A fire broke out in a restaurant at Delhi’s Connaught Place on Friday morning. A total of six fire tenders were rushed to the site after Delhi Fire Services received a call at 5.32am about the blaze at restaurant in the Outer Circle Connaught Place, opposite Alka Hotel. The fire occurred in a piece of […]
Gurugram: The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has launched an awareness campaign to educate people about the use of single-use plastic (SUP) items that were banned in the city from July 1, said officials on Thursday. Officials urged the residents to take part in the MCG’s campaign, while asking them to “always carry a cloth […]
In a major drive against flats being constructed by developers in violation of the approved building plans, the enforcement wing of the department of town and country planning (DTCP) on Tuesday sealed around 60 dwelling units (flats). According to DTCP officials, only a single dwelling unit is allowed to be constructed on a single floor […]
Commuters can now travel seamlessly from Gurugram to Sohna as the entire 21.65km-long Sohna elevated road has now been made available to the public after the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) opened the remaining 8.94km section between Rajiv Chowk and Badshahpur for traffic on a trial basis on Monday afternoon. The elevated road has […]
The Dwarka Expressway, which is being built to reduce the Delhi-Gurugram traffic on National Highway-8 (NH-8) by about 50%, has been delayed by at least a year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and is now expected to be ready by September 2023, senior officials in the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said on Monday. […]
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has approved a new property tax regime for the national capital residents, to bring about uniformity in taxes after the unification of the three municipal corporations. The new rates will come into effect from July 16, 2022, officials said, adding that while rates have by and large remained the […]
Noida: The irrigation department has recently surveyed and found that over 90 villages in Noida do not have tap water connection and residents are forced to use groundwater for their daily needs. The district administration is in the process of building storage tanks and getting tap water connection to these villages within this year. Of […]
Gurugram reported its highest ever peak power demand this summer on Monday when it touched 1,821 megawatt (MW) according to data available with the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) Limited, said officials on Tuesday adding that the power demand is likely to increase further next month. Officials from the state power utility said last […]
To expedite the structural audit at Chintels Paradiso, the department of town and country planning (DTCP) will hold a meeting with the experts from IIT Delhi and the representatives of the private testing agency, who have been hired for the purpose so that the exact timeline of the entire exercise can be finalised, said district […]
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has announced uniform rates for factory licence fee across the city, a move in the direction to have a common taxation regime for the entire city unlike the under the three corporations that levied different rates in areas under their jurisdictions, an MCD spokesperson said. The new rates will […]
The draft Master Plan-2031 for which public objections were invited is likely to be operational in the last quarter of the current year. Officials of the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) said that they received about 1,260 types of objections against the draft plan and a process is underway to resolve the objections in a fortnight’s […]
A committee constituted by the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has given the go-ahead for the ropeway project route that will link Mohan Nagar and Vaishali Metro stations, authority officials said on Friday. Officials said that they have also proposed another ropeway route, linking Sahibabad to Sector 62 in Noida, instead of the earlier proposed Vaishali […]
