Thirteen cities of the country had an average Air Quality Index above 400, which falls in "severe" category, with seven of them in Uttar Pradesh, five in Haryana and one in Bihar, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.
Modi government plans to set up a committee of five or six chief ministers to suggest ways to promote digitisation.
The raids were conducted in connection with the Junior Basic Teachers recruitment scam.
Protesting farmers owing allegiance to different farmers' bodies blocked state and national highways at several places on Saturday, causing inconvenience to commuters.
Amritsar was lashed by 17.2 mm of rain while Patiala had 20.4 mm of rain.
A railway official said the Talgo run was only a trial and, in case of launch of commercial services, clearance from CRS would be taken
The train with nine lightweight coaches will start its journey at 7.55 PM from New Delhi station and is expected to reach Mumbai at about 8.31 AM in the morning
'There is nothing more this government can do now to break our agitation.' 'It has used all the tactics and has failed'
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd will invest Rs 631 crore (Rs 6.31 billion) in extending its 609-km Mumbai-Manmad-Indore petroleum product pipeline to Piyala, near Delhi.
As the national transporter is planning to come out with semi-high speed routes where trains can clock an average speed of 160-200 kmph, dedicated testing becomes essential.
The Spanish train maker has offered to test run its lighter and faster trains free of cost on the existing Indian Railways network.
They were stranded on a concrete platform at the bottom of a pillar of an under-construction structure to create a lake at Baghwati Nagar, they said.
It was a 50-year-old man arrested on Wednesday who had entered into an altercation with Junaid and his brothers over seat sharing.
Land acquisition costs have gone up to almost 50% of total project cost.
On the claim of the victim's brothers that they were called 'beef eaters' by the accused, Goyal said, "No such thing has come to the fore during the main accused's questioning so far."
The party hopes that the multiple road projects, schools, canals, and water projects which have come up in the Meo-Muslim-dominated area will be able to sway the votes in its favour.
Talgo's arrival in India marks the beginning faster and efficient train services.
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday kick-started his three-day-long road show in Uttar Pradesh.
Tightening the noose around whistleblower Indian Administrative Service officer Ashok Khemka, the Haryana government has chargesheeted him in connection with cancellation of the mutation of a land deal between Robert Vadra and real estate major DLF in Gurgaon in October last year and accusing him of causing damage to the reputation of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law.
Cracking the whip on whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka, the Haryana government has decided to charge sheet him for alleged administrative misconduct in cancelling the mutation of the land deal between Robert Vadra and real estate major DLF in Gurgaon.
As of now, the Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani Express runs at an average speed of 85 km per hour.
After the trial run on the Bareilly-Moradabad line, it will be tried on Rajdhani route between Mathura and Palwal for 40 days with speed up to 180 km per hour.
Talgo's Series 9 locomotive to cut Delhi-Mumbai travel time to 12 hours
Asserting that India wants peaceful relations with all countries but it should not be treated as its weakness, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said security forces have been directed to give a "befitting" reply to ceasefire violations by Pakistan.
Here's what the national capital needs to do to ensure the residents stop breathing toxic fumes.
Metro cities are ranked lower in cleanliness index and tourist towns also lag
While inaugurating the projects, Modi said highways construction has reached 27-km a day from mere 12-km a day during the Congress regime.
Will be given choice of govt and privately funded modes to put highway projects that didn't get bids under PPP model.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assets worth Rs 1.26 crore while Defence and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stands out as the richest minister with assets totalling Rs 72.10 crore.
Junaid was my son. He was son and brother also to the people on the train compartment of his last journey. He was son or brother also of those at the railway station where he breathed his last breath. This moving excerpt from Harsh Mander's Partitions Of The Heart: Unmaking The Idea Of India reveals why we must immediately end the hatred surging across north India before it consumes us all.
The focus is now on having premium service to give passenger comfort and increasing train speeds.
The state is trying hard to improve ease of doing business by several notches.
This classification of districts is to be followed by states and union terrotories till a week post May 3, when the second phase of lockdown will end, for containment operations.
Sangh affiliates believe the government's apparent anti-poor message led to their loss
But the Robert Vadra firm, which held luxury apartments in top DLF projects, sees income and profits dry up since FY11.
One of India's foremost wildlife photographers Rathika Ramasamy shares her most favourite photographs that'll make you go 'wow'.
Kiran Kanojia lost her limb when two miscreants made away with her bag. But she hasn't let that stop her.
Two clerics from Harayana arrested last month for their suspected links to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, and another operative, had allegedly visited the Muzaffarnagar relief camps in Uttar Pradesh and sought to recruit men to their module, a television news channel reported on Tuesday.
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