Delhiites have to brace for a severe water crisis in the coming summer season. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB), which supplies water across the city, is clueless about the wastage of water in the capital.

The city government has taken no action on most of the observations of the Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin in the year 2011-12.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit presented an election-friendly `37,450-crore Budget in the Delhi Assembly on Wednesday with no new taxes imposed on Delhiites.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who aggressively raised the issue of poor policing after the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedic student, was seen on the backfoot on Monday.

Poor governance in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh has stalled two major multi-crore projects of the national capital. The Public Works Department’s (PWD) project of Bypass road in Kalindi Kunj area and another project of Transco in Noida area of Uttar Pradesh have been stalled. Senior Delhi government officials confirmed that chief minister Sheila Dikshit had personally spoken to her UP counterpart Akhilesh Yadav last year and also written letters in this regard.

Even as the Budget Session 2013-2104 of the Delhi Assembly is set to start less than a fortnight away, the city government has been able to spend around 50 per cent of the last year’s budget’s planned

Even as the Budget Session 2013-2104 of the Delhi Assembly is set to start less than a fortnight away, the city government has been able to spend around 50 per cent of the last year’s budget’s planned

With only few months remaining for the next Assembly elections, the city Congress government is all set to launch and inaugurate a series of infrastructural development projects worth thousands of crores of rupees.

Delhi health minister Dr A.K. Walia on Tuesday said that the government has blacklisted the company PES Installation Private Limited, following the December 4 incident in which four ICU patients died due to lack of oxygen supply in Sushruta Trauma Centre. The government also terminated its contract with two other hospitals.

Further burning a hole in the pockets of Delhiites, the power regulator Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has announced another hike in the power tariff in the city.