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Delhi and Pune ranked 11th and 21st among 404 cities across 58 countries, according to TomTom Traffic Index's global top 25 list. However, the congestion level in Delhi during 2021 was 14% less than 2019 while in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune, the level dropped by 18%, 32% and 29% respectively, according the report.

A statement issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday stated that visitors will be allowed to see the Gardens only through advance online booking.

Gehlot was arrested under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in July last year. The ED had earlier raided Gehlot, his company Aman Hospitality Private Limited (AHPL), some other firms of the Ambience group, director in the company Dayanand Singh, Mohan Singh Gehlot, and their associates.

The second electric bus of Tata Motors has arrived in Delhi and will soon be flagged off, they added. More buses are likely to join the fleet soon. Chief Minister Kejriwal had on January 17 flagged off the first electric bus and said 300 more such buses will soon join the public transport in the city.

In order to ensure that the policy has a large-scale impact in reducing vehicular emissions, not just in the national capital but the larger National Capital Region (NCR), the Delhi government will also be making a representation to the Central Air Quality Mission (CAQM), a statement from the environment department read.

Ex- WWE superstar Dalip Singh Rana, also known as The Great Khali by his fans is joining BJP, before the upcoming Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 2022.

The DMRC MD is a nominee of the Delhi government. The DMRC has 17 directors, including a chairman. It has five nominees, each of the Centre and the Delhi government, that have equal stakes in the DMRC. The managing director is designated by the Delhi government. According to an advertisement issued by the Transport department of Delhi government, the applicant for the post of MD should have a minimum age of 45 years.

The property has been sold by Birdie and Birdie realtors, a subsidiary of Fortis Healthcare. The buyer has paid ?6.66 crore stamp duty to the state government.

The high court is presently holding court proceedings through video conferencing mode.

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Rain lashed parts of the National Capital on February 09. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted moderate intensity rain and winds with a speed of 20-40 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi.

"The new automated driving test tracks will help reduce the waiting time for applicants seeking permanent driving licences. Currently, the waiting period for taking the test is around two months," a senior Transport Department official said.

The Delhi government's Transport Department has begun the registration process for centres for retrofitting of old diesel and petrol vehicles with electric kits to convert them into e-vehicles, enabling vehicle owners in Delhi to convert their old diesel and petrol vehicles into electric vehicles.

The judge stated that it was for the central government and Air India to determine what ought to be the appropriate reduction in allowances, the scope of judicial review is very limited.

Senior advocates Colin Gonsalves and Sonia Mathur, who appeared for petitioners Shaikh Mujtaba Farooq and Lawyers Voice, respectively, said that they would file applications for the impleadment of the concerned persons to their petitions seeking registration of FIRs against the alleged wrongdoers.

IIT-PAL (IIT-Professor Assisted Learning) is an initiative of the Ministry of Education to provide free video lectures to students of classes 11 and 12. This was started to help students understand the science subjects (Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology) and to encourage self-studying in preparing for competitive exams like JEE, NEET, IAT and others.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said it will hear on Friday an amalgamation of cases between Amazon and Future Group pertaining to the dispute over the Indian groups plans to sell its assets to Reliance Retail.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim on the migrant crisis in Parliament triggered a heated clash on Twitter between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath on Monday evening.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart GL Peiris in Delhi on February 07. Both ministers discussed prospects of economic investment initiatives to strengthen the island nation and exchanged views on the fishermen issue.

Liquor vendors in the national capital are offering discounts ranging 30-40% on Indian and imported brands following the implementation of the new liquor policy. Reports suggest that liquor vendors have adopted a competitive pricing model which was not possible in the previous excise regime.

Delhi reported 1,410 new COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours with positivity rate dipping to 2.45 per cent. As per the bulletin issued by the State Health Department, 57,549 samples were tested during the last 24 hours. With this, the total case count of the disease in Delhi has gone up to 18,43,933. During the last 24 hours, 2,506 people recovered from the infection, taking the total recoveries in the national capital to 18,09,081.14 people lost their lives to the deadly virus during the last 24 hours. The death toll in Delhi due to the virus is 25,983.

This comes two days after the state unit of BJP threatened to seal liquor vends situated in residential areas, near schools and religious places if the Arvind Kejriwal government fails to shut down these shops within the next 48 hours.

he first private charging point was installed earlier this week at DDA Flats in south Delhi's Munirka, while the second one was installed next to it in east Delhi's Vivek Vihar, the BSES spokesperson said.

"Use of Drones, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and predictive policing is an integral part of our crime control and mitigation strategy. Besides this, high tech gadgets and vehicles fitted with advanced cameras are being used to conduct operations centrally from the control centre. We will expand this in a big way," said Commissioner Asthana.