The superfast double-decker train running between Delhi and Jaipur is new and posh, says a friend who has just been on it, up and down.
The top court on August 31 had directed the removal of around 48,000 slum dwellings along the railway tracks in Delhi within three months and said there shall not be any kind of political interference in execution of the plan.
A Pakistani diplomat and his driver were allegedly roughed up on Monday after his vehicle hit a motorcycle in south Delhi, police said.
Passengers claim that robbers looted purses, cash, carry bags, gold chains, mobiles and many more items from multiple passengers
The Ayanagar weather station recorded 122.8 mm between 8.30 am on Wednesday and 8.30 am on Thursday, which was 11 times the normal rainfall.
Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad tells Rediff.com that the government have decided to repeal 36 obsolete laws immediately, but many more will be added to this list in the coming months. The minister also informs that this exercise was undertaken on the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had flagged the issue soon after he took charge. Rediff.com contributor Anita Katyal reports.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the Centre to provide medical oxygen to Delhi.
The protest by farmers at the Delhi border points entered the sixth day and is set to continue as the critical talks between three Union ministers and farmer groups ended in a stalemate on Tuesday after they rejected the government's suggestion of a new committee to look into issues raised by agitating farmers.
Sarai Battiwala weighs in on why today's couples are less successful at making their unions last, as compared to previous generations.
Three days after cops lathicharged and assaulted women in Bihar's Nalanda district, all the 30 policemen from the Noor Sarai police station were transferred and three were suspended including station officer in charge Avadesh Singh, a police official told this scribe.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the country needs to be prepared for the third wave of COVID-19 which experts say could be more harmful, especially for children, and emphasised upon the need to create buffer stock of oxygen.
A 64-year-old hotelier on Monday alleged before the Bombay high court that Assistant Commissioner of police Vasant Dhobale, the controversial officer who has recently raided many hotels in the city for flouting laws, had assaulted him, and demanded action against him.
The incident took place at about 3 am when the truck was returning from Agra, police said.
'Now you see a patient, 10 minutes later the patient is dead.' 'The second wave is definitely much more dangerous, brutal and fatal than the first wave.' 'The number of deaths and infections in India today are very, very, high; the actual numbers are not being reported.'
Delhi on Saturday witnessed heavy traffic jams with water-logging on several busy intersections leaving motorists stuck on the streets.
Preliminary reports into the composition of the bomb show the presence of magnetic pieces and sulphur, reports Vicky Nanajappa
Delhi continued to reel under massive traffic jams due to waterlogging as heavy rains lashed the city for second consecutive day on Saturday flooding several arterial roads and leaving commuters stranded for hours while exposing civic bodies' lack of preparedness to deal with the perennial problem.
A 36-year-old suspected woman Maoist, wanted by the Chhattisgarh police, was on Tuesday arrested from a south Delhi locality where she was allegedly hiding, police sources said. Soni Sori, a primary school teacher and an aunt of Lingaram Kodopi who was recently arrested for allegedly acting as a conduit between Maoists and Essar, was apprehended from Katwaria Sarai by a team of Delhi police. "We raided the premises on a tip-off provided by the Chhattisgarh police," said a cop
On Thursday, Congress vowed to continue with its protests against the Uttar Pradesh government's land acquisition policy after party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was arrested and released following his visit to the epicentre of the stir to support the agitating farmers.
A prominent Pakistani journalist who went missing over the weekend, was found dead in Punjab province on Tuesday and his body bore marks of torture, police said.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, that a final decision would be taken in consultation with the Railways, Delhi Government and the Urban Development Ministry.
2 January 2010: Three accidents involving five trains took place in Uttar Pradesh due to dense fog conditions,killing 15 people. 16 January 2010: Three people died and around a dozen were injured when two express trains -- Kalindi Express and Shram Shakti Express -- collided in thick fog in UttarPradesh. May 28, 2010: Jyaneshwari Express derailed by Naxals killing at least 148 people.
Vehicular movement in some parts of New Delhi was affected for the second day on Tuesday due to water-logging, a spill-over effect of last evening's heavy rains.
Three new non-stop Duronto trains will be launched on Wednesday, the last day of the current financial year. They are the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar, New Delhi-Howrah, and Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Jammu Tawi Duronto expresses.
A suspected Harkat-ul- Mujahideen militant, who allegedly aided Pakistani militants to smuggle RDX into the national capital seven years ago, was arrested in New Delhi on Tuesday.Habibur Rehman, trained in Pakistan in handling improvised explosive devices and other explosive devices, was caught from Sarai Kalekhan locality on Monday evening. Rehman, hailing from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, was on the run since September 2001.
'The people, media and politicians are ready to listen to the troubles of Kangana Ranaut, but we are unwanted lives in the heart of Delhi.' Shine Jacob reports.
The separatist groups had called for a march to Lal Chowk to protest civilian deaths during the unrest.
To ensure enough food to the poor during the lockdown, the government last week started distributing free 5 kg of rice or wheat per person and 1 kg pulse per household under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana to over 81 crore PDS beneficiaries.
In a move that is bound to irk Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi once again joined a Dalit family for dinner in a village in Amethi on Friday night.
"An alert has been sounded in the district after the arrests yesterday in Delhi and Odisha," said an official.
In the second-such incident in a fortnight, two mysterious blasts in a span of five minutes triggered panic in the national capital New Delhi in which one person was injured and four cars were damaged.
'Why do politicians ask for votes if they cannot rehabilitate us? Where do we go -- to the footpath?'
The 92-year-old shehnai legend was brought in an ambulance from his Harha Sarai residence to the private hospital in Lanka area of the city, sources said.
1 killed, 12 injured in communal clashes in UP
In a humanitarian gesture, Coca Cola India has decided to rejuvenate all old and defunct baawdis (step wells) in Rajasthan at its own expense to meet the water requirements of villagers in the desert state.
PM Modi can be quite a chatty co-passenger. Here's proof
Jahan Singh and Karamveer were arrested on Friday after the 35-year-old woman lodged a complaint at the Sarai Rohilla police station in north Delhi, police sources said.
From offering free food to passengers to re-arranging train timings Railways Minister Piyush Goyal announced a slew of measures to make the Railways more efficient
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