Questions the right to grant provisional regularisation without prior scrutiny or verification of their existence

Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin has issued a show-cause notice to the Delhi Government seeking a clear answer as to whether provisional regularisation certificates could have been granted to unauthorised colonies without verification of their existence or any kind of scrutiny.

Three or more couples sleep under one roof in around 1.37 lakh houses while more than nine people live together in a single house in over two lakh dwellings in the national capital.

These and other statistics are part of the 'Census of Houses, Household Amenities and Assets 2011' released recently by the government. According to official statistics, six to eight members live under one roof in 25.6 per cent of 33,40,538 households in the city while six per cent of the houses

Expert body to oversee if the experiment could be a success

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Government to allow four-wheelers and three-wheelers to ply on the 5.7-km-long BRT corridor on an experimental basis under the observation of an expert body to see whether these vehicles could be run on the stretch along with buses.

Almost 97 per cent of the commuters on the Capital's bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor, barring those using red beacon vehicles and buses, have strongly demanded an urgent review of the corridor to ensure safe and smooth traffic flow, reveals a new survey by the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry (ASSOCHAM). However, it also reveals that while buses account for only 2 to 2.5 per cent of the vehicles using the corridor,

Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijay Kumar Malhotra on Thursday accused the Delhi Government of “unscrupulously” spending “the hard-earned money of the people of Delhi” on the Bus Rapid Transit corridor, which the Delhi High Court now wants it to review.

In a statement, the senior BJP leader said his party has been objecting to the construction of BRT corridor from its very inception but due to the rigidity of the Chief Minister, precious public money was spent on its ill-conceived project.

Demand for proper security and cleanliness in trains

Reacting to the Rail Budget presented by Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi in Parliament on Wednesday, Delhiites welcomed the announcement of new trains from the Capital to various locations while stating that an increase in fares was long overdue.

With reference to the series titled ‘Scrap the trap’, you have claimed that ‘people want their road back’. However, do the people here include cyclists and bus commuters or only car/bike users?

According to the Census 2011 data on houses, household amenities and assets released on Tuesday, Delhi’s population growth slowed down between 2001 and 2011, as compared to the previous decade.

Latest Census reveals high-end technology is common in the Capital and households have greater comforts than ever before

With a greater number of its households possessing television sets than radios and transistors, with more families being connected to the Internet than to landline phones and with more people having scooters and motorcycles than bicycles, Delhi is now truly on the path to a major transition going by the latest figures revealed by the Census of India 2011.

After recording a staggering 47 per cent growth in population between 1991 and 2001, Delhi's decadal pace of population growth has slowed down to 21 per cent, with two of its nine districts, New Delhi and Central, registering even negative growth, the Census of India 2011 has revealed. It also shows how construction activity, displacement and rehabilitation of slums, and commercialisation of residential areas has led to significant demographic changes in Delhi.