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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta takes part in Yamuna Ghat cleanliness drive, in New Delhi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday said the government’s administrative functioning has seen a “visible transformation” since the launch of the eOffice system on July 1 last year, with over 75% of the departments…
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The university has around 71,600 UG seats on offer across 73 programmes. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Delhi University (DU) received 41,473 registrations for undergraduate (UG) courses within a day of the first phase of the admission process opening, officials said on Sunday. Currently, the first phase of the admission process, which comprises the registration…
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Delhi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday questioned the appointment of Vatsala Agarwal as the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) in 2025, following her arrest in an alleged multi-crore health procurement scam. The Delhi government’s Anti-Corruption Branch arrested Ms. Agarwal on Saturday over the alleged procurement scam involving medicines, surgical items…
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Delhi Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood inspecting the Ghazipur landfill on Friday. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood on Friday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to increase biomining capacity at the Ghazipur landfill from 7,000 metric tons per day (TPD) to 12,000 TPD by July 31 to meet…
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The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Friday demanded that the National Testing Agency (NTA) release the attendance figures of candidates who appeared for the NEET-UG re-examination held on June 21. The outfit said the NTA has so far only stated that “more than 20 lakh aspirants” appeared for the test and noted that around…
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The residents of Bhai Ram Camp are among the hundreds of families facing eviction. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement For residents living in three slum clusters – Bhai Ram Camp, DID Camp and Masjid Camp – near the Prime Minister’s residence on Lok Kalyan Marg, the prospect of moving to Savda Ghevra, nearly 45 km…
Students being frisked outside an examination centre in New Delhi on Sunday.R.V. Moort | Photo Credit: R.V. MOORTHY Thousands of students in Delhi on Sunday appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) re-examination held under heightened security after the original test was cancelled over allegations of a question paper leak. More than 22…
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Last August, head constable Arvind Kasana’s day began with an unusual call: arrange a 15-foot pole and a rope. “A man is stuck in a daldal (swamp), we need to rescue him quickly,” his senior, Assistant Sub-Inspector Satyendra Kumar of the Gazipur police station, told him. Mr. Kasana procured the items from a nearby colony…
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Taranjit Singh Sandhu directed all departments concerned to complete procedural formalities and make the necessary changes | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Thursday instructed all departments to implement a 20% reservation for former Agniveers in direct recruitment to vacant Group C posts and set June 30 as a deadline for completing…
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Doctor Manish Gupta confessed to attacking the victim with a bat and later stabbing her with a knife. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement A well-known dermatologist was arrested on Thursday for bludgeoning and stabbing to death his 58-year-old domestic help at his Mount Kailash home in south-east Delhi, the police said. The 56-year-old doctor, identified…
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