New Delhi: Delhi govt’s Hindi Academy has named several of its literary awards after nationalists and freedom fighters, including Veer Savarkar, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Madan Mohan Malaviya. A new Atal Bihari Vajpayee Award for promotion of Indian culture and knowledge traditions has also been instituted. A Hindi service award has been named after…
New Delhi: Nearly four years after the forest department imposed a Rs 5.9-crore penalty on Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) for the alleged illegal removal of 990 trees at the Bijwasan project site in Dwarka, Central Empowered Committee (CEC) and the forest department have granted permission to the authority to transplant or fell 1,254 trees…
NEW DELHI: Parts of Delhi-NCR witnessed rain and gusty winds on Thursday night as weather conditions changed abruptly across the region, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red alert for the national capital over the next few hours.The weather department warned of thunderstorms accompanied by lightning, dust-raising winds and intense surface winds…
Flames billows after a fire broke out on the fourth floor of a paying guest accommodation operating from a four-storey building at Subzi Mandi area New Delhi: A fire broke out at a paying guest (PG) accommodation in north Delhi‘s Subzi Mandi area on Thursday evening, prompting the evacuation of several residents, including students. No…
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has initiated an extensive plantation drive across the city.As part of this major urban afforestation programme launched as per LG T S Sandhu’s direction, nearly 23 lakh native saplings, comprising trees, shrubs, and bushes, are proposed to be planted across 1,000 acres of land, equivalent to nearly 4 square…
(From Right) Mala Roy, Mamata Banerjee, and Saayoni Ghosh NEW DELHI: In a fresh jolt to former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool MP Sushmita Dev resigned from both Rajya Sabha and the party on Wednesday, and dropped in for a meeting with Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma at his Delhi residence.Sushmita is the second RS…
NEW DELHI: Earth’s climate system is accumulating heat at an accelerating rate as human activity pushed global warming to 1.37 degrees Celsius last year, with the figure projected to surpass the Paris Agreement threshold of 1.5 degrees in about four years, strong and consistent evidence shows, researchers have said.Record-high greenhouse gas (GHG) levels, combined with…
Representative image generated using AI NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his friend near Khajuri Khas Metro Station in northeast Delhi following a dispute that broke out while the two were consuming cannabis, police said on Thursday.The accused, Shifayat, a resident of Chand Bagh in northeast Delhi, was arrested in…
A protest was carried out by the CJP’s founding members at Jantar Mantar on June 6. (File Photo) GURGAON: A guest teacher at a government school in Haryana’s Rohtak district has been placed under suspension days after participating in a protest organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on June 6.The…
NEW DELHI: A portion of a factory building collapsed after a fire broke out at an industrial unit in the Mayapuri area on Thursday.Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official informed that they received the call regarding the incident around 11:17 am. DFS then deployed around 18 fire tenders to extinguish the fire.The building comprises a basement,…
