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Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that 70 large MRS machines | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Despite winter approaching and air pollution expected to worsen, the Delhi government has missed a crucial July deadline to deploy a new fleet of 140 Mechanical Road Sweepers (MRS) to curb dust. None of the new MRS machines have…
Rescue personnel conduct a rescue operation on the second day after a 50-year-old five-storey building housing a boys’ hostel collapsed in a congested bylane in Satya Niketan near Delhi University’s south campus. September 7, 2026 | Photo Credit: PTI With suitcases rolling behind them and bags slung over their shoulders, students streamed out of the…
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Safai Karamchari Union on Sunday said it will keep the small garbage collection vehicles, called auto-tippers, off the roads from Monday following the killing of a sanitation worker, identified as Anil Kumar, in east Delhi’s Kalyanpuri. The union leaders said they will meet MCD Commissioner Sanjeev Khirwar on Monday…
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Delhi AAP president Saurabh Bharadwaj announced the immediate suspension of Nirmala Devi (Sharma) and Krishna Devi Raghav from the West Zone, and Sultana Abad from the City SP Zone. | Photo Credit: ANI The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday suspended three Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) councillors, alleging they cross-voted during the ward committee elections held a…
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Nearly a dozen foreign nationals were among those killed in the blaze that ripped through the bed-and-breakfast facility in south Delhi on Wednesday morning. | Photo Credit: ANI The death toll in the June 3 Malviya Nagar blaze rose to 22 after another foreign national succumbed to injuries on Saturday, the Delhi police said on…
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Aam Aadmi Party’s Mahesh Khinchi — councillor from Karol Bagh’s Dev Nagar ward — will be the next Mayor of Delhi, having won the election by a wafer-thin margin. Mr Khinchi, Delhi’s first Dalit Mayor, got 133 votes and the BJP’s Kishan Pal 130 votes in the election held this evening after much chaos and…
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New Delhi: The latest flashpoint between Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the Lieutenant Governor came to an abrupt halt late on Thursday evening as the election of a single Standing Committee member of the civic body, which VK Saxena was insisting on being held by 10 pm, was called off. After an all-evening drama…
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New Delhi: A councillor of Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that he was kidnapped today by a group of BJP leaders. Ramchandra is one of the councillors who left AAP and joined the BJP last Sunday and four days later, traced his steps back. After hours of hue and cry, the councillor showed…
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New Delhi: The Delhi government has “come to a standstill” after the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the High Court said today while hearing a petition on the state of education in schools run by the city civic body. A Chief Minster’s post in a buzzing capital like Delhi is not ceremonial and it…
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Mr Wong posted picture of signage on X The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Sunday found itself in a bit of a soup after Singapore’s High Commissioner to India, Simon Wong, highlighted a significant spelling error in the name of his country on a signboard installed near the high commission. Mr Wong, who discovered…