: The water level in the Yamuna has been rising steadily due to the incessant rains in the capital for the past five days. The government, however, says there is no need to panic as yet. No evacuations have been ordered so far. Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court has directed the government to set up a committee to solve the problem of waterlogging. The Committee will have a representative...
02:46 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Delhi Government, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the NDMC on public smoking after a PIL was filed with the court against illegal hookah bars. The PIL had pointed out that there are bars in Delhi without license to serve hookah. World Lung Foundation had asked that smoking in public places should be banned. The government is...
01:14 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: An NDMC employee, sentenced to five days in jail for driving in an inebriated condition, has been spared imprisonment by a Delhi court on the condition that he would assist police at busy traffic signals for five days. Additional Sessions Judge(ASJ) SC Rajan has asked Rajpal Singh, employed with the New Delhi Municipal Corporation to report to the South West Delhi's Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Traffic) in...
03:30 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the Delhi civic poll results in which the Congress suffered defeat should be accepted with "good grace". "These are local elections, local issues. People who work for the people, these are qualities that count. In every election, there is a winner and a loser. One has to accept it with good grace," Manmohan Singh told reporters in New Delhi on the...
03:33 AM, Apr 18, 2012
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11:57 PM, Apr 17, 2012
In a huge blow to the Congress and the Sheila Dikshit government in the capital, the BJP won the Delhi civic polls, sweeping all the three municipal corporations of Delhi. ...
11:56 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a huge blow to the Congress and the Sheila Dikshit government in the capital, the BJP won the Delhi civic polls, sweeping all the three municipal corporations of Delhi. Capitalising on issues of corruption and price rise, the BJP trumped the Congress to retain its hold in the Delhi municipal polls winning North and East Corporations and is set to capture South where it has emerged as...
07:19 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The MCD polls are being seen as an acid test for Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Delhi will know who will rule its three newly created municipal corporations when counting of votes takes place on Tuesday, an exercise which will be watched by Congress and BJP with bated breath. Counting of votes for 272 wards will take place in 33 centres across the capital on Tuesday amid tight...
06:02 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi will know who will rule its three newly created municipal corporations when counting of votes takes place on Tuesday, an exercise which will be watched by Congress and BJP with bated breath. Counting of votes for 272 wards will take place in 33 centres across the capital on Tuesday amid tight security and all results are expected to come by three pm, a senior State Election Commission...
06:48 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended till March its order staying the sealing of unauthorised commercial units operating in residential localities in the national capital and asked the authorities to ensure that no fresh encroachments or regularisations were permitted during the period. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and Swatanter Kumar passed the direction on a bunch of pleas by commercial establishments challenging the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring...
04:54 PM, Jan 03, 2012
A man slapped Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar at the NDMC Centre in New Delhi. ...
03:35 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Widening its probe, the Central Vigilance Commission is looking into at least 40 CWG-related construction and procurement works carried out by different government agencies for alleged financial irregularities. The sale of VIP passes, supply of furniture, equipment and utensil for Games Village, misuse of funds by certain central and Delhi government officials and discrepancies in appointment of placement brokers are also being examined by the anti-corruption watchdog. The...
09:43 AM, Mar 27, 2011
Just three months after Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi witnesses absence of proper maintenance. ...
08:55 AM, Feb 02, 2011
New Delhi: Aimed at speeding up its probe into the alleged corruption in Commonwealth Games (CWG) projects, the Central Vigilance Commission has directed government offices concerned to upload details of their works for the mega sporting event on its website. Sources said directions in this regard have been issued to the CWG Organising Committee, MCD, NDMC, DDA, PWD and Central Public Works Departments among others. Chief Vigilance Officers (CVOs) of...
02:00 PM, Jan 30, 2011
New Delhi: The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Saturday defended itself a day after the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) report highlighted the use of substandard material in the construction and renovation of stadiums for the Commonwealth Games. The NDMC said that strength test was conducted for Shivaji Stadium and there was no problem in the material used. "Six months back, the chief technical examiner of CVC had sent us...
08:15 PM, Oct 23, 2010
Durban: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that his side was \"completely outplayed\" by South Africa in the first one-dayer in Durban on Wednesday. Chasing 290 for victory, India suffered a top-order collapse and slumped to a humiliating 135-run defeat at the hands of a clinical South Africa in the first of the five ODIs at the Kingsmead here. And Dhoni said while bowling the visitors gave away 40 runs ...
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