Новости за 31.08.2015

More than seven months after the Supreme Court pulled up the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and directed it to expedite the execution of the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), the project seems to have hit a road block.

Cops probing the murder of an MNC engineer, who was shot dead in his car near NTPC crossing in Sector 24 on Sunday, have decided to examine footage from all the CCTV cameras on the 150-km stretch between Rohtak and Noida.

The Allahabad high court on Monday directed the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), UP's principal secretary (Department of Industry), Noida Authority, Greater Noida Authority and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority to file counter affidavits in response to a PIL seeking direction for audit of earning and expenses of the three authorities by the CAG.

A proposal to connect the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) with the Yamuna expressway has hit a roadblock.

Yadav Singh, the suspended former engineer-in-chief of the three Authorities in Gautam Budh Nagar, is among 83 Noida officials facing demotion with effect from Tuesday.

A scuffle broke out between a Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) team and local residents protesting against an eviction drive in Kaushambi on Monday.

Amit Mohan Prasad, UP's principal secretary (agriculture), made his maiden visit as the Akhilesh Yadav government's first nodal officer for Gautam Budh Nagar on Monday.

Residents and shopkeepers in Sector 48 staged a daylong sit-in on Monday against the residents' welfare association's move to install gates and barricade the area, which blocked access to the main road that leads to sectors 46, 47, 99 and 100 including Barola village. RWA members, meanwhile, claimed the step was taken because of security reasons.

A 70-year-old man was found murdered in his house in Brij Vihar on Monday.The victim, Subash Chand Jain, a wholesale clothes trader in Delhi's Chandni Chowk, used to live alone in the house.

The Gurjar community in the NCR refused to support Hardik Patel, the patidar community leader of Gujarat who is demanding reservation for his community, on Monday.

Dengue claimed its first victim in the city with the death of a 64-year-old woman.The woman was admitted to a private hospital last Sunday and she died on Monday.

The department of town and country planning will hold a meeting with DLF and Ansal on Tuesday to discuss development of public infrastructure like schools, creches, post offices and police posts in Sushant Lok, Palam Vihar and DLF phases 1 to 4.

Residents of Wembley Estate, a township in Sector 50, discovered bloodworms in their drinking water a day after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued a notice to MCG for poor water quality.

The interrogation of ASI Raj Singh, who was recently arrested for allegedly amassing illegal assets worth Rs 4 crore, has revealed that he had taken foreign tours without informing his department.

A two-judge bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court has given six weeks to the state government to reply to a petition that has challenged its two previous orders on 10% reservation of seats for the economically weaker section (EWS) in private schools of Haryana.

HUDA has installed over 25 streetlights on a two-kilometre-long stretch between Subhash Chowk and Bhaktawar Chowk near Sohna Road.

Nine out of the 20 ambulances of the two city government hospitals are broken down and non-functional.

Four men caught harassing women or making snide remarks and gestures were detained in various parts of the city on Monday by policewomen in plainclothes as Gurgaon's first all-women police station set out on its maiden assignment.

Residents of Suncity in Sector 55 have opposed the revised plan to construct buildings in the area marked as 'undetermined (UD) use', which the developers sent to the district town planner (DTP) for approval.

Be prepared for non-availability of fuel across state on September 15 with the state petroleum traders association deciding a close down on the day.

In a run-up to the crucial panchayat polls in UP, Samajwadi Party ministers received yet another perform-or-perish diktat from party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday. Addressing party functionaries and local crowds at the government function in Mau, Mulayam repeated—for the third time in two months—that he had received less than satisfactory feedback on performance of ministers in the incumbent SP government.

Taking a dig at prime minister Narendra Modi’s radio broadcast Mann Ki Baat, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Monday that while the PM could get away with a promise to do away with job interviews for junior posts in government appointments, the Samajwadi Party faced criticism for suggesting appointments should be merit-based instead of on the basis of entrance examinations.

Continuing his letter-a-day streak to the NDA government, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday petitioned Union health minister JP Nadda to open a cancer hospital in district Chandauli.

Women and Child Development ministry’s Rapid Survey on Children (RSOC) released recently showed 23 lakh children in the state are “extremely malnourished”. Figures from the state nutrition mission, however, said only 1.58 lakh children in the state fall in the extreme category. There is huge gap in central and state assessments.