Delhi Metro’s Yamuna Bank-Anand Vihar line, close to the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, was opened for public Thursday.
‘The Metro started its operations at 6 a.m. We expect a good ridership,’ a metro official said.
The official claimed that the frequency of the trains was normal at eight minutes. However, commuters complained that the trains were coming at [...]
The Delhi Metro Wednesday rolled on to Anand Vihar, on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, expecting to ease traffic flow in densely populated east Delhi. The new line, which opens for public Thursday, will also be of great help to Ghaziabad commuters.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy flagged off [...]
A railway terminal, an interstate bus terminal and now a Metro line… east Delhi’s Anand Vihar Wednesday turned into an enviable transport hub with the inauguration of the Yamuna Bank-Anand Vihar Metro line.
The 6.25-km long elevated line, inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy Wednesday noon, will [...]
The Delhi Metro Wednesday rolled on to Anand Vihar on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, expecting to ease traffic flow in east Delhi. It opens to the public Thursday morning.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy flagged off the 6.25-km line at Yamuna Bank station in east Delhi.
Dikshit and [...]
The Delhi Metro’s Anand Vihar line, close to Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was flagged off Wednesday and will be open to the public Thursday.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy flagged off the 6.25 km line from Laxmi Bank in east Delhi up to Anand Vihar.
This is the fourth [...]
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has directed the civic and police authorities to guide the capital’s homeless to night shelters in the city in view of the dipping mercury spelling severe cold.
On a visit to a night shelter at the Delhi Gate where 100 people took refuge Monday night, Dikshit distributed 50 blankets and asked [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Delhi Metro will open its services from Laxmi Nagar in east Delhi up to Anand Vihar, close to Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, Jan 7, officials said Monday.
Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit will inaugurate the new 6.25 km line Jan 6 and it will [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The Delhi government Monday granted exemption from payment of luxury tax to hotels providing accommodation to delegates and technical experts during the Commonwealth Games this year.
After a cabinet meeting here, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said it is estimated that the amount of exemption in luxury tax will be around [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday inaugurated the Twizy Z.E. Concept, a new electric car from the stables of Renault, which will be out on Indian roads by 2011.
This blue and white coloured car is a two-seater car, which works on the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Guess what’s top most on Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s wishlist for the New Year? Well, no surprises in that department — she’s wishing for the grand success of the Commonwealth Games 2010.
Wishing the people on the occasion of New Year, Dikshit said: ‘The New Year will bring happiness, prosperity, [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Delhi steps into the year of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) struggling to battle infrastructural delays, unending construction work and unimaginable traffic snarls.
The Oct 3-14 Games will have 17 disciplines to be organised at six venue clusters and five stand-alone stadiums in the metropolis. Yet, not a single venue is anywhere [...]
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has earned praise from an unlikely quarter – Bal Thackeray. The Shiv Sena supremo has said she was the ‘only man’ in the Congress as she has raised the politically touchy issue of how the burgeoning population of migrants was overwhelming Delhi and stretching its resources [...]
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has earned laurels from Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray for making a proposal aimed at cutting down the flow of migrants to the national capital from neighbouring states.
In an editorial in Monday’s ‘Saamna’, the party newspaper, its editor Thackeray has described Dikshit as the ‘only man’ [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for successfully leading the nation as one of the growing powers of the world. She was speaking here at the launch of the party’s yearlong 125th anniversary celebrations.
‘Manmohan Singh-ji is successfully leading the nation as a growing power with his [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) The Delhi government earned Rs.8,394 crore from various taxes in the last eight months, an official statement said Thursday.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit reviewed the progress of tax revenue collection in 2009-2010. The meeting was also attended by state Finance Minister A.K. Walia and senior officials.
‘A discussion took place [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Delhi government Tuesday announced that monthly pension of Rs.1,000 would be given to divorced, separated, abandoned, deserted and destitute women in the capital.
Announcing the decision after a Delhi cabinet meeting here, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said the government has decided to expand the eligibility conditions under Widow Pension Scheme [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who has admitted to being nervous over the preparedness for the Commonwealth Games, Monday said contractors responsible for delay in games projects will be blacklisted.
‘The government will not listen to any excuses for delay in projects completion and contractors responsible for delays would be blacklisted [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20(ANI): The Group of Ministers (GoM) and the core committee responsible for the completion of the projects related to the 2010 Commonwealth Games met to review and discuss the preparations for the mega event on Sunday.
Addressing the media, Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister M. S. Gill, expressed his satisfaction over [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Sunday admitted to being nervous about preparations for the Commonwealth Games scheduled to take place in the capital Oct 3-14 next year.
‘I am still not confident… nervous. But the work will be done,’ Dikshit told a news channel after attending a meeting of the Group [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Sunday admitted to being nervous about preparations for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) scheduled to take place in the capital next year.
‘I am still not comfortable… nervous. But the work will be done,’ Dikshit told a news channel after attending a meeting of the Group of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Thursday inaugurated a four km storm water tunnel-drain near Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) that would ensure no waterlogging on runways after rains.
Dikshit, who jointly inaugurated the drain with Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, described the project as a challenging one.
A press release issued [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday termed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) no-confidence motion against her government, accusing it of falling on all fronts, a ‘total waste of time’.
The no-confidence motion, moved by BJP leader V.K. Malhotra in the legislative assembly, said the common man was suffering under the rule [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Delhiites are not smiling and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is worried.
‘More than 80 percent of Delhi’s population is suffering from various dental ailments, including periodontal (advanced gum disease), cavities, self-inflicted wear and traumatic injuries to teeth and most of them are preventable with early education,’ a worried Diskhit said at [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) was Tuesday entrusted the task to attend to dental emergency and to provide complete dental healthcare to over 7,000 athletes and delegates during the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS), which is a part of the MAMC, will also set up [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The Delhi government has fined Tata Motors Rs.4 crore for failing to ensure proper maintenance of its low-floor buses and directed the firm to undertake a comprehensive check-up of 950 low-floor buses by January 2010.
‘Of Rs.10 crore (Rs.100 million) which was to be paid to Tata Motors as annual maintenance [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) At a time when spiralling food prices are burning a hole in citizens’ collective pocket, the Delhi government Monday introduced two bills – to tax television through DTH (Direct to Home) services and to increase taxes on some goods, including household items.
Finance Minister Ashok Kumar Walia introduced the Delhi Entertainment [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) The Delhi government Wednesday decided to waive the 12.5 percent value added tax on sugar imports, a move that authorities believe will bring down its price in the capital.
‘The exemption will stabilise the price of sugar,’ Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said.
Sugar prices have shot up in the city. A kilogram [...]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Congress said Thursday that a court verdict or comprehensive settlement accepted by all stake-holders were the only possible solutions to the Ayodhya dispute.
Answering a questions on the promise of the then prime minister Narasimha Rao’s government to rebuild the Babri Mosque following its demolition Dec 6, 1992, party spokesman [...]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Thursday said the pavements being constructed in the national capital will be ‘disabled-friendly’, among other features in transport and buildings for the convenience of the disabled.
All government buildings are being made disabled-friendly, she said after distributing wheelchairs and modern wheeled walkers to over 40 [...]
New Delhi, Dec.3 (ANI): Activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a protest on Thursday here against the hike in the tariff of piped water supply in the city.
After hiking the fares of bus and metro, the Delhi government raised the water tariff upto two-and-a-half-times.
The [...]
