Vatsala Shrangi

JLN Stadium a Petri dish for sports stars

The 1982 construction that has produced numerous sportpersons is getting ready to host one of the matches during 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

Volunteers with Delhi Police help keep Sarojini Nagar safe

The team of vigilantes comprising vendors and shop owners acts as eyes and ears of the police

Traffic a giant mess on dismantled BRT

Work on this 5.8km stretch is far from over. Long jams, uneven roads and poor management of vehicles bring back memories of the traffic mess that began in 2008

‘River view’ New Friends Colony of 1980s now landlocked

The colony which started with the sale of plots for 50 paisa per square yard in 1970s is now one of the most sought after addresses of the Capital

Barriers cut down crime by 20% in South Delhi localities

In the past 45 days Delhi police barricades outside gated colonies have helped in bringing down thefts

Here is how they forecast weather at British-era Met office

The two-storey Safdarjung building is Met dept’s surface observatory where forecast for Delhi’s weather is conducted

Locals adopt ‘zero waste policy’, pilot project to begin in Mehrauli

United RWAs Joint Action group has proposed to develop a model for segregating and recycling waste into manure

Despite a large reservoir, taps run dry in Vasant Kunj

The colony which is at the tail end of the supply line faces acute water shortage despite several efforts to remedy the problem

S Delhi resident revives the art of tree climbing in cities

Verhaen Khanna is not exactly a green activist, but certainly looks like a modern age nature campaigner as he helps a group of children climb an old tree

After CBSE success, Delhi boy Siddhartha wants to top JEE

Siddhartha, a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 8 in RK Puram, is 60% visually-impaired. He has had this condition since birth and can read only from a distance of six inches.

Quiet Aya Nagar in south Delhi charms culturati

Inside the unpaved sewage-filled lanes of the village, one is surprised to find a green gated complex with 21 red-brick individual ultra-modern houses surrounded by thick green bushes. While all of these are not occupied yet, a handful of people living here include architects, budding artists and professors.

S Delhi Sporting heroes eye big wins in Rio Paralympics

Every morning Neeraj Yadav drives down from Khanpur, near Saket, to Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium to practice athletics. He is wheelchair-bound and one of the five para-athletes who have qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics Games. It is six in the morning and the team begins lifting weights to warm up. Using only his upper body, Yadav powers through the heavy weights, at times out-performing the abled athletes.

Nearly 15,000 cars got CNG kits since odd-even phase I in January

South Delhi’s women take gender out of jobs

South Delhi: Urban sprawl robs Mehrauli’s charm

Each neighbourhood and monument in Mehrauli has a story to tell, but unplanned growth over the years has left it crumbling and gasping for space

Peace a casualty of Vasant Vihar’s chaos, confusion

Home to Delhi’s former Lieutenant Governor, Tejendra Khanna, Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore and senior journalists including Karan Thapar and Aroon Purie among others, the locality has eight slum clusters along its boundaries. Illegal constructions, lack of parking space and spilling of traffic from the RTR flyover are slowly robbing the area of its serenity. However, this was not the case decades ago. The colony was developed in the late 1960s by a group of retired central government officers. They formed a cooperative housing society and applied for land to be allotted.

S Delhi’s women cabbies break the mould

With support from the police, these women have chosen a profession dominated by men

‘Bajrangi’ Salman fuels Bollywood dreams of Asola’s mud wrestlers

There is a striking feature about Asola — a Gujjar-dominated village on the southern outskirts of Delhi. Here starry-eyed youngsters are brimming with aspirations to make a mark in Bollywood like many of their brethrens who have taught stars like Salman Khan a trick or two about mud wrestling.

Delhi Police’s ‘smart’ initiatives fail to pack a punch

In a bid to improve policing and make officials more alert, the south and south-east districts of Delhi Police launched a few smartphone and web applications (apps) in the past one year. However, these are yet to yield the desired results.

Delhi wedding processions on roads trigger massive traffic snarls

Key routes including the entire Ring Road were choked with vehicles on Monday when the Capital’s traffic problems were compounded by the 20,000 weddings, the highest this season, that were held.

Greater Kailash residents get a taste of sewage water

21-year-old Kshitij Goyal, an MBA aspirant, could not appear for the entrance exam, as he fell sick after consuming contaminated water. Goyal, a resident of S-Block Greater Kailash-I, has missed a couple of competitive exams after he was diagnosed with severe stomach infection.

Green Park’s canine saviour

Beginning his day, Mittal steps out armed with a whistle, a hair brush and tubs full of food. He feeds around 350-400 stray dogs in the area including those in nearby Deer Park. Many a times he has drawn the ire of locals who complained about dog bite incidents.