In order to meet the June 30, 2012 deadline for digitalisation in the four metros, major service providers have already placed orders for about 8.79 million set top boxes (STBs) out of the total projected need of 10 million boxes for the first phase, an information and broadcasting ministry release said. HT reports.
After ignoring it for close to seven years, power distribution companies - the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) - have begun the process for implementation of 'standards of performance' regulations for prompt delivery of services to electricity consumers and payment of compensation for deficiency in service.
It has been independent India’s intellectual fountainhead for the last six decades, and it has now received a formal ‘stamp’ of approval.
A two-year wait to recruit much-needed drivers for its fire tenders turned into a nightmare exercise for the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) when a verification drive revealed that 200 of the 500 shortlisted candidates had submitted fake driving licences.
A seven-year-old boy was crushed to death by a speeding Wagon R car being driven allegedly by an inebriated driver in east Delhi’s Geeta Colony, late on Wednesday night. The driver has been arrested.
The aviation ministry has turned down a request from the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh to allow chief minister Mayawati to be driven right up to the tarmac at all civilian airports in the country.
A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has awarded a compensation of over R58 lakh to the family of a Class 1 Central government officer, who was killed in a road accident in September last year.
The "false aspersions" made by a designated senior counsel against a Delhi court dealing with the CWG graft case on Thurday infuriated a special CBI judge who complained about his conduct to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
Soon, it will be mandatory for newly-weds to get their marriage registered, failing which they will be fined. Changing its earlier plan, however, the government will now allow couples to authorise their parents to get the registration done in case they are unavailable for the same.
Three weeks after they advised the police to be on a lookout for fake Indian currency notes, which may be in circulation at the Capital’s bustling wholesale markets, the Intelligence Bureau’s (IB) warning has proved correct.
Three weeks after they advised the police to be on a lookout for fake Indian currency notes, which may be in circulation at the Capital’s bustling wholesale markets, the Intelligence Bureau’s (IB) warning has proved correct.
A rare bird named Marshall's Iora, also known as white-tailed Iora — once common in the region — has been spotted after several decades in northern India.
To ensure its budget reflects the ground reality of respective areas, the Delhi government has asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to start preparing budget estimates for the three new corporations that will come into existence in April.
A 48-year-old housewife was bound, gagged and held hostage at gunpoint by a gang of four armed assailants for more than an hour as they ransacked her residence in southeast Delhi’s Batla House on Thursday morning.
Throwing construction and demolition waste along with garbage in a normal bin may just invite trouble. The MCD has decided to tighten its noose on people who dump construction waste just about everywhere but at the designated places.