With Delhi reeling under acute shortage of water, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday sought an early solution to the Munak canal dispute with Haryana and said she would seek Prime Minister’s intervention on the matter.

The comments by Ms Dikshit came a day after Haryana turned down Delhi government’s request to provide additional water to the national capital to overcome the water crisis in the city.

As many as 708 challans were issued and eight vehicles impounded by the Transport Department of the Delhi Government on Monday, the first day of its week-long drive to check compliance with regard to pollution under control (PUC) certificates by all types of vehicles.

Stating that the drive would continue up to June 18, the Department said 30 enforcement teams have been deployed in various parts of the city to check the PUC certificates.

With a huge wheat harvest across North India and massive pile-up of stocks in godowns not resulting in a drop in the price of flour, the Delhi Government has decided to step in yet again with the sale of its “Bhagidari atta” for providing people with wheat flour at a reasonable price.

Delhi Food & Civil Supplies Minister Haroon Yusuf, who had a meeting with several mill owners on Monday, said the Government would be reintroducing its wheat flour scheme through a tender process for which the request for quotation (RFQ) would be issued in a week or 10 days.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said despite her government's initiative and the money spent, rain water harvesting in the Capital has not had satisfactory results.

Ms. Dikshit advocated simplifying the procedures of providing policy support, financial assistance and technical guidance to the citizens and residents' welfare associations to ensure that harvesting becomes a major initiative to improve the ground water levels in the city.

A special eight-day drive will be launched by the Delhi Transport Department beginning this Monday to ensure adherence to pollution control norms by commercial and private vehicles.

Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said on Thursday that 30 mobile teams of the enforcement wing would be deployed at all entry points to the city and major intersections. A special holographic sticker will be pasted on the front side of the pollution certificate of the vehicle after examination.

Such advertisements are everywhere, argues Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

Responding to a letter issued by an anti-tobacco advocacy group on depiction of indirect tobacco advertisements at various metro stations, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has said such advertisements are everywhere and “the rules cannot be different for the metro”.“We do not permit advertisements of tobacco and alcohol products within metro premises, but the letter sent to us was in regard to surrogate advertising,

From identification of fewer than targeted families to not lifting adequate ration supplies from godowns to non-submission of utilisation certificates, the report of the Comptroller and Auditor Gen

Commission says these are meant for shared public use

A day after a Right to Information query revealed that the Planning Commission had splurged over Rs. 30 lakh on renovating toilets at its headquarters in Delhi, the Commission disputed that it was wasteful expenditure. The Commission said the amount was spent on a set of six “toilet blocks” with multiple seats and facilities for the differently-abled. It also described the renovation as “routine maintenance,” required in an old building having an antiquated plumbing system.

Monsoon preparedness and door-to-door collection of waste were the dominant themes discussed at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Tuesday. However, discussions on repayment of the loan due against the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi were postponed till the next meeting.

Based on the population and areas falling under their jurisdiction, the loan amount of over Rs. 2100 crore due against the erstwhile MCD will be shared by the three newly-constituted corporations of North, South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations.

“At this rate, the Capital will be gasping for breath by 2021”

Delhi's air quality is worsening and if urgent action is not taken we will have a serious problem at hand, warns Centre for Science and Environment's latest report card. “The summer of 2012 is a grim reminder of the severe and worsening multi-pollutant crisis. CSE's analysis of the official air quality data shows that ozone, the new predator in town, has exceeded standards on all days in May and most days in April this year in areas including Civil Lines and the airport and on 80 per cent days in residential colonies including R. K. Puram,” notes the report.