New Delhi: The ramshackle neighbourhoods of northeast Delhi are home to 2.2 million people packed along narrow alleys. Buildings are made from a single layer of brick. Extra floors are added to dilapidated buildings not meant to handle their weight. Tangles of electrical cables hang precariously everywhere. If a major earthquake were to strike India's seismically vulnerable capital, these neighbourhoods - India's most crowded - would collapse into an apocalyptic...
11:48 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Today the Yamuna Biodiversity Park in Delhi with wetland is home to nearly 200 different species of birds and over 900 species of plants, but it has become synonymous to a filthy dead drain. However, a team of scientists is trying to restore the river's original ecosystem. This green wonder has been created by field biologist Faiyaz Khudsar and his team of scientists who have painstakingly restored the...
08:43 AM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Responding swiftly, three Delhi Police personnel saved lives of three men, including the owner of a software company, trapped in a burning car in east Delhi, police said on Tuesday. The youths in the car met an accident near Yamuna Sports Complex as they were coming from Jama Masjid area in central Delhi early on Monday, police said. All the three occupants of the car were safely rescued...
03:54 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Heavy rainfall has also caused water levels in the Yamuna river to rise near the danger mark. ...
11:51 AM, Sep 09, 2011
The village panchayat has taken over the functions of a police station in Yamunanagar. ...
12:23 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable posted at the Yamuna Bank Metro Station in Delhi allegedly shot at a fellow lady constable and at himself on Friday. Both constables have been declared dead. The incident occurred at around 7 am on Friday. Both of them were rushed to a nearby hospital after being seriously injured, and were declared dead. They have been identified as Constable M Pillai...
08:32 AM, Aug 05, 2011
Nafisa Ali turns citizen journalist to expose how storm water drain has become a sewage. ...
08:46 PM, Jul 09, 2011
Tappal: It's the third day of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's four-day padyatra. He is headed to Zikarpur where three farmers were killed last year in anti-land acquisition protests. Gandhi is expected to make impromptu stops, and continue his interaction with farmers. He has been joined by Youth Congress leaders Meenakshi Natrajan and Ravnet Bittoo. Sources say they have been sent as back-up in case the Mayawati administration picks on...
07:06 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Chandigarh: It is the great Indian scam again. This time the victims could be the people of Haryana yet again. Last year the river Yamuna flooded causing massive damage, especially at the Hathnikund Barrage. The state government has spent Rs 68 crores on repairs but an inspection team has found the new embankment is mostly sand, and very little cement. Villager Aslam says, Some have stones, some have sand, there...
07:04 AM, Jul 03, 2011
Noida: After violent farmers' protests for enhanced land compensation, authorities of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway on Monday decided to hike land rates by 12.5 per cent. To compensate the loss, authorities have also hiked land allotment rates by the same percentage. This was announced by Chairman Mohinder Singh at a press conference in the evening after a board meeting of the authorities. Besides, authorities have approved for four...
11:41 PM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: You'd expect a river to be a life-line for a city, but environmentalist Vimlendu Jha, who's been studying the Yamuna river for the past 10 years, said nothing can live in its waters. "Aquatic life here was almost nil, though there is some life left some 25 kms back," said Vimlendu Jha. There are 17 drains entering Yamuna in Delhi and almost 3,500 million liter of waste water...
09:37 AM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: You'd expect a river to be a life-line for a city, but environmentalist Vimlendu Jha, who's been studying the Yamuna river for the past 10 years, said nothing can live in its waters. "Aquatic life here was almost nil, though there is some life left some 25 kms back," said Vimlendu Jha. There are 17 drains entering Yamuna in Delhi and almost 3,500 million liter of waste water...
09:37 AM, May 09, 2011
Yamunanagar (Haryana): At least 12 college students were killed and nearly 30 injured when their bus collided head-on with a truck near this town, police said on Thursday. Fifteen of the students are in a serious condition. The students were from the Sri Ram Institute in Yamunanagar, about 110 km from state capital Chandigarh. The accident took place near Manakpur village in Chachrauli sub-division of Yamunanagar district. The bus overturned...
02:49 PM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday steered clear of remarks made by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Akshardham temple getting environment clearance, saying the NDA government must have given the required permission. "I do not know in what context Ramesh spoke. However, the decision to give the clearance was taken by the then NDA government and the permission was given by the authorities," Dikshit told reporters here....
03:05 PM, Jan 08, 2011
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