Wooing traders ahead of Assembly elections, Delhi BJP on Friday promised to create a more conducive environment for businessmen in the city by simplifying the procedure for filing VAT returns and withdrawing the municipal trade licence if it wins in the polls.

A heavy posse of police and the Rapid Action Force was deployed at Khoda Colony in Ghaziabad after a minor road rage incident led to tension and clashes between two communities on Friday morning.

The Kharghar post office, which was opened in 2005 to serve a population of 26,000, is now serving more than two lakh people but with the same strength of employees who have to work amidst the crumbling infrastructure of the post office. Eighteen postal employees are working in the 526 square feet space.

Onion prices in Nashik markets plummeted as fresh “pol” onion arrived in the state. Prices dropped by an average of `900 in various Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) yards in Nashik. “The fresh onions in Nashik, Ahmednagar and Pune APMCs have affected the prices,” Nanasaheb Patil, newly elected chairman of Lasalgaon APMC told The Asian Age.

The BMC has issued a circular and appointed 28 public information officers (PIOs) with immediate effect. While 10 PIOs would serve as deputy municipal secretaries, 17 are assistant municipal secretaries and one is the mayor’s personal assistant.

The state government on Friday informed the Bombay high court that it has prepared a list of all the beneficiaries in double allotments of flats under the chief minister’s quota and it would submit the same in a sealed envelope on September 30.

Lt. Gen. Tejinder Singh (Retd) on Thursday sought quashing of bail granted to former Army Chief Gen. V.K.

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation is planning to refurbish an already existing hospital into the first multi-specialty health care facility near Jama Masjid in the capital, wherein the corporation

Under pressure from traders, the city government failed to control the price of onion.

A final-year medical student of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in the AIIMS hostel on Thursday.