The incident occured at Global Foyer Mall on Golf Course Road in Gurgaon. Delhi News Today Live Updates: A fire has been reported at Global Foyer Mall on Golf Course Road in Gurgaon. Several fire tenders are pressed into service.
Meanwhile, in an unprecedented move, three bulldozers rolled into a residential society in Noida and tore down illegal encroachments by several residents, including the family of Shrikant Tyagi. The action capped a 48-hour ultimatum issued by the Noida Authority to residents of Grand Omaxe Society, which has been in the news ever since Tyagi was arrested in August for misbehaving with a woman resident. Tyagi’s faceoff with the woman was over encroachment by the former by planting palm trees in the society’s common area. As officials arrived at the society on Friday morning, residents, particularly of ground floor flats, staged a protest in front of the main gate. Apart from official vehicles, three bulldozers and several trucks made their way into the society.
In other news, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday announced a 15-point winter action plan for curbing pollution in the national capital and decided to launch an anti-dust campaign in the city from October 6. He said the government will install 233 anti-smog guns and 150 mobile anti-smog guns to tackle the issue. According to the CM, the government has formed 611 teams to check garbage burning in open.
A fire has been reported at Global Foyer Mall on Golf Course Road in Gurgaon. Several fire tenders have been rushed to the spot.
Due to spells of rains, the national capital's Air Quality Index (AQI) settled mostly under the 'moderate' category in September, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed. An AQI between 101 and 200 falls under the 'moderate' category.
According to data, September's monthly average AQI has increased by 24 per cent in comparison to 2021, which was recorded at 78. Meanwhile, the average AQI in September 2020 stood at 118 and 111 in 2019.
"General AQI in September predominantly remains poor. However, rainfall triggers dip in AQI to 'satisfactory' and 'good' categories. September and October are the transition months. Hence, the AQI starts deteriorating," former head of CPCB's air lab, Dipankar Saha said.
Awareness campaigns must be started during the AQI transition periods, he added. (PTI)
Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has again written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pointing at the "unwarranted delay" in permitting the felling of trees and their translocation, saying this has stalled several critical development projects in the city, officials at the LG Office said on Friday. Saxena also raised the issue with Kejriwal during the weekly meeting on Friday evening, they said.
Fifteen major projects involving the felling of trees and translocation of over 8,000 trees are stalled as the government is yet to give permission, they claimed. The Delhi government, for its part, said it will “look into the matter”.
According to the officials, the LG has in his letter highlighted the wastage of public money and cost overruns due to “such unwarranted delay” and has stressed the need to fix accountability. (PTI)
Delhi Commission For Women chairperson Swati Maliwal has written to the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking its intervention on the issue of the availability of child porn on Twitter.
The commission said it has identified 14 more tweets, apart from the ones it has already flagged, involving children in sexual activities. In a letter to CBI Director Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, Maliwal has sought his urgent intervention by registering an FIR and the immediate arrests of those involved in the crime.
On September 20, the DCW chairperson had summoned Twitter India policy head and the Delhi Police Cyber Cell over tweets depicting pornography and rape videos of women and children on the micro-blogging site. Some of the accounts engaging in such acts appeared to be running a racket, wherein they sought money for providing pornographic and rape videos of children, she had said. (PTI)
The first semester of undergraduate students of Jawaharlal Nehru University will begin on November 7, a varsity official said on Friday. The varsity began the registration process on Wednesday for admission to its undergraduate programmes through the Common University Entrance Test (CUET).
"The registration process that started on September 27 will conclude on October 12," the official said.
This year the university has opted for CUET for admission to undergraduate programmes. The university offers around 10 UG courses mostly BA (Honours) in Foreign Languages and a total of 342 seats in various schools and disciplines. (PTI)
Images from the site of demolition drive of encroachment in Grand Omaxe in Noida’s Sector 93b.
Delhi Metro operations on the Blue Line will be curtailed during the first half on October 2 due to planned maintenance work on a section of the corridor, officials said on Friday. The busy line connects Dwarka Sector 21 in Delhi with Noida Electronic City, and also branches off to Vaishali from Yamuna Bank station.
"To undertake the scheduled track maintenance work between Yamuna Bank and Akshardham section on the Blue Line i.e. Line-3/4 (Dwarka Sec-21 to Noida Electronic City (NEC)/Vaishali), train services on the morning of 2nd October 2022 (Sunday) will be regulated," the DMRC said in a statement.
There will not be any direct train service from Noida Electronic City station to Dwarka or Dwarka Sec-21 stations from the start of revenue services till 2 PM, officials said. (PTI)
Trees were uprooted using bulldozers as the Noida authority carried out demolition drive in Grand Omaxe in Noida on Friday.
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Two JCBs have reached tower Alexandra A for the demolition. Police trying to remove residents as they object to the demolition drive.
Just like my property was legal, the property of the others is also legal. I am not in favour of demolition since I know very well the pain of having your house destroyed, says Shrikant Tyagi's wife Anu Tyagi.
For a few minutes, a crowd ensued as some Noida Authority officials went inside the society. The residents pleaded with them not to immediately carry out the demolition.
"Bigger balconies were given by the builder....we had paid almost 10 percent of the flat value for ground flats. We were told that everything was above board. How are we to know if there are issues.....if there is something then the Noida Authority should have taken it up with the builder first....we only found out through Whatsapp." Ginny Jindal a resident of Florence D tower said.
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