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Tuesday 31 March '09

It was an evening to remember, as Malvika Sarukkai performed at the ongoing Chandigarh Arts and Heritage Festival on Sunday evening.
Eastern UP: 44 candidates file nomination for Phase I

Friday 27 March '09

Around 44 candidates filed their nomination papers on Thursday to contest from the 16 parliamentary constituencies within eastern Uttar Pradesh, which will be going to polls on April 16.
Fashion Fiesta

Friday 27 March '09

Yudhajit Dutta is a busy man. The director of Mindscapes group of companies, which is organizing the Kolkata Fashion Week, is busy with last-minute preparations for what may very well prove to be the biggest fashion spectacle that the city has seen.
TURNING OVER

Thursday 5 March '09

An enchilada is a corn tortilla or corn bread rolled around a filling and covered with a chilly-pepper sauce...
Govt detours panel, gets projects going

Wednesday 4 March '09

The turbulent relationship between the Delhi government and the Delhi Urban Art Commission under its previous chief Charles Correa shows no signs of abating.
The Big Picture

Friday 27 February '09

Multiplication and addition, that’s the name of the game when it comes to Big Entertainment.
Funds: Delhi govt, ministry play eyeball to eyeball

Wednesday 25 February '09

As the Parliamentary committee questioned Delhi’s preparedness for the Commonwealth Games, the Sheila Dikshit government and the Union Urban Development Ministry locked horns over the funding of Games projects under the ministry’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
DYFI gets a bitter HC pill for litter at rally

Tuesday 10 February '09

The Calcutta High Court on Monday said the DYFI had violated its 2007 order during a rally it organised at Brigade Parade Ground on December 20 last year and directed the court administration to serve a show-cause notice to the outfit asking it why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against it.
Now, pay for driving in bus lane on corridor

Sunday 1 February '09

Finally, lane violators on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor are now penalised. Like other traffic violations, the penalty for cars and scooterists using the bus lane on the corridor will be a maximum of Rs 500, Delhi government officials confirmed.
Games: CM asks Montek for funds

Tuesday 20 January '09

After Finance Minister A K Walia asked all civic agencies in the Capital to rework and whittle down budget estimates for various Commonwealth Games projects earlier this month, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met Montek Singh Ahluwalia...
JNNURM scheme to boost public transport system in cities

Tuesday 13 January '09

The Union Urban Development Ministry on Monday announced a scheme under the second phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission...
Hotels can grow vertically, at a lower price

Friday 9 January '09

In a boost to the hospitality sector, the central Urban Development Ministry has decided to provide financial incentives to hotels in the Capital that are interested in expanding their infrastructure.
Capital set to switch from deed to title registration system

Sunday 28 December '08

The National Capital is set to have a new system of land registration - a year after the process of developing a new law for the city began -to establish “without doubt” the ownership right over properties.
BRT on, IIT expertise gone: UK consultants on corridor road now

Saturday 20 December '08

Sheila Dikshit may have come back with a bang just the other week but the government was busy chalking out plans to execute the Bus Rapid Transit System over the past two months, even as campaigning for the Assembly elections was on.
Delhi should abandon its ‘failed BRT’ model: panel

Wednesday 17 December '08

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on urban transport said on Tuesday that despite the “potential benefits of BRTS”, the Bus Rapid Transit System BRTS has been a failure in the Capital.
It’s a long road to Delhi

Monday 24 November '08

It will be one of the toughest and closest fights that the national capital territory of Delhi has seen in its political history.
Bubble gone ‘bust’, developers build on dream with free gifts

Saturday 25 October '08

With the Sensex taking one tumble after the other and amid a liquidity scare in the banking sector, the real estate industry is coming up with novel ways to attract a market that is slowing down.
BJP eyes 40 seats in unauthorised colonies

Tuesday 21 October '08

While maintaining that the BJP’s attempt will be to secure all 70 Assembly seats in the approaching elections, senior leaders of the party say field workers have been given instructions to work at getting as many votes as possible in unauthorised colonies — which have so far been traditional Congress seats.
Babus spar, HC judges ‘homeless’

Sunday 19 October '08

The Urban Development Ministry and the Delhi government has had a series of collisions of late over Commonwealth Games and infrastructure projects.
UP tells Delhi: Divert drain, we don’t want your pollution

Monday 13 October '08

The Uttar Pradesh government has asked Delhi administration that it does not want its Shahadra drain to flow into Noida.
Divert drain, we don’t want Delhi’s pollution: UP

Monday 13 October '08

The Uttar Pradesh government has told Delhi that it does not want its Shahdara drain to flow into Noida. A delegation of senior officials from the UP government...
Now, Metro gets commercial green light

Saturday 11 October '08

The Delhi Metro can now develop property at its stations and use land whichever way it deems fit, without the government’s go-ahead, to ensure all its future projects are cost-effective.
After years, housewarming time for CGHS home owners

Thursday 9 October '08

Naresh Nagpal will now be able to apply for a passport, for he finally has a “permanent address”. One of 6,000 CGHS flat owners awaiting allotment since a scam was unearthed in 2004...
Delhi to help Himachal build three new dams

Monday 6 October '08

In a bid to solve the city’s water problems, the Delhi government has tied up with the Himachal Pradesh government to construct three dams in the Upper Yamuna.
Legalising colonies: Sheila, Maken fight for one-upmanship

Saturday 4 October '08

When Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday gifts provisional certificates of regularisation to residents of the Capital’s 1,500-odd unauthorised colonies...
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