NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, made a visit to the Bhalswa landfill site on Saturday and announced plans to process and reduce approximately 45 lakh tonnes of waste from the site by May next year. During his interaction with reporters at the location, Kejriwal explained that once this significant volume of waste is processed, it will lead to the reclamation of "35 acres of land,"...
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NEW DELHI: The government is looking to create more dedicated parking space around Kartavya Path and the upcoming Common Central Secretariat (CCS) buildings to meet the requirement of visitors and office goers. TOI has learnt that the necessity for this was felt primarily because creating huge parking spaces in basements of upcoming CCS buildings is taking more time and impacting the timelines of these...
NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal unveiled a 15-point winter action plan on Friday and stressed the cooperation of NCR states to make the season less harsh on everyone. "Pollution knows no boundaries. The air from Haryana comes to Delhi, and Delhi's air goes to Uttar Pradesh," he said. Hotspot-specific action plans, monitoring of open-waste burning, and alternative routes on 90 roads are part of...
NEW DELHI: A 42-year-old woman and her four associates have been arrested in connection with the robbery of 17 gold biscuits in the Paschim Vihar area of west Delhi. The accused have been identified as Sonu Suri, a resident of Tagore Garden Extension, Navneet (34), Mohsin Khan (29), Dheeraj (22), and Ankit Porwal (22), all residents of Khayala.The incident occurred on September 22 when a PCR call was...
NEW DELHI: Over 20 leaders and office-bearers from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Northeast Delhi have officially joined the Congress, and more are expected to follow suit in the coming days, according to party officials. The group includes former Delhi Congress secretaries Kuldeep Bhati and Yogendra Bhati, as well as block ex-president Mahendra Kumar, all of whom left the AAP to join the...
NEW DELHI: The Chhattisgarh Police on Friday arrested two persons and recovered around 18.5 kg of gold and diamond ornaments stolen from a jewellery store in Delhi earlier this week.A joint team of anti-crime and cyber unit and civil line police station in Bilaspur district carried out the operation while it was investigating a series of thefts in Bilaspur city, Superintendent of Police (SP) Santosh...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police is hard on heels of the burglars who executed one of the biggest heists in the city making off with gold worth Rs 20 crore from a jewellery shop, an officer said on Thursday. A senior police officer said several people have been questioned in connection with the incident and the CCTV footageis being analysed to identify the accused.He said the police have got some clues. Some...
NEW DELHI: Having decked up Delhi for the G20 Summit, the city government's public works department has begun work to beautify the remaining parts of the national capital. The department has floated a tender for installing three fountains and a statue in central Delhi. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 44.95 lakh. "The fountains will be installed on Ludlow Castle Road, near the red light at...
NEW DELHI: Launching a criminal investigation into the allegations of corruption in the construction of a new residential building for chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the CBI is learned to have registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) to probe the alleged “irregularities and misconduct” by yet-to-be identified public servants of the Delhi government.The probe agency has asked PWD of the Delhi...
NEW DELHI: A 49-year-old suspended teacher who allegedly threatened a deputy director in the education department who initiated a departmental inquiry against him was arrested, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as Sunil Kumar, a resident of Najafgarh, they said.On Sunday, the complainant, deputy director in the education department, had reached the Najafgarh police...