Heavy rains in the city on Tuesday morning led to waterlogging on several road stretches including near the AIIMS flyover in south Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) officials said that only minor waterlogging complaints have been reported so far and efforts are being taken to remove water from such stretches. Our field staff is on the […]

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Delhiites woke up to a hot morning on Thursday with the minimum temperature settling at 31.7 degrees celsius, four notches above normal, the India Meteorological Department said. The maximum temperature in the city is likely to settle around 42 degrees Celsius, it said. The relative humidity at 8.30 am was recorded at 43 per cent. […]

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With the monsoon keeping away from Delhi and nearby areas, another hot day is likely to trouble residents in the national capital on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. A heat wave is predicted during the day as the maximum temperature is likely to settle around 41 degrees Celsius, Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of […]

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Central Delhi has recorded just 8.5 mm rainfall this monsoon season so far and is the second-most rain-deficient district in the country, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD) data. June 1 to September 30 is officially considered the monsoon season in India. Central Delhi has received only 8.5 mm rainfall against the normal of 53.3 […]

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Delhi is unlikely to receive monsoonal showers till the end of June and the maximum temperature in the city is predicted to hover around 40 degrees Celsius till then, according to the India Meteorological Department. On Wednesday morning, the national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the […]

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The spread of infections in monsoons brings a large number of animals to animal welfare centres in Delhi that are finding it increasingly difficult to handle the situation “An animal shelter is a very heartbreaking place,” said Ambika Shukla, Director of the Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre (SGACC), to someone over the phone. We know […]

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I am a third generation resident of Def Colony. I have grown up here. I still go cycling in the streets. What concerns me is the detoriating civic amenities around. We pay one of the highest civic taxes as a colony of B-zone, but get a miniscule attention of the civic authorities –be it MCD, […]

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With the onset of monsoon, various problems like water logging, spread of diseases etc. creep in. RWA president of Def Colony talks about them Defence Colony is full of greenery, with lots of trees. We have trees all along the drains of our area. The aim was to keep the colony green, but too much […]

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