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New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi continued to show lacklustre results in the Swachhta Survekshan. In the assessment of cities with populations exceeding 10 lakh (or million-plus cities) for 2024-25, it placed 31st out of 44. This follows the 2023-24 performance in which Delhi ranked 90th among 446 cities in the category of urban areas with populations above one lakh. MCD had aspired to rank in the top 10 in this category in 2024-25, but fell far short.Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh argued t ...Read More >
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi's public health department recently wrote to the veterinary department, requesting an examination of the issue of controlling the pigeon population in Delhi.In correspondence dated July 8, additional municipal health officer informed the veterinary department about concerns raised during the June 27 standing committee meeting regarding pigeon overpopulation and potential health risks from their droppings."It is pertinent to mention that there is no data ...Read More >
Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) [India] July 17 (ANI): In a shocking incident in Madhya Nayanapalli village of Pakala mandal, a man named Giri allegedly murdered his wife and two daughters and then attempted to take his own life. According to police reports, Giri and his wife, Hemalatha, had two daughters. In a heinous act, Giri reportedly pushed his wife and daughters into a well. A family member stated that he received a call informing him that Giri had thrown his wife and children into a well. Wh ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 17 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh's capital city has secured the third position in the category of urban spaces with population exceeding 10 lakh, while Prayagraj was adjudged the Cleanest Ganga City in the ninth edition of the Swachh Survekshan. Lucknow also became the first city in the state to achieve a 7-star Garbage Free City rating in the 2024-25 survey. Gorakhpur achieved double success, ranking third in the Safai Mitra Surakshit Sheher category and fourth among cities with a population ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has secured the 31st position in the 'Medium Cities' category in the ninth edition of the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2024-25. The awards, announced on Thursday, were based on the world's largest urban sanitation survey conducted under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban. This edition of the survey saw participation from 4,589 Urban Local Bodies, a significant increase from just 73 participating cities in 2016 when the exercise was firs ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has secured the 31st position in the 'Medium Cities' category in the ninth edition of the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2024-25. The awards, announced on Thursday, were based on the world's largest urban sanitation survey conducted under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban. This edition of the survey saw participation from 4,589 Urban Local Bodies, a significant increase from just 73 participating cities in 2016 when the exercise was firs ...Read More >
KOLKATA: An FIR has been lodged against Hasin Jahan, the estranged wife of cricketer Mohammed Shami and Arshi Jahan, Hasin's daughter from her first marriage at Suri in Birbhum district in West Bengal. A few days ago, a conflict erupted over a plot of land in the Sonator area under ward no. 5 of Suri Municipality. The land reportedly belongs to Arshi and it is alleged that neighbor Guddu Bibi was trying to encroach that land. It is alleged that after the construction work started on the land o ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has bagged the top position in the 'Super Swachh League' of Swachh Survekshan Awards, in the category of cities with a population of 50,000-3 lakh, for its exemplary work in urban sanitation, waste management, and green initiatives. Meanwhile, Noida has emerged as the cleanest city with a population of 3-10 lakh in the same category. On the other hand, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) secured 31st position in the 'Medium Cities' category ...Read More >
New Delhi: How can a school run without classrooms and only with facilities of boundary wall, toilet block and drinking water space alone, wondered the Delhi High Court. The court's observation came after being informed that authorities concerned have granted permission to repair and renovate certain facilities, except the class rooms, in an MCD-run primary school in Khirki Village, which shares a wall with the Tomb of Yusuf Qattal, a Sufi saint. "If the school is to run, it will require class ...Read More >
Mumbai: A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly strangling his five-year-old stepdaughter and dumping her body in the Arabian Sea. The body was discovered floating near Sassoon Dock in Colaba on Tuesday morning, leading to the swift arrest of the accused.According to the police, the child had been reported missing from the Antop Hill area in Central Mumbai a day earlier. Her mother, Nazia, who works as a housemaid, and Imran Shaikh, the accused, had approached the Antop Hill ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired a key meeting to review the draft Master Plan for Delhi 2041 (MPD-2041), which lays out the city's long-term urban development strategy. The meeting saw the participation of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, and senior officials from key departments, including the Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The review followed a separate session held a day earlier at the Delhi Secretari ...Read More >
A man was allegedly set on fire by a bike mechanic over a minor parking issue on Sunday night in Delhi's RK Puram area. In a shocking incident, a man in Delhi's RK Puram area was allegedly set on fire by a bike mechanic over a minor parking issue on Sunday night. The accused poured petrol on the man, to set the fire, who was sitting in his car when the whole incident took place. According to the Delhi Police, the injured man has been identified as Rahul Chauhan. He was shifted to the Trauma C ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday held a review meeting with cabinet colleagues and officials on the Master Plan for Delhi 2041. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) presented key features of the draft, which outlines the capital's urban development roadmap, officials said. "Departments like the MCD and DDA have been asked to submit their feedback and suggestions. There might be discussions based on what they suggest. It is not immediately clear whether the governme ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a shocking incident reported from Delhi, a man suffered grievous burn injuries after a bike mechanic poured petrol on him while he was smoking over a parking dispute in R.K. Puram area of the national capital. The incident unfolded on Sunday. A Delhi Police spokesperson said that the injured identified as Rahul Chauhan is undergoing treatment at the trauma center. According to Delhi Police on July 13, at around 9:30 pm, a PCR call was received at RK Puram police station about a b ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi Home and Power Minister Ashish Sood will on Tuesday boost the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' campaign - inspired by the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi - by planting a sapling in the Janakpuri area, said an official. As part of the ongoing Van Mahotsav of the Delhi government, the Minister will plant a sapling at Municipal Corporation of Delhi park in A-2 Block Ram Vatika in Janakpuri, said the official on Monday. Sood's green initiative follows Lieutenan ...Read More >
SHIVAMOGGA: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari is scheduled to inaugurate the bridge across Sharavathi backwaters between Ambargodlu and Kalasavalli on National Highway 369E on Monday. The much-anticipated cable-stayed bridge over the Sharavathi backwaters is the longest in the state and second longest in the country, stretching 2.44 km. Built at Rs 472 crore, it will improve connectivity to several villages in Sagar and Hosanagara taluks, as well as to popular temples ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: An e-rickshaw driver has been detained after glass panels being transported on his vehicle shattered and scattered along a stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route in Delhi's Shahdara, police said on Sunday. The e-rickshaw was carrying 19 glass panels from Shalimar Garden in Uttar Pradesh to Seelampur in Delhi when it was allegedly hit from behind, leading to the panels breaking and falling on the road between Chintamani Chowk and Jhilmil Metro Station, they said. The driver, Kusum Pal, fr ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered an FIR and begun investigating how shards of broken glass came to be strewn on a route in northeast Delhi's Dilshad Garden that barefoot-walking kanwariyas are expected to take during their annual pilgrimage.Lieutenant governor VK Saxena on X also said that it had come to his notice on Saturday night that large quantity of shards of broken glass had been strewn on a stretch of about a 1-km road in Dilshad Garden. "Instructed police to reach the spot and dir ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): A day after political leaders raised concerns over glass pieces allegedly scattered along the Kanwar Yatra route in Shahdra District Dilshad Garden, Delhi Police on Sunday traced the source of the broken glass and detained an e-rickshaw driver in connection with the incident. Police said that an FIR was registered at PS Seemapuri based on a complaint from the Public Works Department (PWD), after a video showing broken glass pieces on the road near Chintamani Ch ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) An e-rickshaw driver has been detained after glass panels being transported on his vehicle shattered and scattered along a stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route in Delhi's Shahdara, police said on Sunday. The e-rickshaw was carrying 19 glass panels from Shalimar Garden in Uttar Pradesh to Seelampur in Delhi when it was allegedly hit from behind, leading to the panels breaking and falling on the road between Chintamani Chowk and Jhilmil Metro Station, they said. Also Read | ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) An e-rickshaw driver has been detained after glass panels being transported on his vehicle shattered and scattered along a stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route in Delhi's Shahdara, police said on Sunday. The e-rickshaw was carrying 19 glass panels from Shalimar Garden in Uttar Pradesh to Seelampur in Delhi when it was allegedly hit from behind, leading to the panels breaking and falling on the road between Chintamani Chowk and Jhilmil Metro Station, they said. The driver, ...Read More >
Srinagar- To the world, he may be seen as extraordinarily lucky. But to 40-year-old Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the Air India crash on June 12, survival has come at an unbearable cost. Vishwas, an Indian-origin British national, was the only person to walk away alive after Flight AI171, a London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. The crash claimed the lives of 241 passengers and crew membe ...Read More >
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) brought forward the deadlines for the complete biomining of legacy waste at three landfills -- Okhla, Bhalswa, and Ghazipur -- and the reclamation of land from Dec 2028 to Dec 2026. The information was shared by the civic body after a high-level review meeting on solid waste management in Delhi. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of the CM Rekha Gupta, urban development minister Ashish Sood, mayor Sardar Raja Iqbal Singh, MCD commissioner ...Read More >
New Delhi: Compared with last year, murders rose by 4% this year between Jan and June, according to Delhi Police, though the crime data for the period showed that overall, there was a decrease of 8.4% in criminal cases.The data listed 250 murders in the current year, marking a slight increase compared with the 241 murders in the first six months of the previous year. A senior officer disclosed that the majority of this year's murders were unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment actions, triggered by ...Read More >
New Delhi: Minister Kapil Mishra on Saturday blamed 15 years of "systemic corruption and vote bank politics" for the Seelampur building collapse that claimed two lives. He said such incidents were recurring only in "certain types of areas" of the city.The culture and tourism minister alleged that a similar tragedy occurred recently in Mustafabad and warned that unless illegal and unsafe constructions were tackled head on, such incidents would continue."In certain types of areas, buildings are co ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday directed that one-third of the land reclaimed from Delhi's three major landfill sites should be used for public welfare projects such as hospitals, schools and sports complexes, while the remaining area be developed into advanced waste processing facilities. The directive was issued during a meeting held here to review the city's solid waste management progress, as the government aims to eliminate legacy waste dumps by 2026. The ch ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) In a major administrative reform, the Public Works Department (PWD) of Delhi is set to have its own engineering cadre, which will end decades of dependence on borrowed officers from the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), officials said. The proposal for cadre formation has been finalised and will be placed before the Delhi Cabinet in the coming days, they added. Once approved, the PWD will initiate the recruitment and structural realignment process, ensuring that e ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) A 19-year-old man was arrested for allegedly opening fire at a minor boy in northwest Delhi's Azadpur area to settle a personal rivalry, an official said on Friday. The accused, identified as Tanish alias Lala, was nabbed for allegedly opening fire at Aryan (17) after a brief chase in the Majlis Park area, he said. "On July 7, at 10.14 pm, information was received from Trauma Centre, Civil Lines, that Aryan had been admitted with gunshot injuries. His mother, Neetu, tol ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Amid ongoing controversy over opening of meat shops, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Thursday made it clear that there is no provision to shut meat shops on the kanwar yatra routes under the DMC ACT, 1957. The statement came a day after Culture and Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra said that meat shops would remain shut along the Yatra routes, claiming the decision was taken jointly by the Delhi government and the MCD. Speaking during an inspection from Apsara Border to Karo ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a major relief to thousands of industrial units operating in the national capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has abolished the requirement for obtaining and renewing factory licences from the civic agency. In the notified industrial areas, under the new system, the Factory Licence Fee will be fixed at 5% of the Property Tax. It will be collected annually along with Property Tax, simplifying both payment and compliance. For industrial units in designated industrial ...Read More >
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