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DDA auction: Only 2 of 13 hospital plots find buyers

Thursday 19 March '09

The Delhi Development Authority found few takers for the plots earmarked for hospitals, nursing homes and polyclinics that were brought under the hammer on Wednesday.
DDA auction: Only 2 of 13 hospital plots find buyers

Thursday 19 March '09

The Delhi Development Authority found few takers for the plots earmarked for hospitals, nursing homes and polyclinics that were brought under the hammer on Wednesday.
New instrument offers ‘most painless cancer treatment’

Sunday 15 March '09

“I have patients who ride in on their bicycles for treatment and then ride back home. It’s the most non-invasive and painless form of cancer treatment yet,” Dr John Adler, who has pioneered the CyberKnife...
Helicopters now launching pads for poll campaigns

Saturday 14 March '09

In these times of doom and gloom, there’s one industry that is looking up and bright. With the Lok Sabha elections around the corner...
BSES, DDA spar over Akshardham grid

Tuesday 10 March '09

The 66 KV Akshardham grid, which when built will be the sole provider of electricity for the Commonwealth Games Village, is in the centre of a legal battle between the Discom BSES and the Delhi Development Authority.
Commonwealth countdown begins with spectacular show at India Gate

Monday 9 March '09

The Tricolour reflected off the imposing façade of India Gate, a giant inflatable Commonwealth Games 2010 mascot, laser displays...
DDA plans to auction petrol pump land

Saturday 7 March '09

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) proposes a system of auctions to distribute sites for petrol pumps and gas godowns in the city.
DDA seeks three-fold hike in land allotment rates

Friday 6 March '09

If the Delhi Development Authority has its way, government institutions may shell out three times of what they pay now to acquire plots through the DDA.
Nepalese temple in E Delhi sees red as DDA raises wall in front

Saturday 28 February '09

The Pashupatinath temple at Vishwas Nagar in East Delhi is seeped in history. Back in 1953, the government granted land to the Nepalese organisation All India Nepali Society to build the shrine on the urging of Kathmandu.
DDA kept slashing budgets last year as targets remained targets

Friday 27 February '09

In an internal meeting of the monitoring committee, constituted to review the budget expenditure of the Delhi Development Authority, it emerged that most departments were grossly underperforming.
Mumbai’s autorickshaw drivers fair, Delhi foul? Cyber debate rages

Monday 23 February '09

A recent post on the popular Freakonomics blog has sparked off an intense debate in cyberspace about a subject very close to home.
Feeling the words

Sunday 22 February '09

Nature has given us the greatest tool for cultural evolution; language and we have been given language in infinite numbers,” says Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor of English and Linguistics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi.
Coming soon: power connection within 24 hours in NDPL areas

Saturday 21 February '09

Consumers in areas under the power distribution network of NDPL would soon get electricity connection within 24 hours under the company’s soon-to-be-launched “instant connection” programme.
Flat scam: DDA probe gives all its officers clean chit

Saturday 21 February '09

The high-level internal committee formed by the Delhi Development Authority to look into allegations of foul play in its 2008 housing scheme has given a clean chit to all DDA officials, sources said on Friday.
VK: drain plan to end unclean water woes

Thursday 19 February '09

The Delhi Development Authority seems to have struck upon a solution for the continuing water woes of Vasant Kunj residents.
Illegal occupants: school, police cell, govt institution, squatters

Thursday 19 February '09

The Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee’s report says encroachers have illegally occupied properties worth “almost Rs 1,000 crore” on Minto Road and Mata Sundari Road.
For a safer Delhi, risk atlas in the offing

Wednesday 18 February '09

To make Delhi one of the safest cities, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority is preparing a Risk Atlas for the Capital to assess how vulnerable it is to disasters.
Chopper jets clean up power lines, consumers brace for shock

Tuesday 17 February '09

There is a downside to the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd’s ambitious project to clean up rusty transmission lines using helicopters.
Once tripped twice shy, Power Grid gets choppers to clean lines

Sunday 15 February '09

To avoid a recurrence, the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd has now roped in Pawan Hans to keep transmission lines clean with their choppers.
What to feed the athletes in 2010? Govt puts on its thinking cap

Monday 9 February '09

In the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government had monitored food processing units through the Global Positioning System.
Discoms’ way unfair, let independent body test faulty meters: grievances cell

Friday 30 January '09

Calling the process followed by electricity distribution companies (discoms) to penalise power thefts unfair, the chairman of the Public Grievances Cell has demanded that an independent body examine suspected tampered meters.
Students design settlements on moon with modern amenities

Thursday 29 January '09

If you were to visit Moon in 2044, you could indulge in a range of ‘tourism activities’, such as visiting the site where Neil Armstrong left his legendary footprint...
On R-Day eve, city ‘Slumdogs’ see Millionaire, dream to break free

Monday 26 January '09

Danny Boyle’s film might have ruffled some feathers with the word ‘dog’ in the title but self-admitted “Slumdogs” from the Capital find nothing offensive about it.
DDA visitor feedback system: visitors pay little heed as only 21 forms received in one year

Friday 23 January '09

A year after the visitor feedback system was put in place at the Delhi Development Authority headquarters in Vikas Sadan, the department has recorded an embarrassing response with only 21 forms having been received so far.
Whistles against ‘whistleblower’

Tuesday 13 January '09

As the plot thickens in the DDA housing scheme-turned-scam, fingers are now beginning to point towards self-confessed whistleblower Deepak Kumar, arrested on Sunday evening by the Economic Offences Wing.
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