Krishna, Shashi take note: How nine of your colleagues live

Friday 11 September '09

While External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his deputy Shashi Tharoor turned 5-star hotel suites into temporary homes....

Forest Dept heat on Metro for flouting Ridge rules

Friday 11 September '09

Delhi Metro is again in the firing line, this time for the construction of temporary structures in the Central Ridge area for its workers on the Airport Express Line.

After 33 yrs, drainage set to see masterplan

Tuesday 8 September '09

Many parts of Delhi were flooded after what the authorities called “unprecedented rainfall” on July 27 and August 21.

Games committee ropes in players to counter carbon footprint in 2010

Monday 7 September '09

Delhi will be producing 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases during next year’s Commonwealth Games scheduled from October 3 to 14.

Despite ban, top brands refuse to trash plastic

Friday 4 September '09

Huge billboards declaring sales and offering prices below 50 per cent outside and people happily walking out with huge black polythene bags, is a common scene outside Shoppers Stop at Ansal Plaza in South Delhi.

Asked to ferry faulty traffic signals, man scoots

Wednesday 2 September '09

This could be straight out of a Bollywood con-comedy. An autorickshaw driver was hired by an official of a private firm to ferry defunct traffic signals to a workshop in Northwest Delhi.

Clock ticking for Games, but few rooms to house guests

Friday 28 August '09

The government’s quest for hotel accommodation for tourists expected during the Commonwealth Games may have a nail-biting finish.

Picking Ric: panel fields ‘best man’ in business for Games

Tuesday 25 August '09

At eight minutes past eight on August 8, 2008, China flagged off the Olympic Games with arguably the most spectacular show till date in a sports event.

Gangster Kishan Pehlwan joins poll fray

Thursday 20 August '09

For over a decade, Kishan Pehlwan featured among the most wanted criminals of Delhi. Now, he might soon be taking key decisions for the city sitting at the MCD headquarters at Town Hall.

Rs 5 cr spent for 23 jobs in 2008: Should employment exchange get the pink slip?

Wednesday 19 August '09

At 32, Nirmala is a past master at counting the heads ahead of her in the line to the counter and the cobwebs on the ceiling of the Delhi employment exchange. She has been doing it for the past 17 years.

Distracting: govt plans to shed some steel sprouts near AIIMS

Tuesday 18 August '09

The thick vegetation of ‘sprouts’ below the AIIMS flyover, those steely domes of modern art perched on slender shafts, will be made sparse, if a government proposal comes through.

Two years on, Madhumita is Zainab

Sunday 16 August '09

In two years, Dr Madhumita Mishra has travelled a long way, from Ramanujan Guest House in Karol Bagh to a medical college in Andhra Pradesh.

Doctor abduction case: 2-yr ordeal for techie, friend ends

Friday 14 August '09

Every time a man in uniform stared at him, even casually, former Intel engineer Shaji Yusuf would get jittery.

MLA apologises after two DJB engineers roughed up in his office

Tuesday 11 August '09

Nearly four months and a detailed investigation later, Najafgarh MLA Bharat Singh has tendered an unconditional apology for an incident in his office on April 20 when two Delhi Jal Board engineers were beaten up.

DTC beats Blueline buses in accident tally

Monday 10 August '09

Will the DTC buses soon take away the tag of ‘killer line’ from Blueline buses? Going by the statistics, it definitely seems so.

Ministry says too late to extend RTR flyover

Thursday 6 August '09

The Home Ministry has backed Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and given a green signal to the flyover on Rao Tula Ram Marg, thereby ending the stand-off between the CM and Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Tejendra Khanna over its construction.

Govt plans citizens’ committees to free hospitals of red tape

Tuesday 4 August '09

Though government hospitals are known for their apathetic attitude towards patients...

Out of the crack: New PWD mobile team to check on Capital roads

Tuesday 4 August '09

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday added a ‘mobile maintenance unit’ to the Public Work Department’s portfolio and said this team will be on its toes to repair any damage to roads in the Capital.

Govt ready to allot 7,900 flats to urban poor

Monday 3 August '09

After winning elections on the plank of providing housing for the urban poor under the Rajiv Awas Yojana, the government is finally looking to implement the scheme.

Construction behind jump in accidents

Monday 3 August '09

Over 2,000 people lose their lives in road accidents in the Capital every year; more than fifty per cent of these are pedestrians.

1 done. 2 to go

Tuesday 28 July '09

With three flyovers under construction on the Outer Ring Road between IIT and NH-8 since May 2007, commuters on this stretch are a harassed lot.

Judges fear BRT traffic mess near SC, meet Chief Secy Mehta

Saturday 25 July '09

Supreme Court judges, in a meeting with Delhi Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta on Wednesday, reportedly expressed concerns about buses running on the left side in the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system’s second run between Moolchand and Delhi Gate that starts from September 1.

Days before BRT-II gets going, SC judges say it’s a roadblock

Saturday 25 July '09

Judges of the Supreme Court have reportedly expressed reservations about the efficacy of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system’s second run between Moolchand and Delhi Gate that starts from September 1.

Trauma centre chief’s complaint dismissed

Friday 24 July '09

After being transferred for alleged negligence, Dr Yadu Lal, the former medical superintendent of the Sushruta Trauma Centre...

10 years on, battle shifts to Dwarka Kargil widows’ colony: rebuilding lives

Tuesday 21 July '09

Rekha Bhandari was just 18 when she married Mangat Singh Bhandari in village Kirmolia, in the Pauri-Garhwal district of Uttaranchal.