Bishnoi gang plotted Aftab’s murder in Court

New Delhi: Shubham Lonkar, a key suspect...

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Bhagat Singh College marks 50th year

Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges of Delhi University, has completed 50 years of its existence and has...

AAP student wing will not contest DUSU

The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) students’ wing has decided to stay away from this year’s Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) polls, citing its lack...

North DMC fails to remove encroachments

After the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) failed to act on the orders of the Public Grievance Commission (PGC) to remove heavy encroachments and...

DPS Society in Delhi ignores DPS Srinagar

The Delhi Public School (DPS) Srinagar has so far received no help from the DPS Society in New Delhi, as the Society seems to...

Organ donation figures abysmally low in India

India’s organ donation figures are abysmally low, with less than 0.50 donors per million population, compared to over 30 donors per million in some...

Long queues at IGI immigration counters irk passengers

Long queues at the Indira Gandhi International Airport’s immigration counters during peak hours have become reason for regular complaints of both passengers and officials...

Kejri govt goes on a demolition drive

The demolition drive carried out by the Delhi government’s Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) over the past two weeks in the national capital...

‘Indian airports under threat, need security overhaul’

The country’s airports are vulnerable to security threats and are not equipped enough to face and thwart attacks of the kind that happened at...

‘Road accidents are as horrifying as plane crash’

Road accidents snuff out numerous innocent lives across the country every year. In an exclusive interview to The Sunday Guardian, T.K. -Malhotra, president, Automobile...

Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College on the path of revival

The Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College in Delhi, set up in 1921, seems to be on the path of revival after being a picture...

Admissions on, but DU teachers continue stir

Delhi University’s admission process for all its undergraduate courses commenced on Thursday with the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) boycotting the admission process protesting...

‘States are not cooperating on road safety measures’

The alleged lack of cooperation by several state governments on the issue of road safety is one of the main reasons coming in the...

Skyrocketing PG rents hit DU students hard

In the absence of a regulated renting system, outstation students seeking rented accommodation around the Delhi University campus have always faced the problem of...

Ban is no deterrent to sale of exotic animals, birds in Delhi

Despite the ban on the sale and purchase of endangered and exotic animals and birds, these are easily available in Delhi and elsewhere in...

‘UGC notification will render ad hocs jobless’

A recent notification of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to increase the workload of professors of Central universities has triggered panic among ad hoc...

‘Disease is not merchandise’

At 90, continuing to serve humanity may perhaps be the last thought on the mind of many men his age. Not Dr Lal Singh,...

Veteran journalist Inder Malhotra passes away

Veteran journalist, editor and author Inder Malhotra, who was ailing for the past couple of years, breathed his last on Saturday afternoon at a...

‘Incompetent’ Delhi ACB angers grievance panel

The Delhi Public Grievance Commission (PGC) has recently transferred six cases of illegal construction and disproportionate assets in the national capital to the Central...

IHRO will mark Environment Day at IICC

India Eye International Human Rights Observer (IHRO) in collaboration with UN Information Centre for India and Bhutan is organising an event on Sunday to...

Anand Vihar, Bijwasan stations set for revamp

The existing Anand Vihar and Bjiwasan rail stations are set for a major revamp, with separate arrival and departure terminals at both the stations....

AAP starts mobilising resources for Goa polls

Following Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s rally in Panaji last week to initiate the party’s campaign to...

Interlinking of rivers still not a reality

First proposed by the NDA government under then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the ambitious project to interlink rivers to try and solve India’s...

Heat wave in India part of global phenomenon, say experts

The relentless heat wave conditions that North India has been experiencing of late, with temperatures rising upwards of 50 degrees Celsius at some places,...

Delimitation push for municipal wards

Keeping in mind the increase in Delhi’s population, the Delhi State Election Commission is continuing with a delimitation process it had started in October...

Delhi scientist makes world’s first mind controlled wheelchair

A young Indian scientist has designed the world’s first “mind control wheelchair” capable of working on a technology that collects electrical impulses generated in...

Girls outperform boys in CBSE XII

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared its Class 12 examination results on Saturday and once again girls have outperformed the boys in...

DPCC clamps down on polluting industries

Acting on stern directions from the Public Grievance Commission (PGC), the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Delhi Police and the local SDM have started...

Mexican envoy takes the auto to office, every day

Melba Pria, the Mexican ambassador to India has been using a “chauffeur-driven” auto-rickshaw as her “official vehicle” both to promote Mexico here in an...

Discoms ordered to pay interest on security deposits

Acting on the directives of the Public Grievance Commission (PGC) here, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has ordered all power distribution companies (DISCOMs)...

AAP silent on graft under Sheila Dikshit government’

The Delhi BJP has been protesting about the silence of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the alleged corruption during the Sheila Dikshit government’s...

Three ABVP activists held in Kolkata

Three ABVP activists were arrested by Kolkata police on Saturday charges of alleged molestation after clashes broke out on Jadavpur University campus in Kolkata...

Factionalism poses problems for TMC in Bengal polls

Even as the sixth and final phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal ended on Thursday, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) witnessed factionalism even...

Professor alleges illegal mining at Atma Ram

A professor from Delhi University’s Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma (ARSD) College has levelled charges against the college authorities of illegal stone mining and felling...

‘AAP is a one-man party, has no internal democracy’

Iliyas Azmi, one of the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and a two-time MP from Uttar Pradesh where he contested on...

Demand grows for a united municipality

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seem to be on the same page about undoing the then Sheila Dikshit-led...

Brahmins demand reservations

After the Patidars in Gujarat and Jats in Haryana, Brahmins have now begun demanding reservations for the caste in government institutions and jobs. In...

Draft bill for full statehood of Delhi to be made public

The Delhi government will next week make public the draft bill for full statehood of Delhi that it has prepared. Confirming this in a...

Prez hosts teachers at Rashtrapati Bhawan

As part of an “in-residence” programme at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, President Pranab Mukherjee hosted 13 “Inspired Teachers” from various Central universities across the country...

Constable writes to new Delhi CP about police’s woes

Encouraged by some bold decisions taken by new Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma on the very first day of taking charge, a Delhi Police...

Odd-even phase two gets on Delhi’s nerves

The second phase of the odd-even scheme rolled out by the Arvind Kejriwal government from 15 April is proving to be extremely unpopular with...

2,000 people made homeless by ‘TMC-backed’ goons

The forceful eviction of 383 poor families allegedly by goons of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) from a locality in Topsia here in November...

EC will act tough after poll violence in Bengal

After several incidents of violence were reported during the first three phases of Assembly elections in West Bengal, leaving one person dead and several...

Maneka plans job-related training for poor women

A unique programme to train underprivileged women from urban areas to help them find employment in the hospitality industry was launched earlier this week...

Street vendors being trained under Skill India plan

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI), has launched a programme under...

Left leaders get cold feet over kanhaiya

Left leaders have developed cold feet over utilising Kanhaiya Kumar, the 28-year-old Ph.D student and president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU),...

All charges are baseless: Saibaba

Professor G.N. Saibaba, who taught English at the Delhi University’s Ram Lal Anand College, was arrested in May 2014 by the Maharashtra police on...

Siddharth’s family demands justice

The family of 32-year-old Siddharth Sharma, who was mowed down by a speeding Mercedes near the posh Civil Lines area in North Delhi on...

Kathputli-DDA stalemate continuing since 2009

Since 2009, the stalemate between the residents of Kathputli colony and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) over redevelopment of the colony, which is near...

MRD to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti in all villages

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD), Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,...

Angry residents of Vikaspuri want area slums demolished

Angry residents of Vikaspuri, Delhi where a 40-year-old doctor was lynched to death on the night of Holi, by miscreants from the nearby slum,...

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