New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta Thursday announced an ex gratia assistance of Rs 5 lakh for Rohit Mukhiya, a Khidki Extension resident who sustained serious injuries while rescuing co-workers during the June 3 fire at a B&B in south Delhi.CM also assured that Delhi govt would bear all medical expenses for Mukhiya until his…
New Delhi: Delhi govt will provide 20% reservation to former Agniveers through direct recruitment to Group C posts across a few key departments. The reservation will cover police constables in Delhi Police, firemen in Delhi Fire Service, jail warders in the prisons department, and forest and wildlife guards in the environment, forest & wildlife department.Lieutenant…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is going to hold elections for the formation of town vending committees (TVCs) by the end of July.Officials said the proposal would first require approval of the House, following which the election schedule would be finalised and a notification would be issued. “We will start the process as…
New Delhi: Delhi is set to get two new bridges across the Yamuna as part of the first phase of the proposed Elevated Ring Road project, which has received govt approval. The initial stretch will run from Metcalfe House to the DND Flyway, near Ashram, aimed at improving connectivity between north, north-east and south-east Delhi.According…
New Delhi: A 51-year-old scrap dealer was shot at in New Delhi’s Tughlaq Road area on Thursday. The victim was identified as Baba Rafiq.According to police, a PCR call reporting the shooting was received on Thursday evening.A senior police officer clarified that the incident did not take place inside a park. Rafiq was standing near…
Vibha SharmaNew Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has said the integration of property tax with the general trade licence (GTL) will become fully operational digitally by Monday, after facing criticism over failing to do this for nearly six months.A senior official said some software modifications were pending. “It will take one to two days…
New Delhi : Five-year-old Bhavya knew hospitals better than playgrounds. Diagnosed with severe sickle cell disease in infancy, he endured repeated episodes of excruciating pain, hospital admissions and was dependent on blood transfusions.Every few months, his family would rush him to hospital as the inherited blood disorder disrupted what should have been a normal childhood.Today,…
New Delhi: Four bright pink incubators stood empty inside the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Hira’s Multispeciality Hospital on Thursday morning, a day after the facility’s 47-year-old managing doctor and owner, Dr Viveki Kapoor, was arrested in connection with an alleged child trafficking racket.The four-storey hospital, tucked away in a narrow lane of northwest…
NEW DELHI: A delegation of citizen-led movement “Awara Nahi Humara Hai” recently met the venerable monks of the “Walk for Peace” and the dog Aloka during their visit to India and presented them a “Letter of Compassion and Coexistence” on behalf of those who cared about the future of street dogs.The delegation sought the blessings…
New Delhi: More than half of the millennials aged between 30 and 44 years are overweight, and nearly one in two persons aged 45 years and above has high blood pressure, a metabolic wellness study, conducted across Delhi-NCR on 4,000 people, has found.The study screened the 4,000 people on 20 metabolic health parameters. The findings…
