Brazil's decorated mayor stresses people's inputs

NEW DELHI: At a time when Delhi is preparing for its first brush with participatory governance with 11 assembly constituencies shortlisted for a pilot by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Mayor Marcio Araujo de Lacerda has come to town with the smart story...

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Seamless, sustainable and safe

Agreenfield project can show case an ideal smart city and its objectives in a way that an existing thriving city can never do. The case study can, however, be instructive for such a city, like Delhi, when it sets out to become smart. Chhattisgarh's Naya...

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Smart mobility can work only if people comfortable

NEW DELHI: Smart cities are not just about getting smart. It's also about listening to the needs of the people. That's the lesson that panelists of the smart mobility session at ConnectKaro, a meet on smart cities for sustainable development, shared...

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'Pedestrian, cycling facilities cheaper than roads'

Air pollution in Delhi can be a catalyst for making crucial changes in our mobility system to incorporate infrastructure and space for pedestrians and cyclists, says urban planner Jeff Olson. Co-founder of Alta Bicycle Share, Olson, who has been a part...

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Devansh Mehta files case against Stephen's principal

NEW DELHI: The suspended editor of a student e-zine banned by St Stephen's Principal Valson Thampu today moved the Delhi High Court seeking a stay on the action against him taken by the college on disciplinary grounds.In a writ petition filed before...

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Co-founder of St Stephen’s e-zine stripped of award

NEW DELHI: The co-founder of St Stephen's Weekly, Devansh Mehta, will not get the Rai Saheb Banarsi Das Memorial Prize after all. A third-year philosophy student, Mehta was selected by the teachers of his department and his name was announced on April...

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Co-founder of Stephen’s e-zine stripped of award

NEW DELHI: The co-founder of St Stephen's Weekly, Devansh Mehta, will not get the Rai Saheb Banarsi Das Memorial Prize after all.A third-year philosophy student, Mehta was selected by the teachers of his department and his name was announced on April...

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Corporate espionage case: Delhi Police may slap Official Secrets Act against suspects

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police crime branch has found that at least eight of the documents recovered from the suspects in the espionage case are "classified". This paves the way for slapping of the Official Secrets Act (OSA).The documents pertain to the ministry...

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Principal, teacher dismissed

NEW DELHI: The principal of Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya School on President's estate has been suspended and a guest teacher dismissed after education minister Manish Sisodia discovered a number of irregularities on a surprise visit on Wednesday.The anti...

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Which bathroom to use? 'Third gender' still face such issues

NEW DELHI: A year after the Supreme Court's landmark judgement granting them the right to self-identify their gender, the transgender community says much still needs to be done for 'social recognition.'"A year has passed but the plight of our community...

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Crackdown on ration shops for diverting stock

NEW DELHI: Delhi government has launched a crackdown on ration shops siphoning off supplies meant for registered consumers under the public distribution system. In a first, action is being taken on "SMS alerts" from consumers who failed to get their...

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Regularize illegal colonies or prepare for protests: Congress

NEW DELHI: A day after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal promised to regularize unauthorized colonies, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Maken accused him of misleading people, and challenged him to an open debate.Maken said Congress would...

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‘Uncle’ takes boy fishing, sodomizes him

NEW DELHI: A 40-year-old man was arrested for sodomizing a 10-year-old boy in southwest Delhi's Raj Nagar area on Sunday. He also tried to kill the child but he was rescued.The accused was identified as Satish and he lived in the same area as the child....

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Patients to be issued I-card for availing rail concession

NEW DELHI: With cases of misuse of concession tickets coming to the fore, Railways have decided to undertake a slew of measures including issuing an I-card to patients eligible for benefit to curb revenue leakage.There are cases of misuse of concession...

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Vacant SC/ST posts to be filled soon: Kejriwal

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced to fill vacant posts reserved for SC/ST category in the government, while paying tribute to B R Ambedkar on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary.Speaking on the occasion in the Delhi assembly,...

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Govt comes out with three-month action plan to curb air pollution in the NCR

NEW DELHI: All government agencies of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Monday came out with their joint three-month action plan to check air pollution in the national capital region.The action plan include strict action against polluting...

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NGT stays ban on 10-year-old diesel vehicles for 2 weeks

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has stayed for 2 weeks its order to impound diesel vehicles more than 10 years old plying in the national capital.The tribunal has sought suggestions from Delhi government on better implementation of its order by...

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Man freed in rape case as wife turns hostile

NEW DELHI: A man, accused of raping and threatening a woman, has been acquitted by a court on the grounds that she was happily married to him and had lodged a false case under pressure from her parents.Additional sessions judge Virender Bhatt absolved...

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NGT stays ban on 10-year-old diesel vehicles plying in national capital for 2 weeks

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has stayed for 2 weeks its order to impound diesel vehicles more than 10 years old plying in the national capital.The tribunal has sought suggestions from Delhi government on better implementation of its order by...

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Govt school teachers to attend vipassana course

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has decided to send its school teachers for a 10-day residential vipassana course. It will be voluntary to begin with -- those interested can apply -- and will be conducted by an organisation in Sohna, Haryana. The 10...

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Minor fire at AIIMS Delhi

NEW DELHI: A minor fire broke out on the sixth floor of the All India Institute of medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Sunday morning. Officials said that the fire was caused out a short circuit in an electrical unit on located at the floor.The incident was...

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NGT order: SHOs asked to deploy adequate personnel

NEW DELHI: In order to effectively implement the National Green Tribunal order banning plying of more than 10 year old diesel vehicles, the city government has asked the Delhi Police to direct all SHOs to deploy adequate personnel at entry points to...

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Defending Love with 'band, raaja, baarat'

Reacting to the Hindu Mahasabha's threat to marry off couples on V-Day, marching protesters struggled with cops, and after being detained, 'married' each other with fanfare at the thana!It's been like the Tom And Jerry show, with the police trying to...

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Truckers to go on strike from Tuesday against NGT order

NEW DELHI: Truckers associations have threatened to stop moving goods in and out of the national capital from Tuesday against the National Green Tribunal's order banning diesel vehicles of more than 10 years age from plying in the city.Truckers, who...

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Delhi traffic police to hold a summer camp to stop underage kids from driving

Underage driving has been a headache for the Delhi Traffic Police for quite some time. In a drive conducted on April 8, 209 vehicle owners were prosecuted for lending their vehicles to minors without valid licenses. Now, to try to solve the problem,...

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Four arrested for extortion bid on bizman

NEW DELHI: A south Delhi businessman's neighbour, who hatched a conspiracy to extort money from him, has been arrested along with three accomplices. The four have been identified as Satish (37), Amit Kumar (30), Sunil Kumar (30) and a woman working at...

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Register at Jamia from Monday

NEW DELHI: The Academic Council of Jamia Millia Islamia in its meeting on Friday approved implementation of the choice-based credit system, to be introduced from the 2015-16 academic session. The council also approved the admission policy for this year....

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Another woman raped in Delhi taxi, driver arrested

NEW DELHI: Barely four months after the Uber rape, a 32-year-old woman was beaten up and sexually assaulted by a cabbie inside a blackand-yellow taxi in Dwarka after she had hailed the cab on a shared basis from a Metro station on Thursday night.The...

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Kejriwal announces compensation for farmers

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced a compensation of Rs 20,000 for per acre of damaged crops to farmers of the national capital and said his government will fulfill all the promises made by AAP in the run up to Delhi...

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Road rage death: Harsh Vardhan seeks action against 2 Delhi cops

NEW DELHI: Union science and technology minister Harsh Vardhan has shot off a letter to the Delhi Police commissioner alleging that two policemen stood as "mute spectators" while a man was allegedly beaten to death in a case of road rage in central Delhi's...

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Taxi driver arrested for sexually assaulting woman in Delhi

NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a taxi driver while she was on her way back to home in south-west Delhi's Madhu Vihar area on Thursday night. The taxi driver was nabbed when the woman raised an alarm an alerted a passerby near...

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Delhi Police recovers rifles from a plot belonging to ex-MLA Shokeen

NEW DELHI: Delhi police special cell has recovered an AK 47 assault rifle and a self loading rifle from a plot purportedly belonging to ex-MLA Rambir Shokeen who contested assembly elections on Congress ticket.Special CP SN Shrivastava confirmed the...

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Court refuses parole extension to Vikas Yadav

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by Vikas Yadav, a convict in the Nitish Katara murder case seeking extension of the parole granted to him.Justice A K Pathak refused to extend the parole of Yadav, who is serving a 30-year...

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Delhi govt to invite suggestions for participatory budget: AAP

NEW DELHI: In a bid to prepare a participatory budget, Delhi government will be inviting suggestions from public through mohalla sabhas."The Delhi government will be issuing advertisements inviting suggestions from the public for preparing a participatory...

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Another woman raped in Delhi taxi, driver arrested

NEW DELHI: A 32-year-old working woman who hired a cab from a Delhi Metro station was raped at a secluded spot by the driver, who was arrested after a brief chase, police said on Friday.The shocking crime — the second such incident in four months — took...

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Two gangs clash in Tihar, one inmate dead

NEW DELHI: There was mayhem in Tihar on Wednesday night when two gangs clashed inside jail number 1 leading to the death of an inmate.According to police, all the inmates were convicts. The incident was reported around 7pm.The deceased inmate has been...

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Delhi road rage death: BJP protests outside Kejriwal's residence

NEW DELHI: The BJP workers clashed with police on Thursday as they staged protest outside Arvind Kejriwal's residence over the case of Turkman Gate road-rage death.BJP chief Satish Upadhyay alleged that the accused in the case were known to an AAP minister.BJP,...

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BS-IV norms being violated for years now, says IFTRT

NEW DELHI: The Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT) has pointed out that a gazette notification of 2012 by the ministry of road transport and highways made it mandatory for any vehicle coming into Delhi NCR to follow BS-IV emission...

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Day after green tribunal order, cops seize 96 vehicles

NEW DELHI: A day after the National Green Tribunal banned diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in Delhi and NCR, the Delhi government was still in the process of trying to access the order. Meanwhile, the Delhi...

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Uber launches autorickshaw service in Delhi

NEW DELHI: US-based taxi-hailing app Uber on Thursday launched an aggregator service which will help commuters book autorickshaws for travelling in the national capital."Autos are the most ubiquitous transport in almost any city and Indians are used...

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Delhi road rage death: Main accused arrested

NEW DELHI: The main accused in the Delhi road rage case Aminuddin alias Amin Pahalwan (46) has been arrested by police.Aminuddin has 17 criminal cases against him and is a history-sheeter, the cops said.A bike-borne man was beaten to death by the occupants...

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NHRC rescues 101 bonded labourers from Madhubani in Bihar

NEW DELHI: With National Human Rights Commission's intervention, 101 labourers from 38 families, working in Benipatti sub division of Bihar's Madhubani district as bonded labour since generations, have been rescued and rehabilitated. Since generations,...

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CIC penalizes Delhi official for not giving pension info to 70-yr-old

NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has slapped a penalty of Rs 25,000 on a Delhi government official for not giving information related to the pension status of a 70-year old woman. The commission has also asked for compensation of Rs...

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Delhi road-rage death: AAP threatens legal action against BJP, hits out at police

NEW DELHI: Slamming BJP for indulging in "politics over death", AAP on Wednesday threatened to take legal action against the party after it accused a Delhi minister of patronizing the accused in Turkman Gate road-rage incident. AAP leader Kumar Vishwas...

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Congress inducts 10 young & new faces to take on AAP govt

NEW DELHI: Ten young faces, having "rich professional" background and with an average age of 29, are all set to lead the Congress in its attempts to revive its fortunes in the national capital following a complete wipe out in the last assembly elections.The...

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Delhi govt orders Siti Cable Network to deposit Rs 33.12 crore

NEW DELHI: Delhi government has directed Siti Cable Network Ltd to deposit Rs 33.12 crore as it's outstanding entertainment tax for two years, along with interest and penalty within 15 days.Sources said that the company had been indulging in major entertainment...

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Six robbers arrested in Delhi

NEW DELHI: Six men, wanted in various cases of robbery and murder in NCR, have been arrested by the special cell. They were also involved in an attempt to murder an army officer, whom they stabbed before robbing him of his pistol.The accused have been...

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Six robbers arrested

NEW DELHI: Six men, wanted in various cases of robbery and murder in NCR, have been arrested by the special cell. They were also involved in an attempt to murder an army officer, whom they stabbed before robbing him of his pistol.The accused have been...

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Delhi's most wanted Neeraj Bawana arrested

NEW DELHI: Delhi's most wanted gangster Neeraj Bawana has been arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police.He is considered to be the most dreaded extortionist in the past decade. He did not even spare the legislators and demanded protection money from...

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Delhi welcomes its homecoming princess

NEW DELHI: When you are declared the most beautiful woman in the country and return home with a glittering crown on your head, you have to prepare yourself for a lavish welcome. And fbb Femina Miss India World 2015 Aditi Arya's homecoming on Monday was...

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Protesters cause massive traffic jam in Delhi following road-rage killing

NEW DELHI: A massive traffic jam choked parts of central Delhi on Monday as people protested against the killing of a man on Sunday night. The stretch between Turkman Gate and Delhi Gate was blocked.Traffic came to a halt at ITO, Barakhamba Road, Ranjeet...

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Man beaten to death in road rage in central Delhi, mob sets vehicles ablaze

NEW DELHI: In an apparent incident of road rage, a bike-borne man was beaten to death by the occupants of an i-20 car after their vehicles collided in Turkman Road area of central Delhi on early Monday.The deceased has been identified as Shehnawaj. He...

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