Days after a young girl was abducted and raped outside Sahara Mall on Gurgaon's MG Road, Rediff.com's Priyanka finds that little or nothing has changed along the darkly-lit stretch.
Gadkari is credited with the construction of more than 90,000 km of national highways and 30,000 km of new roads in the country in the last 10 years.
The 980 MW (2x490 MW) Stage-II of the Dadri power project would supply electricity for the Commonwealth Games, next month.
As its reach now extends from north Delhi to the satellite city Gurgaon, Delhi Metro's ridership is increasing day-by-day with over 14 lakh people taking a ride on the new age transport system on Monday alone.
Satyam Computer Services on Friday said it would invest $75 million in 2006-07 to augment its infrastructure and was looking at a location in the National Capital Region to set up a new development centre.\n\n
India's representation in the top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing cities has grown to four, from last year's three, with the addition of Jaipur to the list at number 31. The other Indian cities in the list include Kolkata at number six, Chandigarh at 12 and Coimbatore at 17, says the study.
India's medal prospects took a hit with the exclusion of hockey, shooting, cricket, badminton and wrestling from the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
43 McDonald's outlets in New Delhi-National Capital Region were forced to down shutters following lapse of their eating-out or health licences in June.
Speculation high because of low number of end-users, says study.
A complete ban on firecrackers in Delhi until January 1, the government's refusal to grant licences for sales in Karnataka, and restrictions in the Noida region are adversely affecting the business of manufacturers in Tamil Nadu's Sivakasi, which produces over 90 per cent of India's fireworks. According to industry players, demand has decreased by 20 per cent compared to last year. Moreover, the ban on the use of barium nitrate and the manufacturing and sale of joint fireworks is also impacting demand.
Onions, too, are expensive at Rs 60-70 per kg, while other major green vegetables are ruling between Rs 35 and Rs 90 per kg.
Developers announce new projects, vacant land being unlocked
The Air India Group has started vacating its offices, which are currently being operated from government-owned properties, from this month, as part of its strategy to consolidate workspaces across the country. The loss-making Air India and its international budget arm Air India Express were taken over by the Tata Group on January 27 this year, after successfully winning the bid for the airline on October 8, last year. Besides these two airlines, Tata Group also holds a majority 51 per cent stake in Vistara, its joint venture airline with Singapore Airlines (SIA), and a 83.67 per cent stake in budget carrier, AirAsia India.
Mother Dairy's retail model helps farmers but is under pressure from chains.
Oberoi Hotels on Tuesday inaugurated its first luxury hotel there, right next to the Trident property, under a management contract with Orbit Resorts.
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) also issued guidelines for implementation of the ban on firecrackers, which included directions to the Delhi Police to register a first information report against the violators of the ban.
As Prabhakaran was leaving his house, Rajiv Gandhi called his son Rahul and asked him to fetch his (Gandhi's) bulletproof jacket. He put the jacket on Prabhakaran's back and remarked with his usual charming smile: "Take care of yourself."
Voters, it is said, get the government they deserve. We will soon see what voters in Maharashtra choose. Till then, a sense of helplessness and scepticism hangs in the air, notes Ramesh Menon.
Locals have witnessed real estate prices skyrocket from a historic low of Rs 6,000 per square yard (in 2020) during Jagan Mohan Reddy's regime to around Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 per square yard after elections.
Ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the shortage of hotel rooms in the national capital region, Noida is clearly beating Delhi in wooing the country's leading hotel chains by offering land at rock bottom industrial rates.
A high-intensity earthquake hit the Central Asian country of Tajikistan on Monday, tremors of which were felt in parts of north India, including Delhi and Kashmir.
Through Micro Lost Mobile Tracking System, Micro Technologies would provide security to the mobile handsets of Airtel subscribers, the firm informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. The application would have a software in the GSM enabled mobile handsets that would inform the user about the new mobile number, which replaced the original number, through an e-mail, Micro Technologies said.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer organisations that spearheaded the 2021 protest, adopted the resolution to "intensify the fight against the policies of the Union government to save farming, food security, land and livelihoods of the people".
A recent report by Citi had pegged the total amount stuck in stalled projects across seven major Indian cities (Bengaluru, Mumbai Metropolitan region, National Capital Region, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune) at Rs 80,000 crore.
Rise in mercury level with every passing day coupled with long power cuts, the demand for inverters and generators is likely to see 20-25 per cent increase in the National Capital Region, Assocham said on Tuesday.
In the wake of the rape-cum-murder of a call centre employee in Bangalore, the National Commission for Women will on Tuesday hold a meeting with industry representatives to review the safety of women employees in the BPO sector.
Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday.
As Finer wrapped up his high-profile visit to India, the White House said Finer 'acknowledged' India's establishment of a committee of enquiry to investigate the 'lethal plotting' and underlined the need for holding accountable those responsible.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games tickets will be finally available in retail outlets across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) from Wednesday.
Very few countries in the world, like the US, China, Taiwan and the United Kingdom, have police academies and government feels that the University will certainly bring in professionalism in the force.
The precious metal, which has been on an upward swing since last two weeks, shot up by Rs 240 to Rs 31,850 per 10 grams in the national capital region, surpassing previous record of Rs 31,725 set on September 1.
One can no longer get these facilities at high-end hospitals in Delhi, National Capital Region and in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai.
Outlining the contours of its ambitious plan to curb pollution through odd-even number plate formula, Delhi government on Sunday said odd-numbered cars will be allowed to ply on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while even-numbered vehicles will run on the other days -- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Hearing the Centre versus the Delhi government over the issue of demarcation of power, a constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said an elected government needs to have control over the administration.
An anonymous caller threatening to blow up two Metro stations, including at the busy Rajiv Chowk in the heart of Delhi, on Sunday triggered a scare in the National Capital Region, prompting authorities to step up security at these installations.
Banerjee also appealed to the people of West Bengal not to get provoked over matters concerning the current situation in Bangladesh.
Green think tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said the ongoing smog episode is a public health emergency.
Owning property in Gurgaon is set to become more expensive with the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation planning to impose property tax.
In his address at a ministerial meeting of the SCO in Moscow in the Russian capital, Singh also referred to the Second World War and said its memories teach the globe the 'follies of aggression' of one state upon another that brings 'destruction' to all.
