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Govt tender bars photos, videos at Central Vista

The Central Public Works Department has also issued guidelines under the head “Construction Sites for Covid-19 Outbreak” that mandate the use of PPE kits by those entering the areas.

Last week, the CPWD installed boards prohibiting photography or video recording and restricted the entry of public at the construction site for the Central Vista. (AFP)

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Updated on May 22, 2021 06:35 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Action being taken on GOM communication report, says Govt

“Action taken on the GOM report is still continuing,” the RTI response said, adding that “it maybe premature to disclose the details as it would serve no public interest.”

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.(PTI)

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Updated on May 14, 2021 04:17 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

CPWD puts up boards banning photography, curbs public entry at Central Vista site

Hindustan Times, on May 7 reported that the list of trees that will be removed for the project will include at least 20 Jamun trees that are nearly 100 years old that were planted as part of the original plan of Lutyens’ Delhi in the 1920s.

New signboards prohibiting videography and photography have been put up near the India Gate lawns where work is underway on the Central Vista redevelopment project. (ARVIND YADAV/HT PHOTO.)

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Updated on May 12, 2021 10:49 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta and Soumya Pillai

Government allows states to directly import Covid-19 aid

According to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), states can directly put in requests to missions, which will assist in providing appropriate information on suppliers and vendors in foreign countries for the purpose of placing orders for procurement directly.

A driver loads the medical supplies, which will be sent to India, at the International Humanitarian City in Dubai on Sunday.(Reuters)

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Updated on May 10, 2021 05:10 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Centre granted customs, IGST exemption on donations from abroad

For donations related to private individuals, companies and NGO’s the SOP said the missions will need to inform the Niti Aayog and the external affairs and health ministries.

As explained in PIB’s statement on Tuesday, the goods will still need to be cleared by the customs department. (ANI Photo)

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Updated on May 06, 2021 04:00 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, New Delhi

Oxygen Express trains to deliver 205 MT of oxygen - Rlys biggest single day load - to Delhi

New Delhi The national capital is scheduled to receive around 205 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) on Tuesday morning, as the Indian Railways has deployed 10 tankers on board two Oxygen Express trains — its biggest single-day load since the special operation to ferry oxygen tankers began amid acute shortage

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Published on May 04, 2021 01:08 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Delhi to get 205 tonnes of liquid oxygen in Railways’ biggest single-day load

Delhi is scheduled to receive around 205 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen on Tuesday morning as the Union ministry of railways has deployed 10 tankers onboard two Oxygen Express trains

Delhi has been facing an acute shortage of liquid medical oxygen which is critical to the treatment of Covid-19 patients battling severe symptoms. (PTI)

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Updated on May 03, 2021 09:33 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

PM house in new Central Vista given green clearance

The cost of project, which also includes a Common Central Secretariat, has been estimated at Rs.13,450 crore.

The buildings also include a Common Central Secretariat and the Special Protection Group (SPG) building. (File photo)

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Updated on May 04, 2021 04:32 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, New Delhi

Govt explores possibility of producing Covaxin abroad

The move, which is expected to increase availability of and access to vaccines, especially in the global South comes at a time when India is looking to boost domestic production of the vaccines.

A health worker prepares to administer the COVAXIN vaccine for Covid-19 to a man at an indoor stadium in Guwahati, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (AP)

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Published on May 01, 2021 01:10 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, New Delhi

Oxygen Express with 4 tankers heads to Delhi

Suneet Sharma, chairman of the railway board, said at a press conference on Sunday that so far, the Indian Railways has transported 10 tankers carrying around 150 metric tonne of oxygen.

The ministry has also asked the Delhi government to obtain more cryogenic tankers.

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Published on Apr 26, 2021 02:14 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

1st Oxygen Express to Delhi to depart from Chhattisgarh amid severe shortage in capital

Facing acute shortage of oxygen supply due to the rising number of Covid 19 cases, more states are seeking railways’ assistance for delivering Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) via ‘Oxygen Express’ trains.

The Indian Railways has so far moved 10 oxygen tankers of total 150 MT with 9 more on the move, railway board chairman Suneet Sharma said at a press conference on Sunday. (H PHOTO.)

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Updated on Apr 25, 2021 05:10 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Railways says trains won’t stop, announces 4 specials

The railway ministry on Monday reiterated that there is no crowding at stations in Delhi amid reports of migrants rushing to the stations after the announcement of the week-long curfew in New Delhi.

Over the past week the railways have planned 69 additional ‘summer special trains’ to cater to the rush being reported across stations.(Gurpreet Singh/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Apr 20, 2021 01:11 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

How long can a human run? One woman is on a quest to find out

Sufiya Khan took to running in 2017 and has already set multiple world records as she explores what the body is capable of — and spreads her message of hope and unity.

Khan set a new record on April 6, 2021, for fastest time by a woman along the Golden Quadrilateral. She covered 6,002 km in 110 days and 23 hours. (Vikas Saroha)

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Published on Apr 17, 2021 06:01 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Govt seeks details of parameters to improve ranking on global Democracy Index

The move to monitor indices and work on improving rankings precedes the release of the global index.

India dropped 10 places in the Democracy Index’s global ranking to 51st place(PTI)

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Updated on Apr 17, 2021 04:44 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Railways adds more special trains as Covid-19 curbs return

Over the past week, the railways planned 69 additional “summer special trains” to cater to the rush being reported across stations. By April 30, the national transporter has planned 133 additional trains with 88 “summer special”’ and 45 “festival special” trains.

According to railway ministry data till Wednesday, the national carrier has approved a total of 9,622 special trains and is currently running an average of 7,745 trains as against 11,283 during pre-Covid times.(PTI file photo. Representative image)

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Published on Apr 16, 2021 12:12 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Amid rising cases, demand for Covid-19 care coaches returns

The Covid-19 isolation coaches were designed to be used for patients with mild symptoms in areas where states have “exhausted the facilities” and need to augment capacities for isolation

A train coach turned into an isolation ward for coronavirus emergencies by the Indian Railways. (HT Archive)

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Published on Apr 13, 2021 09:46 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

The story of Indian Railways and its tryst with privatisation

The railways, in recent years, has been mulling ways of generating revenue through different streams, including leasing out its vast pool of vacant land and, most importantly, opening doors for Public Private Partnership

Agartala Rajdhani Special train with Tejas type sleeper coaches. Tejas is India’s first private semi-high speed fully air-conditioned train. (PTI)

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Updated on Apr 01, 2021 05:35 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Centre plans tougher security measures for 300k govt officials

This comes in the backdrop of a slew of cybersecurity attacks on government domains over the past few months.

HT in February reported about phishing emails using compromised government accounts to target groups of officials.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Published on Mar 29, 2021 09:22 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Watchdog alerts transport ministry over ‘intrusions’

This comes after a slew of cyber security attacks on Indian government’s domains over the past few months.

Last year, NHAI reported a cyber attack on its email server and said prompt action resulted in no data loss. It shut down its server then as a precaution(MINT_PRINT)

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Published on Mar 22, 2021 02:57 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, New Delhi

After power sector, transport ministry gets alert about attempted cyberattack

This comes in the backdrop of a slew of cybersecurity attacks on the Indian government domains over the past few months.

Transport ministry receives alert about cyberattack, all departments told to strengthen security infrastructure(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Updated on Mar 04, 2023 07:10 PM IST

Byhindustantimes.com, Anisha Dutta

Certificate to incentives, govt gives scrappage policy details

New Delhi: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday announced the details for the country’s long-awaited vehicle scrapping policy in Parliament, explaining that the absence of a fitness certificate will mean an automatic cancellation of registration for commercial vehicles that turn 15, and that the registration of a private vehicle will be for 20 years, with renewal requiring proof of fitness

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Published on Mar 19, 2021 12:00 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Government announces details of vehicle scrappage policy

The minister said the policy would cover an estimated 51 lakh light motor vehicles (LMVs) that are above 20 years of age and another 34 lakh LMVs above 15 years of age

New Delhi, June 01 (ANI): Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari brief the press on cabinet decisions in New Delhi on Monday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)

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Updated on Mar 19, 2021 12:34 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, New Delhi

India mulls new democracy report, freedom index by local think tank

The discussions to do this were going on before recent reports by Freedom House and V-Dem Institute downgraded India’s democratic rankings.

MEA also suggested that missions across the world could actively engage with NGO/institutes such as the RSF and V-Dem and provide them with material which will help them put “India at the rightful place on the democracy and press-freedom index, in future reports”.(Amal KS/ Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Mar 17, 2021 07:03 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Fliers without masks, not heeding Covid-19 protocols could be deboarded: Centre

This comes days after a Delhi High Court judge Justice C Hari Shankar issued a set of guidelines that empowers airline crew to offload any passenger not wearing their masks properly and to be put on a ‘no-fly’ list if they exhibit ‘stubborn reluctance’.

At present India has allowed domestic flights to function at 80% of their capacity while international flights are being operated through travel-bubble arrangements with 27 countries. (HT PHOTO).

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Updated on Mar 13, 2021 11:34 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Rajdhanis as ‘push-pull’ locos may reduce travel time by up to 90 min: Officials

The railways has readied 12 Rajdhani train rakes as push-pull locomotives to reduce their travel on major routes such as Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata by 60-90 minutes, officials aware of the matter said

Rajdhani Express train at New Delhi. (HT archive)

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Updated on Mar 11, 2021 09:52 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Niti Aayog’s SDG index launch postponed due to Model Code of Conduct: Officials

EC had announced the poll schedule for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry on February 26, following which the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) kicked in

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Published on Mar 10, 2021 04:37 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Govt considers privatisation of 90 railway stations

The Railway Board, in a letter reviewed by HT, sought the opinion from all principal chief security commissioners of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and all zonal railways on how the security infrastructure for the 90 stations should be set up.

Railways, which runs the fourth-largest such network in the world, set the ball rolling in 2019 on letting private companies run and operate certain stations in a public-private partnership (PPP) model.(Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Mar 10, 2021 07:43 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, New Delhi

Ease of Living Index 2020: Bengaluru, Shimla adjudged best cities

With PM Narendra Modi emphasising the ease of living, along with the ease of doing business, as a key policy priority, the rankings have assumed significance in shaping government policies

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Updated on Mar 04, 2021 01:09 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Mumbai power outage: Electricity regulator had raised questions on islanding system

Mumbai’s electricity provider has acknowledged the October 12 power failure in the city could have been avoided had the system survived outside grid disturbance after operationalisation of the islanding scheme

Electrical power lines hang from a transmission pylons alongside a road in Mumbai, on October 12, 2020. India’s financial capital saw its biggest power outage in decades on the day. (File photo)

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Updated on Mar 03, 2021 03:12 PM IST

ByAnisha Dutta

Officials targeted in new phishing bid via govt IDs

The attack, which took place on Monday, prompted the government’s IT departments to send out an alert the following day to large groups of officials, according to emails seen by HT.

Altogether, HT is aware of five NIC domain addresses – four with @gov.in suffixes and the fifth an @nic.in one – that have been used to launch cyber attacks.(File photo. Representative image)

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Updated on Feb 26, 2021 08:21 AM IST

ByAnisha Dutta, New Delhi

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The Central Public Works Department has also issued guidelines under the head “Construction Sites for Covid-19 Outbreak” that mandate the use of PPE kits by those entering the areas.

“Action taken on the GOM report is still continuing,” the RTI response said, adding that “it maybe premature to disclose the details as it would serve no public interest.”

Hindustan Times, on May 7 reported that the list of trees that will be removed for the project will include at least 20 Jamun trees that are nearly 100 years old that were planted as part of the original plan of Lutyens’ Delhi in the 1920s.

According to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), states can directly put in requests to missions, which will assist in providing appropriate information on suppliers and vendors in foreign countries for the purpose of placing orders for procurement directly.

For donations related to private individuals, companies and NGO’s the SOP said the missions will need to inform the Niti Aayog and the external affairs and health ministries.

Delhi is scheduled to receive around 205 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen on Tuesday morning as the Union ministry of railways has deployed 10 tankers onboard two Oxygen Express trains

The cost of project, which also includes a Common Central Secretariat, has been estimated at Rs.13,450 crore.

The move, which is expected to increase availability of and access to vaccines, especially in the global South comes at a time when India is looking to boost domestic production of the vaccines.

Suneet Sharma, chairman of the railway board, said at a press conference on Sunday that so far, the Indian Railways has transported 10 tankers carrying around 150 metric tonne of oxygen.

Facing acute shortage of oxygen supply due to the rising number of Covid 19 cases, more states are seeking railways’ assistance for delivering Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) via ‘Oxygen Express’ trains.

The railway ministry on Monday reiterated that there is no crowding at stations in Delhi amid reports of migrants rushing to the stations after the announcement of the week-long curfew in New Delhi.

Sufiya Khan took to running in 2017 and has already set multiple world records as she explores what the body is capable of — and spreads her message of hope and unity.

The move to monitor indices and work on improving rankings precedes the release of the global index.

Over the past week, the railways planned 69 additional “summer special trains” to cater to the rush being reported across stations. By April 30, the national transporter has planned 133 additional trains with 88 “summer special”’ and 45 “festival special” trains.

The Covid-19 isolation coaches were designed to be used for patients with mild symptoms in areas where states have “exhausted the facilities” and need to augment capacities for isolation

The railways, in recent years, has been mulling ways of generating revenue through different streams, including leasing out its vast pool of vacant land and, most importantly, opening doors for Public Private Partnership

This comes in the backdrop of a slew of cybersecurity attacks on government domains over the past few months.

This comes after a slew of cyber security attacks on Indian government’s domains over the past few months.

This comes in the backdrop of a slew of cybersecurity attacks on the Indian government domains over the past few months.

The minister said the policy would cover an estimated 51 lakh light motor vehicles (LMVs) that are above 20 years of age and another 34 lakh LMVs above 15 years of age

The discussions to do this were going on before recent reports by Freedom House and V-Dem Institute downgraded India’s democratic rankings.

This comes days after a Delhi High Court judge Justice C Hari Shankar issued a set of guidelines that empowers airline crew to offload any passenger not wearing their masks properly and to be put on a ‘no-fly’ list if they exhibit ‘stubborn reluctance’.

The railways has readied 12 Rajdhani train rakes as push-pull locomotives to reduce their travel on major routes such as Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata by 60-90 minutes, officials aware of the matter said

EC had announced the poll schedule for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry on February 26, following which the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) kicked in

The Railway Board, in a letter reviewed by HT, sought the opinion from all principal chief security commissioners of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and all zonal railways on how the security infrastructure for the 90 stations should be set up.

With PM Narendra Modi emphasising the ease of living, along with the ease of doing business, as a key policy priority, the rankings have assumed significance in shaping government policies

Mumbai’s electricity provider has acknowledged the October 12 power failure in the city could have been avoided had the system survived outside grid disturbance after operationalisation of the islanding scheme

The attack, which took place on Monday, prompted the government’s IT departments to send out an alert the following day to large groups of officials, according to emails seen by HT.

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