The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is expected to add planning to add at least 44 new metro stations by the financial year 2026-27. The addition of stations will be a part of the much-anticipated Delhi Metro Phase-4 corridor, which has a route length of more than 395 km (including the Noida Metro Aqua Line and Rapid...
Sixteen bills, including the Finance Bill 2025, amendments to the Waqf and Banking Regulations Act, and the merging of the Indian Railways and Indian Railways Board Acts, will be tabled in Parliament’s Budget session, which begins Friday with the Economic Survey 2024/25. Among the 13 others likely this session are amendments to the Disaster Management...
With the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections approaching, Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during a public rally in Rohini, accusing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of misgovernance and neglect. Addressing the gathering, Shah criticised Kejriwal’s administration for the deteriorating state of the national capital. “In the...
Accusing the ruling AAP of stalling the development in the national capital, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva asserts that it is his party at the Centre that had worked to spruce up infrastructure in the city. He tells Parvez Sultan the BJP is all set wrest power in Delhi after 27 years. Excerpts: There is...
Delhi’s air quality worsened to ‘very poor’ early today (January 30) and air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 381 at 8 am, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Earlier, Grap-3 restrictions were reimposed in Delhi after the city’s AQI dropped to ‘severe’ level on Wednesday (January 29). The Commission for Air Quality...
Delhi Police registered a case after a vehicle labelled “Punjab government” was on Wednesday (January 29, 2025) intercepted with cash, liquor and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) pamphlets, an official said. The vehicle bearing a Punjab number plate was caught by the Flying Squad team in the New Delhi district, the official said. The Flying Squad attends to all...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met Dubai’s Crown Prince and UAE’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Hamdan bin Mohammed and discussed ways to further strengthen the UAE-India strategic partnership and enhance people-to-people ties. Jaishankar arrived in the UAE on Monday on a three-day visit to advance the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between...
Arvind Kejriwal is in fresh legal trouble as a Haryana court has issued summons to the former Delhi Chief Minister over his claim that the state government was “poisoning” the Yamuna to disrupt Delhi’s water supply. The court has directed Kejriwal to appear before it on February 17. If he fails to do so, action will be...
The Election Commission sought evidence from AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal to substantiate his allegation that neighbouring Haryana is poisoning the Yamuna river. In a letter to Kejriwal, the Election Commission (EC) sought by 8 pm on Wednesday the nature and extent of the chemicals used for “poisoning” the Yamuna which could kill people in large...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched their GSLV-F15 carrying the NVS-02 on 6:23 AM at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, marking ISRO’s 100th rocket mission. The mission is also the first for the space agency’s Chairman V Narayanan, who assumed office recently. It is ISRO’s maiden venture this year. The satellite was “precisely injected into...