New Delhi: Two squalls with wind speeds of up to 120kmph battered Delhi on Tuesday night, uprooting trees and snapping branches across the city and triggering at least 42 calls to Delhi Traffic Police, nearly 40 to the PWD control room and eight to NDMC.Even on Wednesday morning, fallen trees and hanging branches continued to…
New Delhi: Deep below the city’s crowded roads, historic neighbourhoods and bustling commercial hubs, nine tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are at work across Delhi.These TBMs are machines used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross-section. The macines can bore into a variety of soil and rock strata. They can be designed to bore through anything…
New Delhi: With recent CNG price hikes pinching auto-rickshaw drivers resulting in many of them refusing to go by fare meters, commuters in the city say daily travel is increasingly turning into haggling matches on roads. Between May 15 and 17, Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) raised CNG rates in Delhi twice — from Rs 77.09…
