Greater NOIDA: The National Capital Region (NCR) will get a new destination in form of a public aquarium at Greater Noida, on the lines of international masterpieces like Atlanta’s Georgia Aquarium, Dubai’s Mall Aquarium and Japan’s Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. Names ‘The Blue Planet,’ it will be built over approximately 100000 square feet area by Delhi-based [...]

New Delhi: The Delhi government has banned all realty sales through transfer of General Power of Attorney, GPA, with retrospective effect from October last year. The move comes after the Supreme Court’s order last October that no sale deed will be registered if it is through a GPA transfer. As per October 2011 judgement, the [...]

New Delhi: Barely couple of days before Delhi MCD elections is to take place, Delhi’s Indian National Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit admits that there is an anti-Congress mood here too post party’s debacle in the recent assembly elections. “Well, there is a anti-centre and Congress mood after recent assembly elections. We have our own [...]

Shipra Mall, the largest mall in NCR and a one stop destination for entertainment and leisure will be organizing the biggest flash mob in India with the youth of The Art of Living organisation to commemorate our country’s 63rdRepublic Day on January 26, 2012 between 1 to 2 pm at Shipra Mall. 700-1000 youth is [...]

The legend of Delhi Metro, its Chief E. Sreedharan, hung up his boots on Saturday after putting Delhi on the world Metro map. The 79 year old Sreedharan had tenure of 16-years with Delhi Metro since 1995. The iconic ‘Metro Man’, re-defined the way people in Delhi travel by constructing a modern transport system in [...]

The concept proposal of implementing Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) in three important corridors in the NCR, Delhi-Gurgaon-Alwar, Delhi – Sonepat – Panipat and Delhi – Ghaziabad – Meerut has been granted in-principle approval. Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath said “high speed connectivity between the regional centres of NCR and Delhi will make the physical [...]

The earthquake that hit India and Nepal with the epicenter in Sikkim has taken a toll of 9 lives in Sikkim, 4 in West Bengal, 7 in Bihar and 5 in Nepal. Around 100 people are reported to be injured. Tremors have been reported from the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, [...]

Sikkim has been hit with two earthquakes and the state is bracing for after shocks. The India Meteorological Department (IMD), Delhi, said that the quake occurred at 6.10 pm with its epicentre near North Sikkim-Nepal border. The first quake was of magnitude 6.9 and the other of 4.8 magnitude. The epicenter is Magan, 88.2 degree [...]

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has announced new parking charges which are effective from 8 Sept 2011 onwards. Car parking rates at stations other than Patel Chowk and Vishvidyalaya are Rs 10 for up to six hours, Rs 15 for up to 12 hours and Rs 25 for more than 12 hours. For Patel Chowk [...]

The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission yesterday announced a 21.77 per cent increase in power tariffs. DERC is citing 100% increase in cost of purchasing power for Distribution Company (discom) over few years. As per DERC, tariff order for 2011-12, the per unit cost of power upto 200 units of consumption has been hiked from Rs [...]