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Boxers, wrestlers to help Northern Railway fight ticketless travel

Tuesday 10 November '09

Northern Railway, one of the largest zones in the Indian Railways, has come up with an out-of-the-box solution to curb the age-old problem of ticketless travel.
June debacle in mind, BRPL prepares for summer ahead

Monday 9 November '09

Unprecedented blackouts in June this year nearly brought the Capital to a standstill. All firefighting measures employed by discoms-particularly BSES Rajdhani Power Limited failed to work.
Soon, buy power from a smart grid at the price you want

Friday 6 November '09

A pilot project, envisaged by the North Delhi Power Limited, plans to make consumers a smart user, with a say in when to buy power and at what cost.
To check losses, DJB turns to discom

Wednesday 4 November '09

After a spree of informal discussions with the Delhi Jal Board, the North Delhi Power Limited — which distributes power in North and Northwest Delhi...
Rithala 108-MW power plant will begin operations next June

Wednesday 4 November '09

North Delhi Power Limited’s 108-MW combined cycle gas-turbine power plant at Rithala is likely to begin operations by June next year.
Faulty billing: Consumers told to file complaints to get relief

Wednesday 4 November '09

Following the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission’s order last Friday declaring that discom BSES will have to provide certain relief measures to consumers who have received abnormally high electricity bills in June...
‘Victims’ of inflated bills still in the dark as BSES gets new chiefs

Wednesday 21 October '09

While the power distribution company (discom) BSES has removed its earlier chief executive officer and got in two new CEOs, some 60,000-odd consumers who were issued inflated bills in August are still awaiting a solution.
Mumbai plays role model for Delhi slum rehabilitation scheme

Tuesday 20 October '09

As the delhi government gets on course to implement its pilot in-situ rehabilitation project at Kathputli Colony, there are important lessons to be learnt from Mumbai’s largely successful venture into slum rehabilitation. Or so thinks the Lieutenant-Governor, Tejendra Khanna.
DDA’s slum makeover plan takes off with Kathputli Colony

Wednesday 7 October '09

Real estate firm Raheja Developers has bagged the contract to rehabilitate ‘in-situ’ — or at the same place — slums at Kathputli Colony in Shadipur.
20,000 trees to be axed for power sub-station

Tuesday 6 October '09

Even as Delhi government gets ready for a ‘green’ Commonwealth Games, more than 20,000 trees and saplings are set to be axed for a new power sub-station to be built by the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited in Ghummanhera in the West Forest division.
Getting ready: 30 women cabbies to steer Games traffic

Tuesday 6 October '09

Nineteen-year-old Jyoti Solanki is tiny for her age, barely five feet and a whisper. Solanki is among the 30 women who will drive cabs during the Commonwealth Games next October.
S Delhi faces hours of powercut, transmission lines blamed

Monday 5 October '09

For the last week, residents of Jangpura have been subjected to power cuts lasting for three to four hours.
DDA team driven out of Jamia Nagar

Saturday 3 October '09

A posse of Delhi Police officers, MCD officials and officials from the DDA’s land management department were forced to beat a hasty retreat from Jamia Nagar late on Thursday evening.
Road to development needs breathing space, say experts

Tuesday 29 September '09

The Capital got its share of expert opinion on alternative urban planning at the recent Urban Habitat Summit, held at the India Habitat Centre...
BSES faces heat over June outage

Saturday 26 September '09

Facing public ire for issuing inflated electricity bills recently, power distribution company (discom) BSES Rajdhani Private Limited faced more flak at a public hearing called by the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission on Friday.
Time ripe for a green economic revolution: experts

Friday 25 September '09

The country might already have a Green Revolution under its belt, but that is hardly enough, if participants at the Green Jobs Fair are to be believed.
Consumers say kill bill, govt orders power probe, wait goes on

Wednesday 23 September '09

After various Residents’ Welfare Associations met Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit nearly 10 days ago to voice their grievances regarding the issue of inflated power bills, a flurry of probes are underway.
Congress infighting in Okhla, Sheila rallies behind Suri

Monday 14 September '09

Five months ago, Sandeep Dikshit of Congress walked through the meandering lanes of Jamia Nagar amid cheering supporters and swept the Lok Sabha polls.
BSES records increase in power consumption, NDPL registers dip

Thursday 10 September '09

While BSES claimed on Monday that there has been a spurt in power consumption in Delhi, distribution company NDPL on Wednesday claimed that statistics in its areas indicate that power consumption has gone down as compared to last summer.
Rusted rents

Thursday 10 September '09

In 1948, Rattan Chand Ahluwalia rented a shop from Atal Behari Sharma’s father in the heart of Chandni Chowk’s photo market for what may have then been a handsome amount of Rs 72 per month.
For underground electricity wires, CM asks Centre for funds

Tuesday 8 September '09

As the residents of the Walled City continue to live under the shadow of low-hung mesh of electricity wires, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has reportedly asked the Union Ministry of Power to consider funding a project to move the overhead wires underground.
He ate food from the canteen, met people without appointment

Friday 4 September '09

As leaders cutting across political borders trudged into the Andhra Bhawan to pay their respects to the deceased chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, a forlorn figure dressed in starched white quietly observed the proceedings.
As journalists fight on, Sonia gives back her Press Club card

Wednesday 2 September '09

Following the spate of recent allegations and counter-allegations, the Press Club of India woke up to a rude shock on Tuesday morning: Congress president Sonia Gandhi had given up her honorary membership of the club.
In October, DDA may start allotment of over 5,000 flats of stalled scheme

Monday 31 August '09

The Delhi Development Authority is likely to begin allotment of the 5,238 flats in the stalled Housing Scheme ’08, by the first week of October.
DDA to build 65,000 houses; prefabricated units in offing

Thursday 27 August '09

The Delhi Development Authority has proposed to build 65,000 houses for people from across varied income groups over the next four years.
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