Bangalore, India’s IT capital, is the best city for bachelors, while Ahmedabad in Gujarat was ranked at the bottom, according to a ‘liveability’ survey conducted among residents of housing societies and gated communities by MyGate app. In fact, Bangalore topped in six out of the ten parameters on which the app users were asked to […]
Lakhs of COVID-19 frontline staff may have been caught on Delhi Police’s traffic violator’s database during the nationwide lock-down from late March to May. According to the Union Home Ministry, Delhi Traffic Police issued around 14.5 lakh (1.45 million) electronic traffic tickets between March 25 to May 31 via its system of automatic road cameras […]
A total of 58 lakh people are likely to have been already infected by Coronavirus by the first week of this month, nearly 41 times higher than the official figure of 1.4 lakh at the time, according to the latest COVID-19 sero-survey in the capital city. The estimate for Delhi is also twice as high […]
Delhi Government has promised to increase the number of COVID-19 tests to around 18,000 per day from the current level of around 5,000 per day at the all-party meeting held under the leadership of central home minister Amit Shah. Amit Shah was forced to call the all party meet after the healthcare situation in Delhi […]
India’s daily COVID-19 additions crossed the 11,000 mark on Wednesday, even as daily deaths set a new record at 357. The total detected cases of Coronavirus 2019 in India has now risen to 2.87 lakh, up by 11,156 in 24 hours, while the number of deaths has now reached 8,107. The above numbers, taken from […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the state still has 4,200 free COVID-19 beds, but admitted that dozens of people have faced difficulty in getting access to these beds in the last few days. “I have seen that there are people who are coming on TV channels and saying that we could not find a […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he has been forced to reserve COVID-19 beds in all private and Delhi government hospitals in the city exclusively for the use of Delhi-based patients. This, he said, followed the deliberations and recommendations of a committee set up to look into the matter. The decision comes a day before […]
Five states in India have so far ‘flattened’ the Coronavirus curve in India, while the situation in nine states continues to be cause for concern. In all, four states are seeing strong daily increases in COVID-19 numbers. These are Maharashtra and Gujarat — the most worrisome — as well as Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (see […]
With an addition of 127 cases so far today, the western Indian state of Gujarat has dislodged the national capital Delhi as the state with the second highest number of Coronavirus 2019 cases in India. The state, which also crossed the 2,000 patient milestone today, also has the highest death rate — along with Madhya […]
Maharashtra has emerged as the lead state in India as far as Coronavirus infections are concerned, going by an analysis of the details of state-wise COVID-19 cases in India (see table). While the numbers are changing every hour, as of April 3 Friday, Maharashtra continued to remain on the top with 423 cases and 21 […]
Jharkhand, the state that was carved out of the tribal-dominated areas of Bihar in 2000, leads the country with highest rate of crime for the year 2018, while Chhattisgarh, which was also formed at the same time from the tribal belt of Madhya Pradesh, has the highest incidence of rape. According to the National Crime […]
Delhi Police Commissioner designate SN Shrivastava today asked the public and the media to provide any video footage that can help identify the rioters, and promised that those who are identified as have participated in the riots will be brought before the law. “It is our endeavor that anyone who is a culprit or has […]
The first exit poll on the Delhi Assembly elections has called it a win for the Aam Aadmi Party with 44 out of 70 seats. The BJP will win all the remaining 26 seats, the poll said. AAP BJP CONG TIMES NOW 44 26 0 REPUBLIC 55 15 0 INDIA NEWS NATION 55 14 1 […]
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party is all set to sweep the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, said the first opinion poll to be conducted ahead of the next month’s elections. The poll was commissioned by ABP News and conducted by Centre for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research (C-Voter), and indicated hardly any loss of […]
PVR Cinemas, India’s largest cinema chain by far, has opened a mega, 12-screen luxury multiplex at Vegas Mall, Dwarka, Delhi. The property, termed as a company ‘flagship’, will take the total screens in Delhi to 62 from 50 and the total number of locations to 16. The Vegas Mall PVR contains one IMAX screen, one […]
The Uttar Pradesh government has awarded compensation of Rs 951.44 cr for the acquisition of 1,238 hectares required for the construction of the new NOIDA airport at Jewar on the outskirts of Delhi, Union Civil Aviation Ministry said. The land for which compensation has been declared comes to 99.8% of the private land that has […]
The Central government can no longer find two centrally protected monuments in Delhi, junior tourism minister Prahland Singh Patel said in parliament today. There are 174 monuments/sites that enjoy protection from the central government in Delhi. These have been declared as monument of national importance in the Delhi under Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and […]
A study by the Central Ground Water Board has revealed that India’s Ganga-Yamuna plain is rapidly running out of ground water. Despite isolated cases like that of Chennai and Bangalore, the study also revealed that other areas of the country, including the east and the south, are better placed as far as ground water depletion […]
India’s most aggressive low-cost carrier, SpiceJet, announced 28 new flights connecting Mumbai and Delhi with other cities on its domestic network, five days after it added 24 new flights connecting Mumbai and Delhi with other cities. SpiceJet also announced slew of new non-stop international flights from Mumbai to a host of international destinations including Hong […]
The Public Works Department will set up a network of closed circuit cameras in Delhi by September. The contract for the project has been awarded to Bharat Electronics Ltd or BEL, which has in turn contracted Mumbai-based Aurionpro Solutions Ltd for the installation and maintenance of the surveillance system. “Aurionpro shall supply and install cameras […]
