Delhi

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A huge right-wing rally to demand the fast-tracking of the Ram temple at Ayodhya is being held at Delhi’s Ramlila grounds today. The attending groups, which include the BJP’s ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, want the government to pass an ordinance or executive order to bypass the legal process in the coming session of parliament. The ...

A class 7 student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her house in west Delhi’s Inderpuri area, police said Thursday. Her mother suspects that the girl might have taken the extreme step because she was scolded by a school teacher. However, the police said an investigation was underway for ascertaining the reason. The girl committed suicide at her house ...

It was the season’s coldest day in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 8.4 degrees Celsius Wednesday, a notch below the season’s average. Delhiites woke up to a chill in the air as mercury dipped a bit further from its reading on Tuesday. However, there was high level of humidity in the morning, recorded at 95 per ...

Delhi’s air quality was in the ‘very poor’ category Friday due to unfavourable meteorological conditions that slowed dispersion of pollutants, with forecast of “significant deterioration” in pollution levels over the weekend. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, the overall air quality index (AQI) of Delhi was 358. An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand has been awarded among the best states at the 38th India International Trade Fair, Pragati Maidan New Delhi. The theme of this year’s event was the rural MSME based on which the products were displayed at the fair. In this event, the Kedarnath reconstruction works were displayed prominently at the Pavilion of Uttarakhand. Apart from this, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A man threw chilli powder at Arvind Kejriwal outside his office in the Delhi Secretariat on Tuesday, an attack the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) described as “politically motivated” while asserting that the BJP is hatching a conspiracy in collusion with Delhi Police to attack the chief minister. Even as the man behind the attack – Anil Kumar ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Establishment of the Delhi School of Public Health and the Delhi School of Public Policy, a DU campus in Najafgarh and a hostel for foreign students are among a slew of initiatives to be undertaken by the Delhi University, vice-chancellor Yogesh Tyagi announced at the 95th convocation on Monday. This year, the university awarded degrees to more ...

Private trains can run on the track of Delhi Metro. The central government is working on this plan to rescue Metro from the financial crisis. A new formula has been made under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. Under this, it can be given to the private company to hire and run the Metro coach. Officials believe that without the ...

A 30-year-old man was booked for allegedly bursting firecrackers in east Delhi despite a Supreme Court ban on selling and burning of old stock, the first such case to be registered since the restrictions were enforced. Police were informed on November 1 by a neighbour of accused Damandeep that the latter was bursting old firecrackers, they added. The neighbour told ...

Workers — skilled, unskilled and semi-skilled — in the city will get raised wages from this month under the Delhi government’s minimum wages rules notified in March this year, AAP minister Gopal Rai said Thursday. Talking to reporters here, the Delhi labour minister said unskilled worker will get a total of Rs 14,000 this month, which includes three months of ...