Long lines of applicants as DDA's 2010 housing scheme opens
Long lines were Thursday seen at the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) office and various bank branches here as the sale of forms began for the civic agency’s 2010 housing scheme under which it will allot 16,000 flats in various areas of the city, officials said. Read more
DDA flats: 3.5 lakh forms sold
It’s been a week since the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) launched its housing scheme and the response is overwhelming. The authority has already sold more than 3.5 lakh application forms and its website www.dda.org.in is getting record hits. The latest housing scheme of DDA offers more than 16,000 flats to suit all aspirations and budgets. The scheme was launched on November 25 and applications can be submitted till December 24. Read more
Housing Scheme – 2010 – DDA
Your wait to own an affordable house in Delhi could end soon, with the Delhi Development Authority launching its new housing scheme next Thursday. In its biggest housing scheme till date, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is offering 16,000 flats, priced to suit all budgets, across the city. Read more
Exclusive theme restaurants wow foodies
It a lounge created completely out of ice or a cafe that resembles a forest with monkeys and other animals for company, entrepreneurs are devising innovative ideas to create theme restaurants to attract food lovers.
A welcome breather from regular restaurants and hotels, the unconventional surroundings of the theme hotels are lending them a distinctive quality. Read more
my city my games – COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010 – Saffron, White, Green, Gold
At the heart of every Commonwealth Games lies the Olympic ideal. The spirit of athletes competing for its own sake.
The spirit of the amateur athlete. And the spirit of athletes being ambassadors of their nations, bringing the varied cultures of the Commonwealth nations into closer contact. Read more
'TECHNOLOGY HAS TAKEN OVER'
Was your entry into journalism, as a trainee at The Statesman, New Delhi, by design or default?
It’s a funny story. People of your generation will probably not understand. When we were in final year at St Stephen’s in 1963, we started thinking, `After BA (in history) what?’ I did my MA but we were thinking what career we should get into. In our time, barely 20 years after the country’s independence, job opportunities were very limited. There were five or six options for boys: IAS, the Army, tea gardens, one of the British companies, medicine and law.
In the IAS, IFS was the first choice. Read more
Foreigners hurt in city firing
A group of Taiwanese documentary filmmakers touring India were shot at by two assailants on a motorbike near the Jama Masjid in Old Delhi on Sunday morning. Two-anda-half hours later, a Maruti 800 car parked near the Jama Masjid police station exploded.
Though no direct link between the two incidents has yet been made, their occurrence heightened security concerns with the Games only 13 days away.
Police denied either incident was a terror attack, blaming instead
2,396 cops fined for violating traffic rules
A 58-year-old Delhi Police Head Constable picked the wrong day to take his son’s heavily tinted Swift car -parallel strips of red and blue adorning both its number plates -out for a spin around south Delhi on Wednesday afternoon.
As the junior officer cruised along from the INA market to the Aurobindo Marg at 2 p.m., a white ambassador with blue beacon pulled him over at a little distance beyond the traffic intersection at AIIMS. Read more
Delhiites take to `smaller families, happy families'
Small families with one or two children have now become a part of Delhi’s culture.
According to a recent Delhi Government report, more than 86 per cent couples now restrict their families to not more than two children. While 53 per cent couples decided to have just one child, about 33 per cent opted in 2009 for the second child to make their families
Bridging the gap
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for the first time will run its trains for public on an under construction bridge after conducting trial run on it for about seven to 10 days.
Due to time constraints trial run for three to four weeks will not be possible on the bridge that Gammon India -which is allegedly responsible for metro crane mishap at Zamrudpur -built over the Indian Railways tracks at Okhla on the Central Secretariat-Badarpur corridor. Read more