New mohalla clinic opens at Delhi’s Tis Hazari court

Seeking to boost the primary healthcare system in Delhi, the city government on Friday opened a new mohalla clinic at Tis Hazari court, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said. The total number of mohalla clinics in the city now stands at 504, a senior official said. A mohalla clinic is a neighbourhood facility for providing free […]

Fresh bids invited by PWD to install 500 high-mast tricolours across Delhi

Delhi’s Public Works Department (PWD) will install 500 high-mast tricolours across the national capital by the end of December this year, and it has invited fresh bids to execute the project, officials familiar with the matter said on Friday. According to PWD officials, earlier the height of high-mast flags was set at 35 metres but […]

Delhi zoo lets bear out in the open, after ages

An ageing Himalayan bear in the zoo was let out after three years in confinement    After over three years of being left inside a cage, an ageing Himalayan black bear in the Delhi Zoo could be out in the sun to a special enclosure made for it, called a kraal. The 35-year-old female bear […]

Fleeing the ‘forever war’ Afghans seek shelter in the Capital 

With the Taliban gaining ground in their country, Afghan refugees in Delhi have more than just the pandemic to deal with — they want India to play a greater role in establishing peace in the region    Over the last two decades, India has seen a significant rise in the number of refugees coming in […]

Pregnant, lactating women can get vaccine shot at their check-up facilities

Seeking to enhance Covid-19 vaccination coverage of pregnant and lactating women, the Delhi government on Monday issued an order that they can get jabs at health facility sites where they report for their regular check-up on designated days of the week The vaccination exercise against Covid-19 had began from January 16 this year. However, pregnant […]

Events of the week

Artistic revolutions What: A group show of sculptures with works by Anita Dube, Vibha Galhotra, Bijoy Jain, Jitish Kallat, Suhasini Kejriwal, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Benitha Perciyal, M. Pravat, Ayesha Singh, L.N. Tallur, Thukral & Tagra, and Asim Waqif are on view at Nature Morte. Titled ‘Markers of Time and Space’ some of the works in the […]

Malls reopen in Delhi; post-lockdown blues persist

After the capital city saw a deadly bout of Covid-19 cases, malls reopened. But the struggle to financially get back at its feet is still far from over    Major malls in Delhi NCR are facing the post-lockdown blues, where business is still restricted and are allowed to open only until 8 pm. Centres like […]

Missing link on Delhi Metro”s Pink Line plugged; becomes network”s longest corridor

In a major boost for Delhi Metro, a small segment of its Pink Line at Trilokpuri, which had proved a bottleneck for the DMRC authorities for a long time, was inaugurated on Friday, making it the longest operational corridor of the network With this, the 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor or the Pink Line, which […]