West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma courted yet another controversy on Friday after a video of him shouting at an officer during his inspection of ghats at the Yamuna ahead of the Chhath festival surfaced on social media. The one-and-a-half minute video showed Verma threatening a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officer... The post appeared first on .

West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma courted yet another controversy on Friday after a video of him shouting at an officer during his inspection of ghats at the Yamuna ahead of the Chhath festival surfaced on social media. The one-and-a-half minute video showed Verma threatening a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officer... The post appeared first on .

New Delhi Mar 23 PTI On the death anniversary of Bhagat Singh East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday announced to set up five libraries in his constituency in the memory of the freedom fighterThe libraries will be equipped with a computer and wi-fi facility and a seating capacity of 50 people at a time They will remain open from 8 am to 8 pm I am proud to announce the launch of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Jan Library in East Delhi It is named after my idol Shaheed Bhagat Singh because he made knowledge and education a weapon to bring down the colonial British empire Gambhir announcedAccording to the BJP MP along with newspapers books on patriots who were part of Indias freedom struggle as well as those on famous Indian kings will be made available in the libraries so that people can be apprised of their historyBooks related to science current affairs will also be kept there This library will remain open from 8 am to 8 pm and will also have a computer and Wi-Fi facility so that poor children can do their school work from there the MP said in a statementPreparations for setting op the libraries have begun according to the statementShaheed Diwas or Martyrs Day is observed to pay tribute to freedom fighters Bhagat Singh Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru The three young freedom fighters were hanged at the Lahore Central Jail in Lahore on March 23 1931 PTI VA RHL

New Delhi Oct 21 PTI As India achieved the milestone of administering over 100 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses on Thursday Delhi BJP leaders celebrated by felicitating healthcare and frontline workers distributing sweets and bursting firecrackersDelhi BJP president Adesh Gupta visited a vaccination centre at Majnu Ka Tila to felicitate health and frontline workers there while North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari felicitated the staff and frontline workers at Chandiwala Hospital in ShahdaraIts a historic moment for the country Gupta said thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi doctors health workers and scientists for making the countrys vaccination drive successfulRohini MLA Vijender Gupta also felicitated the staff and health workers at a vaccination centre in Prashant Vihar and cut a cake to celebrate the featWest Delhi MP Parvesh Verma distributed 100 kg of laddus to passersby outside his residence at Windsor PlaceSouth Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri celebrated by bursting firecrackers with party workers at the Tughlaqabad Fort that was specially lit up to mark the milestone in the countrys vaccination programme against COVID-19All Delhi BJP MPs MLAs senior party office-bearers including party unit incharge Baijayant Panda Dushyant Gautam Alka Gurjar Harsh Vardhan Ramvir Singh Bidhuri participated in programmes held at various places in the national capitalThe cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed the 100-crore mark on Thursday according to the governmentIndia took 85 days to touch the 10-crore vaccination mark 45 more days to cross the 20-crore mark and 29 more days to reach the 30-crore mark according to Union health ministry dataThe country took 24 days to reach the 40-crore mark from 30 crore doses and then 20 more days to surpass the 50-crore mark on August 6 It then took 76 days to go past the 100-crore markMore than 75 per cent of Indias around 93 crore adults have received at least one dose of COVID-19vaccine while more than 31 per cent have been administered both doses according to Union health ministry officialsThe countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 and it was gradually opened to all above the age of 18 from May 1 PTI VIT DIV DIV

New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Referring to India's outstanding performance at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi on Tuesday said that it has encouraged the promotion of sports culture at every level.