After functioning virtually for nearly five months, Delhi high court will resume physical hearings in five courts from September 1.
New Delhi railway station will get a swanky look and the surrounding railway land will get a couple of high-rises of up to 40 floors on the Ajmeri Gate side for commercial, office, hotels and other uses by the middle of 2025. The proposed station terminal is projected to have a built-up area of approximately 33 lakh square feet, which is nearly 60% the size of T-3 of IGI Airport.
It was a race against time on Wednesday night for policemen who were alerted by the office of the British prime minister about a possible suicide attempt by a woman in Delhi.
A joint demolition drive had been undertaken by the MCG and the DTCP on Wednesday, in which eight properties were razed.
Preparations are on for the third serological survey scheduled to begin in the national capital from Tuesday.
With Covid-19 cases once again on the rise, the Delhi government has decided to carry out double the number of tests - 40,000 - daily as a precautionary measure. Both antigen tests and the gold standard RT-PCR tests will be ramped up in a week. This aggressive testing is likely to lead to detection of more cases and allow the government to make an early intervention for containment and isolation to check the pandemic's spread.
When asked why he prefers his mental ability to arrive at answers to complex mathematical problems when there is a calculator for such things, Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash nonchalantly replies, “Why does Usain Bolt run when he has a car?” And then he elaborates, “It’s simple. Exhibiting a global dominance in terms of physical achievement inspires a generation that wants to adopt Bolt’s way of life. That is what I want to do with mental maths from India.”
Commuters between Delhi and Noida-Ghaziabad no longer need to show passes to cross the border, a rule that had been in place for the past three months and led to severe inconvenience among those who needed to travel between the cities regularly. A green status on the Aarogya Setu will be enough to allow entry into the UP cities from Delhi.
Delhi high court on Tuesday rejected the parole plea of Vikas Yadav, who was convicted of murdering Nitish Katara, after finding gaping holes in his claims that his mother was seriously ill and had been admitted in a private hospital briefly. Yadav had approached the court after Delhi government had rejected his plea for parole on June 26.
Moderate to heavy rain is likely to occur on Thursday and Friday in the national capital. An orange alert has been issued by the meteorological department.
In an unusual fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, eye donations have seen a drastic fall at AIIMS. Data shared by the hospital, which runs one of the most active eye transplant programmes in India, shows only 450 cornea donations this year between January and July against 1,244 in the corresponding period of 2019.
Taking cognisance of a TOI report on construction going on in the ecologically sensitive Aravali Hills, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed an immediate stay on the construction of a road after flattening an entire hill in an area being developed illegally and sought a report from Haryana on the alleged violation of its order.
A farmhouse can’t be built surreptitiously, let alone 50. But in a protected area, they did come because the developers did not feel the need to hide anything. No one stopped them, either from turning protected rocky terrain into manicured properties, or flattening an entire hill to build a service road.
An entire Aravali hillock has been flattened to build an approach road for farmhouses being constructed in Bandhwari, around 1.5km off the Gurugram-Faridabad road.
The Election Commission (EC) on Monday dismissed allegations that it had gone against its own norms by allowing the Delhi Police to access photographs from its electoral rolls database for facial recognition of persons captured by CCTV cameras for rioting in the capital in February this year.
A drive to the popular cluster of dhabas at Murthal near Sonipat in Haryana is a quick adventure for many Delhi people, particularly the youth. However, the drive is not a smooth one. In the rainy season, National Highway 1 is decidedly risk-filled because of a deadly combination of potholes, unguarded dividers and lack of police presence.
An underage driver was at the wheel of the Ecosport that collided with the Harley Davidson that Alok Gupta, who died in the accident near Cyber City on Sunday, was riding.
Home isolation has turned out to be an effective means of fighting the novel coronavirus with 77,571 patients not requiring admission to a hospital or Covid care centre. The government permitted home isolation at the end of April.
A finance firm executive riding a Harley Davidson to Noida died on Sunday morning after being hit by an MUV that had crashed into the divider and toppled onto the other carriageway to collide with the bike near Cyber City.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday urged the Centre to allow the Delhi Metro services to restart on a trial basis and in a phased manner to ease commuters’ problems. The metro has now been shut for 155 days, since March 22.
