Delhi-Mumbai Expressway ahead of its dedication to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway (DME) on Sunday, throwing open to the public a taste of the country’s most modern and ambitious highway project.
The 246-km stretch will enable people to cover the Delhi-Jaipur stretch in about three hours, banking on eight lanes on each side, providing a smooth ride on the access-controlled road with an automated traffic management system.
This stretch has been built at a cost of Rs 12,150 crore. The overall project, connecting Delhi and Mumbai over 1,386 km of a newly constructed alignment, costs around Rs 1 lakh crore. The entire stretch is targeted to open by December, 2024.
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway ahead of its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)
As the 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway gets ready for inauguration, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has shared a compilation video showing different sections of the highly-anticipated project under the night sky.
“Aesthetic night views from the architectural marvel Delhi Mumbai Expressway. Have a look!!” the Union Minister said in a Facebook post.
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway ahead of its dedication to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)
An initiative that is expected to revolutionise travel between Delhi and Mumbai, the 1,380-km eight-lane expressway will also benefit various cities along the way. The work on the project started in 2018 with the foundation stone being laid on March 9, 2019. The Ministry of Finance had announced that the expressway would be built at a capital cost of Rs 101,420 crore.
Once completed, the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will become India’s longest greenfield expressway covering 1,386 km. It will reduce the travel distance between the national and financial capital by 12 per cent, from 1,424 km to 1,242 km, while the travel time will be cut by 50 per cent, from the current 24 hours to 12 hours.
The Delhi Police is also set to receive 13 trained dogs from the Army’s Remount and Veterinary Corps unit.
In its largest procurement of explosive detecting dogs since the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Delhi Police has got 34 puppies on board and is set to receive 13 more trained canines to add strength to its G-20 preparation. This will double the strength of the K9 squad to nearly 100, senior police officers said.
Sources told The Indian Express that the puppies are less than one year old, and come from a kennel in Hyderabad, while the trained dogs from the Indian Army’s RVC (Remount and Veterinary Corps) unit will join by June. “We currently have 52 dogs in our K9 squad of different age groups, out of which nine are tracker dogs, three are for detecting narcotics and 40 are explosive detection dogs,” an officer said, adding that the new canines will take the total strength of its dog squad to 99.
Police said since the minor victim is from a Scheduled Tribe, SC/ST Act has been invoked in the FIR. (File)
Days after a 17-year-old domestic help was rescued from a house in Gurgaon after allegations that her employers had tortured her, Gurgaon Police Friday arrested the placement agency owner, from where the minor had been allegedly hired, and another person who had facilitated her hiring.
Police said the placement agency owner, Arun Kumar Turi, and the other accused, Manish Nag, hail from Jharkhand. A police officer said, “Arun runs a placement agency in Delhi. Probe has found that the agency is not registered. Manish works in housekeeping and has been in touch with Arun since the lockdown. The minor’s maternal uncle was acquainted with Manish from Jharkhand and when the uncle came to Delhi, he contacted Manish and asked him to arrange a job for the minor as her family was struggling financially. Manish took the girl to Arun, who in turn gave him the address of the couple in Gurgaon and Manish brought the girl to Gurgaon.”
Later in the evening, the residents took out a candle-light march in the society. (File)
A year after a large portion of a sixth-floor apartment of tower D at Gurgaon’s Chintels Paradiso collapsed, killing two women and injuring a man, residents of the society staged a protest outside the office of the deputy commissioner on Friday, demanding reconstruction of the affected houses and towers. They demanded concrete steps be taken by the district administration for resettlement of claims of impacted owners.
In a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, the residents said, “The Gurgaon administration has continually delayed the matter by not issuing timely orders to the developer for providing permanent and equivalent accommodation to the suffering owners by buying new flats of similar size and specifications, in the same vicinity. In case this is not fully workable to the developer for some reasons, the developer can rebuild the unsafe towers in a time-bound manner under the Haryana government supervision and accommodate all the owners in the interim period by paying market rental values for payment of their rents/EMIs during this period.”
ASJ Varma’s court has been hearing two cases connected to the violence that took place near Jamia Millia Islamia on December 13 and December 15, 2019. (PTI, file)
The Delhi court judge who six days ago discharged JNU student Sharjeel Imam and 10 others in connection with violence near Jamia Millia Islamia in 2019 has recused himself from hearing other cases related to the incident.
On February 4, Additional Sessions Judge Arul Varma of the Saket district court discharged Imam, student activists Asif Iqbal Tanha and Safoora Zargar, and eight others. The judge had observed that the police did not apprehend the “actual perpetrators” but “managed to rope” the accused persons as “scapegoats”.
On Friday, the Delhi Police moved a plea in the High Court challenging ASJ Varma’s order. Police said the trial court had been “swayed by emotional and sentimental feelings” and had “passed gravely prejudicial and adverse remarks against the prosecuting agency and the investigation”.
After Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena removed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesperson Jasmine Shah and Naveen ND Gupta, son of AAP MP ND Gupta, from the position of 'Government Nominees' on the board of private discoms, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia dubbed the move as "unconstitutional and illegal". The L-G has started a new trend of reversing decisions taken by the elected government of Delhi, Sisodia said at a press conference here.
Amid police security, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Friday demolished several shanties and some multi-storeyed buildings situated on the border of the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Ladha Sarai village. According to the DDA, the land in question belongs to the authority and has been encroached on. The action caused panic among locals living in multi-storey apartments and builder floors near the demolition site, who said the DDA issued notices saying their houses are situated on government land and will be demolished. Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court Friday ordered status quo with respect to 400 jhuggis in a slum colony in Mehrauli area.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has given his approval for a vigilance inquiry in relation to the formation of the Delhi Healthcare Corporation Limited (DHCL), which was incorporated in May 2016 to ensure centralised procurement of drugs and equipment and the smooth functioning of Delhi government’s flagship Mohalla Clinics, it is learnt. The Delhi government did not comment on the development.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari and Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat during the inauguration of a section of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway and various other projects, in Dausa, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (PTI Photo)
A 40-year-old doctor was shot dead inside his clinic by two assailants in Ghaziabad’s Muradnagar late Saturday night, said police. The deceased has been identified as Mohd. Shamshad. Police said the two accused came on a bike. While one of them waited outside, the second man entered the clinic and shot the doctor before the duo fled.
DCP (Rural) Ravi Kumar said: “Around 11.30 pm, Muradnagar police received information that a person has been shot in Rajveer Wali colony. Police immediately reached the spot and sent the victim to a hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries. There were two bullet wounds on his body.” Read more
Delhi Police has served a notice on Lokesh Sharma, the OSD to the Rajasthan chief minister, asking him to appear on Monday for questioning in a phone-tapping case going back to the July 2020 political crisis.
The notice comes days before Delhi High Court is scheduled to hear the Delhi Police Crime Branch’s application seeking vacating of an interim order staying coercive action against Sharma.
Hearing on the Crime Branch application and a petition by Sharma — the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot — seeking quashing of the FIR against him is scheduled for February 20. Read more
Elections to the post of mayor, deputy mayor and six members of the standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have been scheduled yet again and will be held on February 16. This will be the fourth attempt to hold internal polls for the civic body in the last two months.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had taken the matter to the Supreme Court earlier this month petitioning the apex court to get the exercise conducted as soon as possible and it is listed for hearing on Monday. Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the Congress of underestimating the valour of the armed forces and said its governments did not carry out development work in border areas, fearing the enemy could exploit the new roads to advance into the country. He was addressing a BJP rally here, soon after a ceremony a few kilometres away to inaugurate the first phase of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, which he said would bring pace to development in Rajasthan as well.
Modi also accused the Congress government in Rajasthan, where assembly polls are due this year-end, of lacking vision and hindering the state's development, and said its plans and announcements remained just on paper. (PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of the highly-anticipated Delhi-Mumbai expressway on Sunday, February 12. The 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section will be open to the public, reducing the travel time from the national capital to Jaipur from five hours to about three hours.
Photos of the newly-inaugurated Delhi-Mumbai Expressway earlier went viral, receiving widespread appreciation online. The expressway promises to revolutionise travel between the two cities, cutting down travel times by half, from over 24 hours to just around 12 hours. Read more
The new Delhi-Mumbai Expressway passes through backward areas to give priority to the development of socially, economically and educationally backward districts, Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said here on Sunday. The minister was addressing the inauguration ceremony of the first phase of the highway in Dausa.
He also said the government is making every effort to take the road infrastructure of the country to a level at par with America by the end of 2024. "We will try to make India's highways at par with America's," Gadkari said.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has talked about making India self-reliant and especially the infrastructure of international standards, which he has repeatedly put in front of us as a goal. We believe that before the end of 2024, under the guidance of the prime minister, we will try our best to make India's road infrastructure at par with America," the Union minister said. (PTI)
In Rajasthan's Dausa, PM Narendra Modi said Sunday, "For decades, some people have teased Rajasthan by calling it a sick state. But BJP is making Rajasthan the strongest base of developed India".
Addressing his second rally in Rajasthan's Dausa, PM Modi said that the BJP government spent much more on rails and roads than previous governments. "For decades, some people teased Rajasthan as BIMARU BIMARU (Bihar, UP, Rajasthan, and MP). But we will turn it into the strongest pillar of development," he said.
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the Delhi-Mumbai expressway was not just a road, but a "growth engine". "Its a Historic day for Rajasthan and the country... there are 10 tribal districts and several aspirational districts along the way," he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Delhi-Mumbai expressway will also benefit many tourist places such as the Sariska Tiger Reserve, Keoladeo and Ranthambore National Park, Jaipur and Ajmer. "Rajasthan has already been attractive for tourists from the country and abroad, now its attraction will increase further," he said.
During the inauguration of the 246-km stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, PM Modi said Sunday, "For the last 9 yrs, the central govt is continuously making huge investments in infrastructure. The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway and the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor are going to become two strong pillars of progress for Rajasthan and the country"
The 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section which will be thrown open to the public will reduce the travel time from the national capital to Jaipur from five hours to about three hours, said PM Modi
While speaking during the inauguration of the 246-km stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai highway, PM Modi said, "We have given Rs 50,000 crore for roads in Rajasthan in last few years".
"This time we have given Rs 10 lakh crore [as capital expenditure] in the budget. Rajasthan will benefit a lot from this," he added.
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot addressed the gathering via video-conferencing during the inauguration of the Delhi-Mumbai expressway on Sunday. Here's what he said:
? "PM visiting a state again in such a short time holds importance. I hope you keep visiting. You are in Dausa which is among 13 ERCP districts. ERCP has become an issue. You had mentioned it in your Jaipur and Ajmer rallies [that you will positively consider declaring it as a National Project]. So hope you will take a decision on priority and keep your views on it," Gehlot said.
? Gehlot said that though 50 roads in Rajasthan have been approved by the National Highways, there has been no Gazette Notification yet. "I hope the other pending works are completed soon too," he said.
? Delhi Mumbai Expressway will be India’s longest expressway with length of 1,386 km. It will reduce travel distance between Delhi and Mumbai by 12% from 1,424 km to 1,242 Km and travel time will be reduced by 50% from 24 hrs to 12 hrs.
? It will pass through six states of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra and connect major cities like Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat.
? The Expressway will also serve 93 PM Gati Shakti Economic Nodes, 13 Ports, 8 Major Airports and 8 multi-modal logistics parks (MMLPs) along with spurs to new upcoming greenfield airports such as Jewar Airport, Navi Mumbai Airport and JNPT port.
? The Expressway will have a catalytic impact in the developmental trajectory of all adjoining regions, thus contributing in a major way in the economic transformation of the country, the Prime Minister's office said.
At Hilalpur toll plaza in Nuh, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said, that over 129 km of the Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot will pass through the state. He said, "With the expressway connecting Gurgaon to Jaipur and passing through Nuh, which is an aspirational district and quite backward, it will help in the Nuh's industrial development and offer several employment opportunities".
The 246 km stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai expressway will be inaugurate today. The Sohna-Dausa stretch is expected to significantly cut travel time between Delhi and Jaipur to around three hours from the current five-hour, 40-minute drive, will reduce the burden on the Delhi-Jaipur highway and improve connectivity between Gurgaon, Nuh, Palwal and adjoining areas.
Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala said Sunday, "With the inauguration of this stretch of the expressway, the whole of NCR region's connectivity will improve and the region will emerge as an epicenter of logistics transport in this region".
During the inauguration of the 246-km stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, Union Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said, "We are trying to make India's road infrastructure similar at the United States".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Sohna-Dausa stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan’s Dausa on Sunday, said officials of the district administration and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
The Sohna-Dausa stretch, expected to significantly cut travel time between Delhi and Jaipur to around three hours from the current five-hour, 40-minute drive, will reduce the burden on the Delhi-Jaipur highway and improve connectivity between Gurgaon, Nuh, Palwal and adjoining areas. Read more
With a part of the 246-km stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai expressway passing through Haryana, Haryana deputy CM Dushyant Chautala said Sunday, "This stretch of the expressway will offer endless possibilities for the coming generations of this region."
'History is a testament that wherever an expressway comes up, that region has seen development and progress,' he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Sunday (February 12) inaugurate one stretch of the highly-anticipated Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. The 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section will be thrown open to the public, reducing the travel time from the national capital to Jaipur from five hours to around two hours.
This section of the Expressway, the first to be completed, has been developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore, and will provide a major boost to the economic development of the entire region, a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said. Read more
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday protested outside the BJP headquarters here, demanding a probe into the allegations of fraud against the Adani group in the Hindenburg research report.
The party's Delhi convener Gopal Rai said a joint parliamentary committee comprising members from various parties should probe the matter. "BJP is running away from the probe. There is only one leader, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who is not scared of any investigation," he said.
Adani Group stocks have taken a beating on the bourses after the US-based Hindenburg Research made a litany of allegations against it, including fraudulent transactions and share price manipulation.
The business conglomerate has dismissed the allegations as lies. Opposition parties, including the Congress, have alleged that the meltdown in Adani Group shares is a scam that involves common people's money as LIC and SBI have invested in them. The party has also been demanding a joint parliamentary committee probe into the issue. (PTI)
The Delhi police have detained a group of residents, including women, for staging protests against the police and DDA officials in Mehrauli. While locals alleged they were thrashed, police said they did not resort to lathi-charge. "They (residents) were obstructing the DDA officials and police personnel. Some women threw red chilli powder at the police. A few have been detained. Suitable legal action will be taken," a senior police officer said.
Delhi Police has served a notice on Lokesh Sharma, the OSD to the Rajasthan chief minister, asking him to appear on Monday for questioning in a phone-tapping case going back to the July 2020 political crisis.
The notice comes days before Delhi High Court is scheduled to hear the Delhi Police Crime Branch's application seeking vacating of an interim order staying coercive action against Sharma.
Hearing on the Crime Branch application and a petition by Sharma -- the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot -- seeking quashing of the FIR against him is scheduled for February 20.
On March 25, 2021, the Delhi Police registered an FIR against Sharma for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and unlawfully intercepting telegraphic signals (telephonic conversation) on a complaint lodged by Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the BJP MP from Jodhpur. (PTI)
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that Punjab's law and order situation has seen a huge improvement under the leadership of Bhagwant Mann.
Tagging a media report on how the law and order situation has improved under Mann, Kejriwal tweeted that earlier gangsters had political protection but now that scenario has changed.
"When we came to power in Punjab, the law and order situation was in a bad shape. Gangsters and criminals openly had political protection. Together with the people of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann ji has improved the law and order situation. Now no gangster or criminal has political protection," the AAP national convener said in a tweet in Hindi. The Aam Aadmi Party is currently in power in both Delhi and Punjab. (PTI)
Sporting saffron headgears and scarves, people of all ages have gathered in large numbers at an event here to mark the beginning of year-long celebrations commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of social reformer Dayanand Saraswati. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the celebrations at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Sunday. He also unveiled a logo for the anniversary celebrations at the event, being described as 'Gyan Jyoti Parv'.
The gathering of Saraswati's followers, most of them wearing saffron headgears and scarves bearing Vedic texts, virtually turned the stadium into a sea of saffron as chants of sacred mantras reverberated around the venue. An exhibition on the social reformer's legacy and the institutions established guided by Saraswati's vision is also being hosted on the stadium premises.
Born in 1824, Saraswati worked to counter the social inequities prevalent at the time. Arya Samaj has played a key role in the country's cultural and social awakening with its emphasis on social reforms and education, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement on Saturday.
During a meeting in January, Modi called upon academic and cultural institutions across the country to produce well-researched work on the contributions of the great visionary and social reformer, as well the Arya Samaj -- which will complete 150 years of existence in 2025. Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in 1875.
Modi, who arrived at the venue around 11 am, was welcomed on the dais by chants of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' and invoking the name of Saraswati. Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy, and ministers of state for culture Meenakshi Lekhi and Arjun Ram Meghwal shared the dais with Modi and the other dignitaries.
The government has been committed to celebrating social reformers and important personalities, especially those whose contributions were not given their due yet on a pan-India scale, the PMO said in its statement on Saturday. From declaring the birth anniversary of Birsa Muda as 'Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas' to participating in a programme commemorating Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary, the Prime Minister has been leading these initiatives from the front, it said. (PTI)
After inspecting the traffic control centre on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway at Sohna, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar have arrived at Hilalpur Toll Plaza in Nuh. Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala is also present.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section of the highly-anticipated Delhi-Mumbai Expressway at 3 pm today.
The Delhi Police is all set to sign an MoU with caller ID verification platform Truecaller to help the public identify verified numbers and protect themselves from cyber frauds and scams relating to impersonation in the name of government officials.
In addition to educating Delhiites and holding a joint awareness campaign against cyber frauds, Truecaller will soon help display official numbers of the Delhi Police representatives on the app's government directory services, police said.
"During the Covid pandemic, Truecaller had helped us a lot because there were a lot of scams and frauds reported then on the pretext of selling oxygen cylinders, concentrators, medicines and other essentials associated with treatment of the deadly virus. So, then our officials identified the number of those fraudsters and alerted Truecaller which displayed those unverified numbers as spam," Suman Nalwa, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Public Relations Officer), told PTI.
"Now we are signing an MOU with them following which they will verify all the official contact numbers of the Delhi Police since fraudsters have many times posed as officials of the force and extorted money from the public by displaying picture of senior officers on their WhatsApp profile," she said.
"This will help users identify verified numbers and protect them from frauds and scams relating to impersonation in the name of government officials. All verified numbers of Delhi Police will have a green badge and a blue tick mark, with a government service tag highlighting that it has been verified for users," Nalwa added.
According to officials, Truecaller will also mark the phone numbers furnished by the Delhi Police against whom it has received complaints regarding harassment, scam or other registered issues. This will help Delhiites protect themselves and alert them in case these numbers continue to remain active.
Earlier this week, a 22-year-old Indian based in Italy was arrested for allegedly posing as the Vice President of India by creating a fake WhatsApp account using Jagdeep Dhankhar's picture as his profile display to dupe people and seek favours from senior bureaucrats. The accused, Gagandeep Singh, who is living in Offanengo, Italy since 2007 with his family, got the idea of impersonation after watching several YouTube videos.
In another case, three men who posed as officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Crime Branch of Delhi Police were arrested for allegedly extorting Rs 1.8 crore from a retired commandant of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force by threatening to post an obscene video of him on social media platforms.
"As per the MoU, we will have to share our official contact numbers for inclusion in the government directory services feature. We will also need to alert Truecaller about the latest cybercrime threats and trends and share numbers on spam or scam on a regular basis," she said.
Besides this, Truecaller will also help in generating awareness about cyber safety by conducting cyberwise training sessions with the assistance of Delhi Police. It will help educating the public about better ways to tackle cyber fraud.
It will also disseminate the Delhi Police-cyber safety videos through the online cyber safety curriculum created by Truecaller which will share push notifications to users within the app about Delhi Police's initiatives on cyber safety, important helpline numbers and their highlights. (PTI)
A team of Central Range, Crime Branch of Delhi Police arrested the accused wanted in case of misappropriation of amount Rs 2.22 crore of Brinks India Private Limited, having a contract with National and private banks to replenish the currency available in ATMs. The accused has been identified as Mohd. Abdul Qadir.
According to police officials, in the year 2018, a case of Criminal Breach of Trust was registered at PS EOW, Delhi on the complaint of Sandeep Jangra, the authorized signatory of Brinks India Private Limited, Janakpuri, Delhi, regarding the misappropriation of an amount of Rs 2,22,54,300.
"The accused was working as custodian of cash for replenishing the amount in ATMs of Private and Nationalized Banks on behalf of Brinks India Private Limited," informed police officials.
According to police officials, on February 23, 2018, the accused disappeared without informing the company. When the cash balance was enquired about, it was found that an amount of Rs. 2,22,54,300 was misappropriated. He was declared proclaimed offender by the Court of CMM West District, Tis Hazari Courts vide order dated August 30, 2019. (ANI)
Delhi Police arrested three persons from Haryana for cyber fraud on the pretext of offering part-time jobs. The arrests have been made by Cyber Police station of Outer District Delhi Police.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Outer District Harendra Kumar Singh, a complainant named Kaushal Kishore, a resident of Vikas Nagar received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number who gave him the offer for a part-time job on a commission basis and instructed him to register on a website where he can earn money by placing product orders.
He was told that he could withdraw the commission from the website account to his own bank account by adding some money to the website account as that account is freezed and it can be de-freezed by adding a certain amount to it. He fell into the trap and lost around Rs 1.39 lakh in multiple transactions. (ANI)
Ahead of the inauguration of its Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar inspected the traffic control centre on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway at Sohna on Sunday. The two will soon head to Hilalpur Toll Plaza in Nuh, where the inaugural function will be held.
The Delhi High Court recently upheld an interim order passed by an additional district judge restraining a firm from selling and manufacturing musical keyboards with a design deceptively similar to that of Japanese electronics company Casio’s keyboard.
A single-judge bench of Justice C Hari Shankar on February 7 confirmed the interim injunction passed by the additional district judge on June 25, 2021, in favour of Casio against Riddhi Siddhi Retail Venture. It said the injunction would be in place until Casio’s main lawsuit was disposed of. Read more
A Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) teacher in South Delhi was allegedly cheated of more than Rs 1.5 lakh by unknown fraudsters who hacked into two of his bank accounts and transferred the money to their accounts.
The police said the teacher had not received any calls, texts or shared bank OTPs, but the accused transferred the money through eight transactions in less than three hours between February 10 and 11, said the police. Read more
The minimum temperature in the national capital on Sunday settled at 9.8 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The relative humidity was recorded at 77 per cent at 8:30 am, it said.
The weather office forecast mainly clear skies with strong winds of up to 25-35 kmph during the day. The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 24 degrees Celsius.
On Saturday, the minimum temperature in the national capital settled at 14 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average, while the maximum temperature was recorded at 27.7 degrees Celsius, five notches above the season's average. (PTI)
Delhi L-G VK Saxena has given his nod for convening the next session of the MCD House on February 16 for election to the post of mayor, official sources said on Sunday. The government had sent the proposal to hold the House session on February 16 and Saxena has accepted it, they said.
Three successive meetings of the House were adjourned in the last one month amid ruckus and commotion over the decision to give voting rights to aldermen without electing the mayor, deputy mayor and members of the standing committee of the civic body. After the civic polls in December, the House was first convened on January 6 but was adjourned following acrimonious exchanges between members of the BJP and AAP.
The second municipal House held on January 24 was briefly adjourned after the oath-taking ceremony, and was later adjourned till the next date by the pro tem presiding officer. After that, the House was adjourned on last Monday again for the third time, a month after the first municipal House.
AAP has alleged that the mayoral election could not be held as the BJP was "strangulating democracy and the Constitution of India", while the saffron party accused the Aam Aadmi Party of coming out with excuses to stall the mayoral poll and blamed it for the stalemate.
AAP had emerged as a clear winner in the December polls, bagging 134 wards and ending the BJP's 15-year rule in the civic body. The BJP won 104 wards to finish second, while the Congress won nine wards in the 250-member municipal House.
The civic body in Delhi had 272 wards across its three corporations – NDMC, SDMC, and EDMC – which existed from 2012-2022, before being reunified into a sole MCD, which formally came into existence on May 22 last year.
The municipal House in Delhi on February 6 failed to elect a mayor following a ruckus over the decision to allow aldermen to vote in the mayoral poll, even as AAP alleged a "planned conspiracy" by the BJP to stall the process. (PTI)
Three thieves including a stepfather-son duo have been arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly stealing Rs 14.5 lakh from a collection agent, the official said. The accused have been identified as Mohammad Naim (26), Deepak (22) and his stepfather Joginder (32).
According to Sagar Singh Kalsi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) the police spun into action after a robbery complaint was received on February 10 from Shiv Kumar Sethi, a resident of Veena Enclave, Railway Road, Nangloi.
"A robbery complaint was registered at the Lahori Gate police station on Friday stating that Rs. 14.5 lakhs has been looted from the victim Shiv Kumar Sethi near the Lahori Gate Chowk. The victim is a collection agent in an ice cream factory situated in Nangloi," DCP said. (ANI)
Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) VK Saxena has approved February 16, suggested by the Delhi government, as the date for holding elections for the posts of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and six members of the standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). This will be the fourth meeting of the House for the purpose. The elections have been stalled thrice previously: on January 6, January 24 and February 6.
On February 12, at around 3 PM, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Dausa, Rajasthan, to lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation road development projects worth more than Rs 18,100 crore.
The Prime Minister’s emphasis on the building of excellent road infrastructure as an engine of growth, development and connectivity in New India, is being realised by the construction of a number of ongoing world-class Expressways across the country. One such important project is the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, whose first completed section, Delhi – Dausa – Lalsot, will be dedicated to the nation by the Prime Minister Sunday.
The 246 km Delhi – Dausa – Lalsot section of the Expressway has been developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore. The operationalisation of this section will reduce the travel time from Delhi to Jaipur from 5 hours to around 3.5 hours and provide a major boost to the economic development of the entire region.
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be India’s longest expressway with a length of 1,386 km. It will reduce the travel distance between Delhi and Mumbai by 12 per cent from 1,424 km to 1,242 Km and travel time will be reduced by 50 per cent from 24 hrs to 12 hrs. It will pass through six states -- Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra -- and connect major cities like Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat.
The Expressway will also serve 93 PM Gati Shakti Economic Nodes, 13 ports, 8 major airports and 8 multi-modal logistics parks (MMLPs) along with spurs to new upcoming greenfield airports such as Jewar Airport, Navi Mumbai Airport and JNPT port. The Expressway will have a catalytic impact on the developmental trajectory of all adjoining regions, thus contributing in a major way to the economic transformation of the country.
During the programme, Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of 247 kilometres of National Highway projects to be developed at a cost of more than Rs 5,940 crore. This includes 67-km long four-lane spur road from Bandikui to Jaipur to be developed at a cost of more than Rs 2,000 crore, a six-lane spur road from Kotputli to Baraodaneo, to be developed at a cost of about Rs 3,775 crore and two-lane paved shoulder of Lalsot - Karoli section, being developed at a cost of about Rs 150 crore. (PIB)
A massive fire broke out in a slum in Noida on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, killing an 8-year-old boy and a 12-day-old newborn girl, said the police. The cause of the fire appears to be a domestic gas cylinder leakage, according to fire service officials. Read more
After leading a walkout over the issue from the Rajya Sabha earlier this week, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will hit the streets in Delhi Sunday with its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into businessman Gautam Adani’s alleged misdemeanours.
The party is scheduled to protest outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg at noon. Read more
A traffic head constable was dragged for a few metres on the bonnet of a car after he tried to stop the vehicle in Northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh, officers said.
Senior officers said on February 9, when the head constable was at Prem Bali Pul area of Shalimar Bagh, he saw a car approaching and sensing something suspicious, he tried to stop the vehicle. However, the vehicle didn’t stop and hit him. He fell on the bonnet and held onto the wiper for a few metres before falling on the ground, an officer said. Read more
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann interacted with foreign-trained principals of Delhi and Punjab government schools at a special Experience Sharing Session Saturday.
This was the first occasion when foreign-trained educators from Delhi and Punjab met on a platform to share their training experiences with each other. Educators were divided into groups of five to facilitate the session.
“The education revolution is now taking shape in Punjab after Delhi. We interacted with Punjab’s educators returning from Singapore today. We have to now make Delhi and Punjab schools the best in the world. Over the last 75 years, no government in Punjab would have sent teachers for foreign training,” Kejriwal said. Read more
Still identified as president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on the BJP youth wing’s website a day after he was expelled from the primary membership of the party, Vasu Rukhar blames “the stress” his wife has been going through for “the incident” involving his month-old daughter earlier this week.
The “incident” in question is the alleged abduction of Rukhar’s daughter from Central Delhi’s Jhandewalan Wednesday, before she was abandoned near a temple in Maurice Nagar. However, as police began their probe into the incident, the child’s mother was also questioned, officers said.
On the cusp of turning 40 and known to be close to BJP’s organisational leadership, Rukhar’s first tryst with politics dates back to his days as an ABVP candidate for the 2008 DU students union polls. Read more
Raju Khartla and Horee Lal, residents of a four-storey building in Mehrauli, stood on the road amid their possessions as the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) pulled the walls of their building down on Saturday.
By evening, the building had gaping holes where the walls once were, revealing a cot, a cupboard, a painting and calendar on the wall and curtains still lying in some of the 10 homes that were hastily vacated in the morning. Right outside the building, ‘Orchid Apartment’, geysers, mattresses and utensils lay on the ground.
“A month ago, some notices were stuck in the locality. But we didn’t know what that was about. Last night, around 9 pm, two policemen came and told us we will have to vacate and the building will be demolished the next morning. Nothing could be moved overnight and, in the morning, the CRPF, police and DDA officials were here to empty the building,” said Khartla’s son-in-law Kuldeep Phartyal, 34. Read full story here
As the 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway gets ready for inauguration, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has shared a compilation video showing different sections of the highly-anticipated project under the night sky.
“Aesthetic night views from the architectural marvel Delhi Mumbai Expressway. Have a look!!” the Union Minister said in a Facebook post. Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Sunday, with the new stretch set to reduce the travel time from the national capital to Jaipur from five hours to around three and a half hours.
Developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore, this first completed section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will provide a major boost to the economic development of the entire region, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said. Modi will launch road development projects worth more than Rs 18,100 crore from Dausa.
The PMO said Modi's emphasis on the building of excellent road infrastructure as an engine of growth, development and connectivity in "New India" is being realised by the construction of a number of ongoing world class expressways across the country.
The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be the India's longest with the length of 1,386 km. It will reduce travel distance between Delhi and Mumbai by 12 per cent, from 1,424 km to 1,242 km, while the travel time will be cut by 50 per cent, from the current 24 hours to 12 hours, it said.
The expressway will pass through six states of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra and connect major cities like Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat.
It will also serve 93 PM Gati Shakti Economic Nodes, 13 ports, eight major airports and eight multi-modal logistics parks (MMLPs) along with spurs to new upcoming greenfield airports such as Jewar Airport, Navi Mumbai Airport and JNPT port.
It will have a catalytic impact in the developmental trajectory of all adjoining regions, thus contributing in a major way in the economic transformation of the country, the PMO said.
During the programme, Modi will also lay the foundation stone of 247 km of national highway projects to be developed at a cost of more than Rs 5,940 crore. (PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate here on Sunday year-long celebrations to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of social reformer and Arya Samaj founder Dayanand Saraswati.
Born in 1824, Saraswati worked to counter the then prevalent social inequities. Arya Samaj has played a key role in cultural and social awakening of the country by its emphasis on social reforms and education, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement.
The government has been committed to celebrating social reformers and important personalities, especially those whose contributions were not given their due yet on a pan-India scale, it added.
From declaring the birth anniversary of Birsa Muda as the Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas to participating in a programme commemorating Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary, Prime Minister Modi has been leading such initiatives from the front, the PMO said. (PTI)
President Droupadi Murmu will be on a two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh from today to participate in various events including the Valedictory Session of UP Global Investors Summit-2023 in Lucknow.
According to the President's Secretariat, "President will visit Uttar Pradesh from February 12 to 13, 2023." On Sunday, the President will grace the Valedictory Session of UP Global Investors Summit-2023 in Lucknow. Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit 2023 in Lucknow.
UP Global Investors Summit 2023 is the flagship investment summit of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. The mega event is aimed to bring together policymakers, industry leaders, academia, think tanks and leaders from across the world to collectively explore business opportunities and forge partnerships.
Investor UP 2.0 is a comprehensive, investor-centric and service-oriented investment ecosystem in Uttar Pradesh that endeavors to deliver relevant, well-defined, standardized services to investors, said an official statement. (ANI)
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday took suo motu of the reported case of sexual assault of a minor student in a school of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) by the Sports Teacher.
The NHRC issued notices to the Delhi Chief Secretary and the Police Commissioner to submit a report in the matter within four weeks.
"The Commission has observed that the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of human rights violations of the victim. Accordingly, it has issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi, and the Commissioner of Police, Delhi to submit a report within four weeks," the notice said directing the inclusion of the action against the teacher, status of investigation, and counselling and statutory relief provided to the girl, in the report.
It also asked the police to necessarily mention if the State or Delhi Legal Service Authority has awarded compensation to the victim irrespective of the trial taking place or offender was traced or identified in terms of Section 357(4) of the Cr.PC, if yes, the quantum of compensation. (ANI)
The Delhi High Court has directed Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to initiate departmental action against its officers as suggested by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly formulating improper tenders and lack of planning before issuing of purchase orders of GSM telephone mobile lines.
A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad in its February 9 decision observed that the CBI registered a preliminary inquiry on the direction of the HC and had submitted its status report after concluding the investigation. Read more
Noting that there is “continuing illegal mining” in a village in Gurgaon and remedial measures are not being taken, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Chief Secretary of Haryana to look into the matter.
In an order issued on February 8, the Principal Bench of the NGT noted: “…it is seen that there is continuing illegal mining but the administration is not controlling the same. In spite of acknowledged ecological significance of Aravalli Hills and threat to wildlife habitat and corridor, remedial measures are not being taken. This shows paralysis of administration on the subject in breach of Public Trust doctrine obligating the State to protect the environment. Plea of lack of resources is poor substitute for compliance of mandatory constitutional duties of the state.” Read more
The Delhi High Court recently ordered a joint inspection of the Rohingya detention centre 'Seva Kendra' in Northwest Delhi by officials of the Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO), central government and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) over the alleged lack of basic amenities.
Justice Prathiba M Singh on Thursday ordered the inspection of Seva Kendra in Shejada Bagh. The court also asked to place the photographs of the centre on record.
The bench passed the order on the petition moved by Sabera Khatoon whose sister Shadiya Akhtar is detained at the centre. The counsel submitted that Shadiya Akhtar is not being provided proper medical care.
The court directed the respondents to file a report in the matter. The court has also impleaded DUSIB as one of the respondents. The court also directed to place on record the medical records of Shaidya Akhtar in view of the submissions of the petitioner's counsel. (ANI)
The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Waqf Board to respond to a petition by its employees for payment of salaries and emoluments pending for more than five months.
The Delhi Waqf Board Employees Association has contended that employees coming under certain categories have not received their salaries from October last year and are facing "unfathomable financial hardships".
"Counter affidavits be filed by the respondents, positively, before the next date of hearing," said Justice Jyoti Singh in the order passed in the matter recently. The court also sought the stand of the divisional commissioner-cum-revenue secretary of the Delhi government on the plea.
Advocate M Sufian Siddhiqui, appearing for the petitioner, argued that the aggrieved employees have been robbed of their right to a dignified life in a brazen infraction of their fundamental and constitutional rights. (PTI)