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.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.Tuesday
8 September '09As 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.Friday
4 September '09As 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.Wednesday
2 September '09Following 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.Monday
31 August '09The 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.Thursday
27 August '09The Delhi Development Authority has proposed to build 65,000 houses for people from across varied income groups over the next four years.Wednesday
26 August '09Cut to the chase: that, in effect, is Delhi’s green story. Figures compiled from responses to a Right To Information application filed by The Indian Express say 38,372 trees have been cut by the MCD, NDMC, DDA, the Public Works Department and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.Sunday
23 August '09An extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the Press Club of India on Saturday passed a resolution to dissolve the present management committee.Sunday
23 August '09Three weeks after Mamata Banerjee flagged off exclusive trains for women, THE SUNDAY EXPRESS hitches rides on two of them. There are no rules here, except that men are to stay away....Tuesday
18 August '09Two premier educational institutes on Asaf Ali Marg, Indian Institute of Mass Communication and the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research, have been without power for over 28 hours.Saturday
15 August '09Addressing the Constituent Assembly, Lord Mountbatten felt confident that India and her leaders would be worthy of her destiny...Thursday
13 August '09Tuesday night saw a repeat of protests held in June against the repeated and prolonged powercuts in the Capital.Wednesday
12 August '09The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will now be allowed to expand the scope of its property development.Wednesday
12 August '09After power comes water, and North Delhi Power Limited, which supplies electricity in North and Northwest Delhi, is keen to expand its portfolio.Tuesday
11 August '09The DDA on Monday approved the zonal plan for construction on the Yamuna riverbed after scrapping a host of proposed projects.Tuesday
4 August '09Circa 1921, a cluster of families who lived in the area now occupied by the New Delhi Railway Station were asked to vacate their premises as the land was earmarked for the construction of the new railway station.Tuesday
4 August '09Bogged down by the economic slowdown, the real estate sector is going all out to woo would-be buyers.Sunday
2 August '09A small Buddhist town perched on the steep cliffs of the Himalayas celebrates historySaturday
25 July '09Most people would use either a shop, a billboard or road signanges as landmarks. For Yoav Daniel Bar-Ness, though, nothing comes as close to being a landmark as trees.Wednesday
22 July '09If all goes according to plan, Delhi will soon have more tree-flanked thoroughfares of the kind that presently characterise Lutyens’ Delhi.Monday
13 July '09On Saturday evening, a few labourers at the construction site were discussing whether they should raise an alarm in earnest about the “crack” on the pillar 67.Monday
29 June '09In a meeting held on Sunday afternoon, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who also holds the portfolio for power, conveyed to BSES Chairman Lalit Jalan that BSES has to treat the present power crisis as an “internal emergency”.Sunday
28 June '09At 2.35 pm on Saturday, the Capital reset the bar for peak-hour power demand in its recorded history: it read 4218 MW.Saturday
27 June '09The Delhi government has made a temporary allotment of 13 acres of land at the Rajghat power plant and 16 acres at the Indraprastha power plant...
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