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Chennai, August 1: Actor, music director and producer G V Prakash Kumar, who has won the National Award for Best Music Direction (Songs) for the Tamil, Telugu bilingual film Vaathi, has called the honour "a blessing for the second time". Taking to his X timeline soon after the 71st National Awards were announced, G V Prakash expressed his gratitude to the jury and the selection committee of the National Awards and the entire team of Vaathi. G V Prakash wrote, "A blessing for the second time. I' ...Read More >
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Friday conducted "Exercise Suraksha Chakra" -- a mock drill across Delhi to gauge the Earthquake and Chemical Hazard preparedness of emergency services across the capital. The exercise with a simulated earthquake was conducted at 55 locations, including schools, hospitals, industrial areas, markets, government offices, metro infrastructure, and vulnerable urban settlements. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ordering to stop slum demolitions without rehabilitation, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday stated that no poor person will be rendered homeless as the government plans to renovate 50,000 unoccupied flats and allot them to eligible slum dwellers. "Our government's priority is to ensure that every eligible family gets a secure roof over their head and an opportunity to be rehabilitated within their own area. This is not just about providing housing; it ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 1 (PTI) Asserting no slum dwellers will be harassed anymore in Delhi, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said her government, if required, will amend the existing policy and even approach the court to protect their housing rights. The chief minister asked all government departments as well as the Indian Railways and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to refrain from demolishing jhuggi-jhopri (JJ) clusters in the city. The policy on slum clusters could be amended if required ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): A 7-year-old boy came out of an open sewer on his own and returned home after a 24-hour rescue operation failed to locate him in Rajokri village of south Delhi, Delhi police said. According to the Police, on 31 July at around 01:15 pm, police received information from some local boys that a child had fallen into a sewer near Rajokri. Following a prolonged search operation conducted by multiple agencies until late at night, no child could be recovered from the ...Read More >
In a high-level meeting held with senior officials on Saturday, the Chief Minister expressed serious concern over the poor state of sanitation, waste management, road infrastructure, safety, drainage, and drinking water supply in these markets. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has taken a strong and proactive stance on revitalising the national capital's wholesale fruit, vegetable, and flower markets. She has directed the concerned departments to initiate immediate corrective measures while lay ...Read More >
This came to light in a July 10 counter affidavit filed before the SC by the Department of Forests and Wildlife's Deputy Conservator of Forests/Tree Officer (West Division) The Delhi Forest department has told the Supreme Court that "fake permission" was issued in the name of the office of the Deputy Conservator of Forests or the Tree Officer (West Division) to fell trees in a "morphological ridge" land - an ecologically sensitive zone -- in Vasant Kunj for a housing project. This came to ligh ...Read More >
Delhi Power Minister Ashish Sood ordered officials to draft a detailed Power Master Plan for 2026-29. New Delhi: Delhi's Rekha Gupta Government is developing a long-term plan to prevent blackouts in National Capital as city's peak electricity demand expected to surge in coming years. At a high-level meeting Friday, Power Minister Ashish Sood ordered officials to draft a detailed Power Master Plan for 2026-29. Delhi Transco Limited (DTL) officials said they plan to ramp up the city's transmis ...Read More >
The Delhi government will launch a month-long cleanliness campaign from August 1, with active participation from schools, resident welfare associations (RWAs), and community groups, Education Minister Ashish Sood said. According to a statement, the preparations for the large-scale campaign were reviewed during a high-level meeting chaired by Mr. Sood at the secretariat on Friday (July 18, 2025). Modi launches initiatives to shape cleaner, greener future for Delhi Mr. Sood, who is the Educatio ...Read More >
"The Commissioner of Police shall continue to deploy a police team for patrolling in the area and ensure that all the demolition orders passed by the MCD, over which courts have not granted any stay, are meticulously complied with and where the illegal/unauthorized constructions are going on, such properties are sealed forthwith," the bench said. A compliance report from the local DCP was directed to be filed on the next hearing. The bench said no residential property would be converted to com ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Resident Welfare Association (RWA) of Signature View Apartments in Mukherjee Nagar on Thursday said that the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has assured them that rent compensation for all residents will be cleared by the end of this month. The DDA had issued an e-tender in March to demolish Signature View Apartments, which comprises 336-flat complex, and declared it structurally unsafe. Built in the mid-2000s as part of a DDA housing scheme, the apartments developed severe str ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asserted that anyone involved in illegal constructions in Delhi's Chandni Chowk area should be arrested immediately. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi asked the police to take action the offenders, stating, "Arrest anybody who lays even a single brick (in Chandni Chowk), we will see who grants them bail. This is a complete fraud going on in collusion with these municipal corporation officials. This must be stopped....". The SC was hearing ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A court-appointed inspection report submitted to the National Green Tribunal has laid bare the environmental disaster festering at Delhi's Ghazipur landfill, exposing glaring lapses in solid waste management. The inspection revealed a mountain of untreated waste far exceeding the permitted height, uncontrollable methane emissions, toxic leachate oozing into drains and making its way to the Yamuna River, and a complete absence of boundary walls, raising severe health, environmental, an ...Read More >
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Friday hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey over his recent "patak patak ke maarenge" remark, daring him to come to Mumbai. Raj Thackeray took aim at Nishikant Dubey's comments, saying, "A BJP MP said 'Marathi logon ko hum yahan pe patak patak ke maarenge' (we will thrash Marathi people here mercilessly)... You come to Mumbai. Mumbai ke samundar mein dubo dubo ke maarenge. (We will thrash them by drowning them repeatedly i ...Read More >
THANE, July 18: A man and his two children died as their motorbike was dashed by a truck in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district of Maharashtra.Gopal Chandanse (36), his wife and two kids were riding to their village when the truck dashed the two-wheeler from behind around 3.30 pm.They were taken to the hospital where Gopal, his son Hriday (7) and daughter Avani (9) were declared dead. Gopal's wife Meenabai (32) was injured and undergoing treatment.The truck driver fled from the spot, leaving his ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rebuked unauthorised constructions in Chandni Chowk despite a court-ordered ban and asked Delhi Police to arrest those "putting even a brick".A bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi told Delhi Police commissioner to deploy patrolling parties in the area and immediately stop the unauthorised constructions. "The commissioner of police shall continue to deploy a police team for patrolling in the area and ensure that all the demolition orders passed ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is expediting the development of its sixth waste-to-energy facility at Ghazipur, designed to process 2,000 tonnes of waste daily. Proposals from specialised agencies have been invited for project implementation. Apart from the current agency biomining the legacy waste at the landfill, MCD will also hire a separate agency to clear 15 acres there to make space for the new WTE facility. This initiative coincides with MCD receiving environmental clearanc ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) Aiming complete reclamation of the capital's three major landfill sites -- Ghazipur, Bhalswa, and Okhla -- the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has ramped up operations by adding two additional trommels at each dumpsite, an official said on Friday. As part of its ongoing biomining operations, the civic body of Delhi (MCD) noted that a massive extraction of legacy waste occurred over three years, from July 2022 to July 9, 2025. The civic body is targeting complete re ...Read More >
Bengaluru: After Delhi, nearly 40 schools in Bengaluru received bomb threats via e-mail on Friday morning, leading to panic among students, teachers and parents. Police teams have rushed to all locations and search operations are underway. Schools in R R Nagar and Kengeri were among those targeted, the police said. Cyber experts are making all efforts to trace the sender of the mail. Sources revealed that the sender could be suffering from mental health issues. In the mail, he has spoken about ...Read More >
New Delhi: A fresh wave of bomb threats sent shockwaves across Delhi on Friday morning, as more than 20 schools reportedly received threatening emails warning of potential blasts. Among the institutions that received the threats were Richmond Global School in Paschim Vihar and Abhinav Public School in Rohini Sector 3. Chaos and panic among students, parents and staff Following the alerts, Delhi Police, bomb disposal squads, and fire department teams rushed to the affected schools. Security che ...Read More >
New Delhi: BJP and AAP engaged in a war of words on Monday over Delhi govt's decision to enhance the reimbursements for the mobile phones of the chief ministers and ministers.While AAP accused BJP of being "anti-poor" and celebrating by gifting expensive mobile phones to ministers, the party in power said the gadgets were used for storing records and official work, and even MLAs and MCD councillors used them.The general administration department, in an office memo issued on July 9, enhanced the ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: State BJP president N Ramchander Rao on Thursday slammed the Congress government and Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for failing to address farmers' issues despite completing 19 months in office. Speaking at the Kisan Morcha state office-bearers' meeting at the BJP headquarters in Hyderabad, he accused the state government of neglecting farmers due to its skewed policies. He urged party workers to collaborate with the Kisan Morcha to highlight farmers' grievances and counter the Cong ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: How can a school run without classrooms and only with facilities like a boundary wall, toilet block, and drinking water space alone, the Delhi HC asked, expressing dismay at the authorities for their inaction in rebuilding an MCD-run primary school in Khirki Village. The court's remark came after it was informed that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) had granted permission for repair and renovation of existing facilities like a porta cabin, toilet block, boundary wall, and wat ...Read More >
The Delhi High Court questioned how a school could function without classrooms, noting permission was granted only for boundary walls, toilets, and drinking water facilities at an MCD-run primary school in Khirki Village. The court directed the MCD to seek ASI permission for classroom construction, emphasizing the necessity for running the school effectively and set a deadline for a decision. How can a school run without classrooms and only with facilities of boundary wall, toilet block and dri ...Read More >
JAMMU, July 17: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah congratulated BJP leader Kavinder Gupta on his appointment as Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh, and said that he will need to keep in mind that, just like in Jammu and Kashmir, one has to maintain a balance and be sensitive to the sentiments of the people of Leh and Kargil regions. Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsApp "My best wishes to Kavinder Gupta on being appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh. But this res ...Read More >
New Delhi: Wondering how a school can operate without classrooms, and only with a boundary wall, toilet block and drinking water, Delhi High Court has ordered Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to take immediate corrective steps. It also directed the civic body to seek necessary permissions from Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for the construction of the classrooms. HC's observation came while dealing with the case of a corporation-run primary school in Khirki village, which shares a wall ...Read More >
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Corporation has been ranked 28 out of 44 cities in the cleanliness survey (Swachh Survekshan 2025) under the category of cities with population of more than 10 lakh. The cleanliness ranking was released on Thursday by the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA).Coimbatore has shown significant improvement in rankings. It stood at 35th place in 2023 and 46th place in 2022.In Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore has maintained its top position for the third consecutive year whil ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 16 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi government to issue a fresh notification to declare the Lodhi-era monument "Gumti of Shaikh Ali" a protected monument under law. The dispute over the monument came to limelight when the top court directed the Defence Colony resident welfare association to vacate its structures and pay Rs 40 lakh to the archaeology department of the Delhi government as compensation for occupying the historical place since the 1960s. A ben ...Read More >
New Delhi: Even after the Supreme Court's Thursday deadline to clear the environs at the Gumti of Shaikh Ali at Defence Colony, a visit in the afternoon revealed the truth of what the court described as a 'warzone'.The surface of the park in front of the 700-year-old Lodhi-era monument was a patchwork of disparity: some spots had green grass, others were just dry and bald cracked mud. In a corner, a fallen signboard tried dismally to stay relevant. It once proudly declared that the South Delhi M ...Read More >
Bengaluru Stampede Probe: The Karnataka government's status report on the deadly stampede outside Bengaluru's M. Chinnaswamy Stadium lays primary blame on RCB, its event management partner DNA Entertainment Networks Pvt. Ltd, and the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), accusing them of unilaterally organising the mass public event without securing legal permission or coordinating with city authorities. The question here arises is - All To Blame But Congress Govt? Watch panel discussion o ...Read More >
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