NEW DELHI: The passengers of the Thiruvananthapuram–Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express reached Delhi seven hours late, but relieved that their ordeal was over. Two coaches of the train caught fire early on Sunday morning.The train caught fire in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh. No lives were lost, but many of the 68 passengers who were evacuated from coach…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Sunday evening transferred a judge of the Rohini district court. A lawyers’ body had demanded the transfer of district judge-4 (northwest) Rakesh Kumar V.He has been attached to the director of Delhi Judicial Academy with immediate effect.Judicial officer Dhiraj Mittal has been transferred from the academy to the Rohini…
New Delhi: Anticipating a likely shift from road to Metro, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will introduce 24 additional train trips using six additional trains from Monday. The additional trips will be made every Monday and on days when required. DMRC said last-mile connectivity is available across 160 metro stations, currently serving around 100,000 passengers…
New Delhi: With every flush in Delhi begins a long underground journey.In theory, sewage travels through sewers, reaches pumping stations, is treated at sewage treatment plants (STPs), and only then is safely discharged or reused.In reality, large volumes of untreated or partially treated waste still find their way into the Yamuna through stormwater drains, broken…
New Delhi: Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) has increased the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) for the second time in three days, a move that may push up freight and passenger fares in the capital.The price of CNG in the national capital increased by Re 1 per kg, from Rs 88.09 to Rs 89.09, on…
New Delhi: Seeking to curb the menace of people tampering with their vehicle’s number plates — such as erasing or hiding letters and numbers using paper or plastic — to evade toll payment at the camera-based Mundka barrierless toll plaza, NHAI has urged Delhi transport department to carry out regular and sustained enforcement drives against…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has rolled out a range of austerity measures, including rationalisation of VIP and VVIP carcade sizes, virtual meetings and coordinated route planning keeping fuel conservation and reduction of expenditure in mind.Starting from the rationalisation of VIP movements, non-patrolling staff have been asked to adopt a series of measures aimed at cutting…
A massive fire broke out in the B-1 coach of the Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express, in Ratlam on Sunday. All passengers were safely evacuated, and no casualties were reported New Delhi: The fire on the Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, on Sunday has again raised concerns over how prepared Delhi’s railway stations…
New Delhi: Observing that a bank account is the very essence of an individual’s economic existence, Delhi High Court has directed a private bank to immediately defreeze the account of a city resident, holding that its continued blocking without any FIR, accusation or judicial order was “wholly arbitrary and unsustainable in law”.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday distributed bicycles to more than 500 meritorious girl students at an event in RK Puram. She also announced that all girls taking admission to Class IX in govt schools would soon receive bicycles under a new initiative aimed at promoting girls’ education.“The education of daughters is not…
