Aiming to improve the quality of education, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has decided to sponsor training of its teachers who will get selected by reputed foreign universities Municipal Commissioner Vikas Anand said that according to this scheme, the corporation will sponsor two teachers for training in a reputed foreign university in the first […]

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The number of dengue cases in Delhi this season has crossed 5,270, the highest in the national capital in a year since 2015, according to a civic report released on Monday Nearly 2,570 fresh cases of the vector-borne disease were logged in the city in the last one week. However, no fresh fatality was reported. According […]

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Seventeen people sustained burn injuries after a domestic gas cylinder caught fire and exploded in a shanty in northwest Delhi on Sunday The incident took place in the Lal Bagh area of Azadpur and the fire department received a call about the blaze around 10 am, they said. Seventeen people were injured in the explosion, but […]

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The layer of eye-stinging smog lingering over Delhi-NCR thickened on Friday, giving an orange tint to the sun and lowering visibility to 200 metres at several places in the region reeling under hazardous pollution levels since early November Delhi has recorded severe air quality on five of the last seven days after Diwali. According to an […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday celebrated Chhath Puja at East Kidwai Nagar and Raja Bazar to offer ‘arghya‘ to Sun god and said it is not the time for politics and everyone should celebrate “Chhath Mahaparv” with happiness His reaction came after the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party […]

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought a response from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on a plea by the National Hawkers Federation challenging the Master Plan of 2021 A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the DDA on the petition which claims that the Delhi Master Plan […]

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A day after the Delhi government deployed 15 boats in River Yamuna to remove froth at Kalindi Kunj, civic agencies on Wednesday installed bamboo nets and sprinkled water to dissipate froth — a sign of the river’s hazardous water quality. Officials have admitted that the problem of frothing will continue until sewage treatment plants in […]

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City Congress leaders and workers staged a protest near the Delhi Secretariat at ITO on Tuesday demanding that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reduce value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar said Kejriwal should learn from Punjab and bring down VAT on fuel. “People are deeply troubled due to price […]

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