Delhi – NCT

From February 13, at least 60 lakh documents — including Mughal emperor Shah Alam II’s 19th Century farman, partition decrees, and property papers dating back to 1870 — will be available free of cost to the public, with the launch of the Delhi government’s ‘e-abhilekh’ website. Touted as a “first-of

Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari has said that works worth Rs 50,000 crore have been sanctioned for road projects around Delhi. He said, these will immensely improve the air pollution in the capital

The Delhi government is starting a 10-month-long campaign to help students connect with “constitutional values”. The programme, which will run in government as well as private schools, will start on July 1. Students from classes VI to XII in all government and private schools will be required to

A new digitised museum that brings to the fore some unknown and interesting facts about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as a narrative from his childhood days, to the trials of the personnel of the Indian National Army (INA) — a force Bose had put together to fight the British — is ready for

Students planning to apply in the Delhi University (DU) will have more opportunities to look forward to in the upcoming academic session, 2019-20, as the varsity’s academic council (AC) has decided to introduce 30 new courses, at both the under graduation and the post graduation level, in around 20

A larger space for children to play and learn — that’s the big change workers at Delhi’s new anganwadi ‘hub-centres’ are most excited about. With 101 such hub-centres inaugurated earlier this week, the idea is to combine resources, workers and helpers from three-four anganwadi centres to create a

The South Delhi municipal corporation (SDMC) is all set to open the Wonders of World Park at Rajiv Gandhi Smriti Van on January 20. The park, spread across six acres and located close to the Sarai Kale Khan Interstate Bus Terminus, will have replicas of all the seven wonders of world, including the

Union Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(I/C), Giriraj Singh inaugurated a Multi-Disciplinary Training Centre (MTDC) of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) at Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat in New Delhi on Thursday. Samadhan is an industrial training institute set up on

An advanced portable ventilator has been developed in AIIMS Delhi, by a neurosurgeon and a robotics engineer this year. The device, equipped with a tablet, has been successfully tested. “The home version of this ventilator will cost around Rs 35,000 as there is no need of a tablet and can be

After devising nasal filters to keep out PM 2.5 particles, a team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, has now come up with Pollution Net — a nano-fibre mesh that will help with indoor pollution by preventing the entry of pollutants inside homes. The product was launched at the IIT

Read here about how strangers came forward to help the needy..... Six months after their mother, a passer-by, was killed in a shootout between two gangs on a busy road in North Delhi’s Sant Nagar, the ailing father of Shruti Sharma, 15, and her brother Dheeraj, 14, lost his battle with chronic

In June this year, Rahul Patil (18) cleared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test and got admission in MBBS at AIIMS. Hailing from a Dalit family, with eight siblings and parents who work as construction labourers at JNU, the exam was tough to crack. “I worked very hard, I’m the only person in