New Delhi: The second session of the third and final Test match between India and Sri Lanka was halted for a few minutes after concerns over the poor air quality here on Sunday, forcing the Lankans to wear anti-pollution masks. The visiting Sri Lankan players wore masks while fielding after the lunch session on the […]
New Delhi: Around half-a-dozen temporary shops were gutted in a fire that broke out in a market of Delhi around midnight on Thursday, police and fire officials informed. The kiosks, comprising of pan shops and small eateries, were situated in the middle of Malviya Nagar market in south Delhi. There was, however, no casualty as most […]
New Delhi: A 30-year-old woman has been arrested for kidnapping and killing her neighbour’s minor boy over a tiff with them. Police said the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon in Uttam Nagar in west Delhi. The accused, identified as Deepmala, residing on second floor, kidnapped her neighbour’s two-year-old son, Nikhil, while he was sleeping on […]
New Delhi: To draw the attention of thousands of Delhiites towards farmers’ suicides, Jai Kisan Andolan of Swaraj India displayed farmers’ dummies hanging from various flyovers in Delhi and Noida on Thursday. With a message, “Three lakh farmers committed suicide in India, Let’s stop this now”, Jai Kisan Andolan is trying to solicit people’s support […]
New Delhi: With Delhi reeling under a blanket of smog and toxic smoke over the last couple of weeks, Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli on Thursday urged Delhites to use public transport for atleast once a week to help bring down the pollution levels in the national capital. “We all know what the situation […]
New Delhi: In a move to tackle the high pollution levels in New Delhi, the Central government on Wednesday brought forward the implementation of the BS-VI compliant cleaner transport fuels in Delhi by two years saying the requirement would now be effective in 2018. “Taking into account the serious pollution levels in Delhi and adjoining […]
New Delhi: Hours after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) gave a go-ahead to the odd-even scheme without any exemptions to two-wheelers, the Delhi government refused to implement it, saying they will approach the green court again on Monday. “At the moment we are calling it off. We will again approach the NGT and will ask […]
New Delhi: Foggy Saturday morning with addition of smog here has delayed least 64 trains. On the other hand 14 trains were rescheduled and two trains were cancelled due to the shallow fog in northern India. “The sky will remain partly cloudy during the day, with mist and shallow fog in the morning,” an official […]
New Delhi: A Jet Airways flight carrying 150 passengers on Friday landed back in New Delhi after eight hours due to non availability of taxi way at Patna airport. The Jet Airways flight 9W 730 departed from Terminal-3 at the IGI at 2.30 p.m but “due to non availability of taxi way” at the Patna […]
New Delhi: Reeling under ‘very poor’ air quality with toxins since past month, the Delhi on Sunday saw pollution levels 12 to 19 times the permissible limit during morning hours. According to the data from Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the major pollutant PM2.5 or particles with diameter less than 2.5 mm, ranged between 317 to […]
New Delhi: The Delhi government has banned hookah bars in the city and asked the Delhi Police and the Municipal Corporations to immediately cancel licenses of restaurants with hookah bars. Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday said that hookah smoking is not allowed in non-smoking zones as per Section 4 of COTPA (Cigarette and other Tobacco […]
New Delhi: With the air quality in Delhi and NCR getting worse ahead of winter, the city government has said it may bring back the odd-even vehicle rationing scheme in the capital. In a letter written on Wednesday, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot directed the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to gear up for implementation of the […]
New Delhi: The Railways on Monday introduced a thrice-weekly faster Delhi-Mumbai Special Rajdhani Express service without flexi-fares from Hazrat Nizamuddin station here on experimental basis. The Special Rajdhani Express, which will cover a distance of 1,365 km in 13 hours 55 minutes instead of 15 hours 50 minutes, was flagged off at 4.15 p.m. The […]
New Delhi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday warned people against the forces trying to destroy the country’s diversity and exhorted them to fight them. They were speaking after inaugurating a three-day ‘Kerala Delhi Cultural Heritage Festival’, to be held at three main venues in central Delhi — Central […]
New Delhi: With the air quality of the national capital and adjoining cities consistently deteriorating, major city hospitals saw a spike in the patients complaining of respiratory issues. According to the medical experts, most of the patients are being diagnosed with bronchitis and advance asthma. Experts however believe the volume of patients would be lesser […]
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