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2,800 families from slums of Kathputli Colony will stay for two years in semipermanent structures being erected in Anand Parbat while a slum redevelopment project is in progress.
Transit camps for Kathputli Colony residents coming up at Anand Parbhat
The redevelopment project, which was announced in October 2009, failed to take off after the DDA found it impossible to set up transit camps at a number of locations it had initially identified.
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Raising a toast to steam railways
The congress is being conducted to celebrate the transformation of the Rewari Steam Shed from a dilapidated structure with decaying engines into one of the finest steam locomotive sheds of the world.
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Excess use of water on blast-hit car destroyed evidence?
“Had there been a coordinated response to secure the blast site, it would have been much easier to collect samples”
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Five African nationals booked
Five foreign nationals, including a woman, have been arrested for allegedly printing fake US dollars, passports, visas and residential permits.
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11 child labourers rescued
Three child labourers were rescued from in and around the Karkardooma court complex here on Friday in a joint operation carried out by the State Labour Department and Bachpan Bachao Andolan, a non-...
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NEW DELHI,
February 18, 2012
Court recommends castration for sexual offenders
Lamenting the absence of castration as a form of punishment for paedophiles and repeat sexual offenders, a sessions court here on Friday sentenced a man who raped his six-year-old niece to imprison...
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February 18, 2012
Protect ideas
The core idea behind Intellectual Property Rights is that ‘your ideas are your property and you have every right to benefit from it'. One may or may not believe in this philosophy but there is no...
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February 17, 2012
North East comes calling
The North-east is an enchanting land, rich in art and culture. And to highlight its rich heritage, the Indigenous People Welfare Organisation, in active collaboration with Delhi Tourism and a numb...
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February 17, 2012
The fantasy maker
Designer JJ Valaya set up his eponymous fashion label in 1992. It's 2012 now, exactly two decades. A person who believes in doing things larger than life, at the finale of the Wills Lifestyle Indi...
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February 17, 2012
Better late than never!
The call from a journo friend came quite a few days ago. The friend, who is a die-hard foodie, often tells me about new eateries in the city. This time, he was pretty excited about a new establish...
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NEW DELHI,
February 17, 2012
Two granted bail in CWG case
A court here on Thursday granted bail to two businessmen accused of involvement in the Commonwealth Games TSR System contract award scam, while denying bail to a third businessman, A.K.R. Construc...
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NEW DELHI,
February 17, 2012
Develop “rapport” with common man, police told
Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna on Thursday advised police personnel to develop “good rapport” with the common man, encouraging them to co-operate with the police and share information...
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United Nations,
February 17, 2012
Delhi drill good example to follow: U.N. official
A top United Nations official has lauded efforts by authorities in New Delhi for carrying out a drill to assess their preparedness in the event of a disaster, encouraging all high seismic cities t...
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February 17, 2012
Get ready to tuk-tuk
Indian policy-makers have not yet fully recognised the role of the auto rickshaw sector for the development of sustainable public transport system in the country, a recent study published by EMBARQ...
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February 16, 2012
Music in his veins
Like many talented youngsters of his generation, Soumik Datta has all his fingers in different pies; and with élan. One among the brilliant disciples of sarod maestro Buddhdev Dasgupta, this Londo...
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Confluence of cultures
Police administration divided into four ranges
Make encroachments on floodplains punishable: NGO
Bureaucrats on the move
Staged chaos
Power to words
Table for Two: A lot on the plate!
Iran does not accept or deny Israel’s allegations
February 18, 2012
The forgotten foot soldiers
With fast moving traffic came the need for creating spaces for those modes of traffic that were not so swift and thus was born the idea of traffic moving in lanes. In countries where you are...
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February 18, 2012
The pool turns cool
Traditionally, Delhi has been a city of pools with Hauz Rani and Huaz Khas being the two most prominent ones. Once again modern lifestyle and growing disposable incomes in the metros are drawing p...
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February 17, 2012
For the record
Accidental discovery of a rare recording in a kabaadi shop led this customs officer on a path that he wouldn't have envisaged. A.N. Sharma, serving Customs Commissioner in Mumbai, ended up writing...
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February 17, 2012
Life in a non-metro
When I was a boy, old enough to find my way around the Kanpur neighbourhood I grew up in, one domestic duty that was assigned to me from time to time was to fetch milk from a nearby village, just a...
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February 17, 2012
Sweet and spicy
Istanbul had long teased my imagination. I had heard of it as glorious Constantinople, in the days of the Byzantine Roman Empire, its subsequent fame under the Ottoman's, as Istanbul. It is a city...
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NEW DELHI,
February 17, 2012
‘Police lensmen poorly trained'
“As far as photographing of the spot of assault is concerned, I see that Delhi Police photographers are so poorly trained that they absolutely do not know as to what to click and from which angle,...
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NEW DELHI,
February 17, 2012
Kak's film screened amid tight security in Delhi
Sanjay Kak's controversial film Jashn-e-Azadi was screened amid tight security at Delhi School of Economics here on Thursday despite pressure from the police, misgivings of university autho...
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February 17, 2012
Face to face
To coincide with the Year of Germany in India and its theme “Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities,” four German institutions will be coming together during the months of February an...
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February 17, 2012
A morale booster
Attitudes can be moulded and mind sets transformed by even subtle but progressive changes in the law. In July 2009, the Delhi High Court decriminalized consensual gay sex by revoking the archaic S...
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February 16, 2012
In translation, lost and found
The three-day festival of American plays organized by the American Centre, New Delhi at its auditorium was a mix fare of meaningful and serious as well as comic plays that evoked encouraging respo...
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Notices served over alleged sexual abuse at orphanage
New multi-level parking lot for the Capital
Like a scene straight out of a Bollywood movie
Hair and how
Prefects of the backstage
A spoonful of promise
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