Five days into the BRT trial run and hopes of it being a success in the

The entire road network adjoining the corridor is congested as motorists try to find an escape route

No Conflict Of Interest, Insist Experts As questions are being raised vigorously by citizens' groups, traffic experts and MPs across party lines over the controversial BRT corridor, what seems to have slipped notice is that the patrons of the IIT-Delhi department behind the concept include bus manufacturing majors Volvo and Tatas.

After spending several gruelling hours under a hot on Thursday sun monitoring the traffic flow on the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand Bus rapid transit system (BRTS) corridor, officials worked hard to sort out glitches, especially after chief minister Sheila Dikshit's veiled threat to scrap the new bus corridor. Delhi's transport minister Haroon Yusuf, who made a personal visit to the stretch, said that efforts were being made to rectify the loopholes and that the things would further improve in days to come.

The Planning Commission has given

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday said no child will be denied admission in primary schools run by it due to non-submission of birth certificate. Provisional admission is being granted to every child seeking admission in primary schools after accepting an affidavit by the guardian, subject to submission of birth certificate later on, civic body officials said.

A day after a Noida school student died during a morning physical exercise session, Newsline takes a look at how several institutions are redrawing their schedules for morning assemblies. At Delhi Public School-RK Puram, Kirti Narain, a student, says fainting is common

Frequent power cuts coupled with unbearable heat, Delhiites had a tough day on Wednesday as electricity demand shot up to 3158MW. Due to low frequency in northern grid, less than standard 49 hz, as the neighboring states overdrew the electricity, power failed around 50 times during the day, Delhi Transco officials said. The situation is likely to remain same at least in the next few days even as there will be a marginal fall in temperature, as predicted by the Met department. Officials said the power cuts would continue till there was no considerable fall in temperature.

The Delhi Grain Merchants Association on Wednesday threatened to stop purchasing fresh stocks of food grain if the state 'government continued its raids in shops. DGMA president 0 P Jain warned that their decision not to buy fresh stocks might result in spiralling prices due to grain scarcity. Jain said food grain traders were being targeted in the name of hoarding despite "prices being under check." "We cannot be blamed for scarcity and increase of prices of food grains in coming days as the government does not want us to keep stock," Gupta said.

The government has decided to widen the road at Press Enclave and acquire land near Chirag Dilli village by covering the drain to ease traffic on the Bus Rapid Transit corridor. The decision comes after three days of traffic nightmare on the 5.6-km stretch. Delhi Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta said the government is also looking at the possibility of building underpasses for traffic headed rightward along the corridor, leading up to Chirag Dilli intersection.