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DM directs action against those who damage gas pipeline

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 07:10 AM IST

DM of Gautam Budh Nagar warns of legal action against entities damaging IGL gas pipeline during construction work, in line with Centre's guidelines.

Before any road construction, digging or other works, it is required to make coordination with IGL officials so that the pipeline is not damaged/affected. (HT Photo)

ByHT Correspondent, Noida

Noida: Fire breaks out at food packaging firm, no casualty

A preliminary probe revealed that in the morning, when workers arrived at the factory and turned on the AC, a short-circuit occurred, triggering the fire

The chief fire officer since food packaging items such as plastic were stored in the building, the fire gave rise to thick smoke that filled the whole building. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 07:00 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Ghaziabad constable suicide: Third suspect arrested for blackmail,extortion

The suspect revealed during questioning that they shared and spent money extorted from the cop to meet their daily expenditure

In his video clip, the constable said that he was upset due to the ongoing extortion and blamed the three suspects for it. He also said he had no other option but to end his life. (Representational image)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 07:02 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Ghaziabad

Noida traffic police charts out traffic plan for Kanwar pilgrims

Elaborate arrangement are being made to regulate traffic movement, additional traffic police personnel will be deployed at Noida Sector 14-A

Kanwariyas or, the Kanwar Yatra pilgrims while returning from Haridwar usually travel via Meerut, Ghaziabad and Noida and continue through Delhi and Faridabad towards their destinations. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 01:29 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Noida

Noida: Police head constable among two held over corruption charges

A video of the incident surfaced on social media following which the police personnel was suspended and arrested

The head constable was posted as a court clerk in the office of assistant commissioner of police/special executive magistrate 2 in Sector 6, Noida. (Sunil Ghosh)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 06:56 AM IST

ByAshni Dhaor, Noida

Ghaziabad gets ready to plant 1.1 million trees today; but no increase in forest cover since 2017

Ghaziabad district aims to plant 1.1 million trees in annual drive. Despite past efforts, forest cover stagnant since 2017. Government plans 365 million trees in UP.

Despite undertaking plantation drives on such a large scale every year, the district’s forest cover has shown no increase since 2017, said officials quoting Forest Survey of India data. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 06:58 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Noida: UPPCB points out rainwater harvesting system in parks

The move came following an environmental activist apprising various local government bodies about issuance of tenders for rainwater harvesting in parks of Noida

The rainwater harvesting in parks, instead of rooftop rainwater harvesting, involves the risk of polluting the aquifers with fertilisers and the sewage treatment plant (STP) water used in the parks, say environment activists. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 06:54 AM IST

ByMaria Khan

Greater Noida restaurant owner, waiter stabbed by two customers over delay in serving salad

The duo asked for salad and when it got slightly delayed in getting served, they allegedly attacked the waiter with a knife.

Other staffers and customers at the restaurant nabbed one of the two suspects while the second one got away. (Representational image)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 06:52 AM IST

ByAshni Dhaor, Greater Noida

GB Nagar: Residents question irregularities at district hospital

Residents said some medicines were unavailable at the hospital and critical patients were being referred to other facilities at the last moment

The policy of charging for vehicle parking will be reconsidered while other issues highlighted by the residents and functionaries of Samajwadi Party will also be looked into, the DM has assured. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 06:46 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Noida

Work on ₹80 crore STP to begin soon in Greater Noida

Once built, the sewage treatment plant will ensure that no untreated wastewater is dumped into drains or Hindon river

As of now the sewage of dozens of societies located in Greater Noida West goes into drains polluting Hindon and Yamuna rivers. Due to non-existence of STPs in this area, the sewage of these societies is getting dumped into drains or vacant areas. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 06:44 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput

Dogged by civic issues, residents threaten to lock up office of Greater Noida authority

The RWA representatives took out a march as a protest from parts of Greater Noida to the authority office in Knowledge Park 4 to raise their demands

Federation of Residents Welfare Association, Greater Noida, said that they are gearing up for intensifying their protests if their concerns are not addressed soon. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 06:18 AM IST

ByMaria Khan

Greater Noida: Man and his two relatives stabbed for messaging neighbour’s wife

A case under sections 118 (voluntarily causes grievous hurt) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of BNS was registered.

During heated arguments, Sonu’s relatives Amit and Prince intervened and tried to pacify the fight, but the issue escalated, and Prajapati took out a key ring with a small knife attached to it from his pocket, and stabbed Sonu, Amit and Prince multiple times, said police. (Representational image)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 01:07 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Greater Noida

Noida: History-sheeter held after shoot out with cops

The suspect fired at the police team with an intention to kill them. Police fired shots at him in retaliation and he sustained a shot in the leg, officers said.

The Sector 24 police was checking near the Chaura just when the person was seen coming on a black motorcycle. As police flagged him down, he first crashed into the police barrier and then started fleeing. (Representational image)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 06:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

UP govt allocates ₹25 crore for repair work of GIMS hospital

GIMS director said the structural flaws in the basement pose a huge risk to the five-storey hospital building where thousands of patients come every day

GIMS is one of the biggest government medical institutes in western Uttar Pradesh, but is marred by structural defects in its basement that causes it to be flooded, said officials. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:46 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Greater Noida

ADM directs 46 schools to complete admissions under RTE within a week

In the current academic year, of the 5,061 seats allocated under RTE in private schools across four phases, only 2,500 students have been admitted so far

While 61 schools had been directed to attend the review meeting over the delay completing admissions under Right To Education (RTE) Act, 15 skipped it. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:44 AM IST

ByAshni Dhaor, Greater Noida

Noida authority to rope in consultant to make city clean and green

The last date for application submission by interested consultants is July 24, and the authority will open tenders once all applications are submitted

To keep the city clean and green, the consultant will review existing practices of sanitation and provide all technical inputs/advisory support to Noida. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:42 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Noida

Ghaziabad constable’s suicide: Women admit blackmailing with rape case threat

Police arrested the two women on Wednesday for allegedly abetting the police constable’s death and also for extorting money from him

The on-duty constable, a native of Bulandshahr, allegedly shot himself with his service rifle at Muradnagar municipal council complex on Tuesday evening and left behind a video clip narrating his ordeal. (Representational image)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:38 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Senior manager of Noida bank arrested for abetting suicide of woman executive

Manager of multinational bank arrested for abetting suicide of woman executive in Ghaziabad. Colleagues named in FIR. Victim faced harassment, ended life.

Police registered an FIR under BNS section 108 (for abetting suicide) at Nandgram police station and the FIR named several of the deceased woman’s colleagues, including a woman executive (Representational image)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:34 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad cop kills self after making video accusing woman friend, 2 others of extortion

The constable in the video said the trio extorted about ₹6 lakh from him in the past two years and his woman friend issued threats to implicate him in a false rape case if he did not pay them more money

The FIR was registered under Section 108 (abetting suicide) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Muradnagar police station. The two women have been arrested and charges for extortion and provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act added to the FIR. (Representational image only)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:52 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Kanwar Yatra: Curbs on light vehicles on 12 routes in Ghaziabad from July 28 to Aug 5

The latest diversion plan for light vehicles state that autos will not be allowed on the 18km stretch of GT Road from Seemapuri Border (Ghaziabad-Delhi border) to Lal Kuan (Ghaziabad-Gautam Budh Nagar border) from midnight of July 27, and no autos will be allowed on the Delhi-Meerut Road and also on the stretch from Mohan Nagar to Vasundhara flyover

The GT Road stretch in Ghaziabad will be out of bounds to light vehicles from July 28, said traffic police. (Sakib Ali /HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:42 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Ghaziabad

Six developers fined ₹35 lakh for illegal water extraction in Noida

They said the dewatering exercise was being carried out at the construction sites in sectors 153, 154 and 129 in Noida

Officials of the groundwater department said illegal extraction of groundwater poses a significant threat to the water table, which is already depleting at an alarming rate in the district. Notably, Noida’s groundwater level dropped by 9.9 metres in the post-monsoon months and 8.5 metres in the pre-monsoon months between 2017-2023. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:40 AM IST

ByMaria Khan, Noida

₹16.71 crore siphoned off: Cyber police seeks details of Nainital Bank’s Noida branch server

Police are also investigating the case from different angles, and have not ruled out the role of someone working in the bank in the server hack, as no one except bank officials had access to the server

Two teams of cybercrime branch police and one team from the computer emergency response team (CERT) are probing the case currently. (REUTERS/representational image)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Noida

School bus with 50 kids topples into fields, 9-year-old sustains head injuries, others minor bruises

Nine-year-old boy sustains head injuries as private school bus carrying 50 children falls off road in Greater Noida; driver flees scene. Videos circulated on social media.

The driver lost control of the vehicle and it ran off the single-lane road in Greater Noida’s Rabupura locality and fell into the agricultural fields on Wednesday afternoon. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:28 AM IST

ByArun Singh, Greater Noida

Noida: Membership drive for new golf course in Sector 151A to restart in August

So far, the authority has given memberships to 925 applicants, who have paid the fee in part. And there are 209 members, who have paid the fee in full. The authority has collected around ₹50 crore in membership fee so far

The project encompasses a 90-acre golf course, a 20-acre adventure sports facility, and a 10-acre heliport. (HT Archive/representational image)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:22 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Noida

Yeida to raise ₹7,635 crore funds this fiscal by selling land parcels

YEIDA requires funds to urbanise the area along Yamuna Expressway, near the greenfield Noida international airport to cater to the demands of investors

The Yamuna authority aims to earn <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>2,531 crore revenue from housing department’s plot schemes, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>65 crore from ready to move flats, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>736 crore from institutional plots, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1,642 crore from group housing plots, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>830 crore from industrial plots, and <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>501 crore from mixed land use plots, among others. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:06 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Greater Noida

Girls top Noida college's Google, Microsoft internships, with ₹1 lakh stipend

At the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, women students swept most of the lucrative internships, including positions at Google and Microsoft.

A picture showing the top 16 internships.(Reddit)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 04:38 PM IST

Written by Sanya Jain

Power poles, cables secured to ensure safe passage of kanwariyas, Muharram processions

Danger signs and caution tapes were affixed on power poles, besides fencing around unsafe transformers, said officials

Unsafe distribution transformers are being identified and covered with fences, to cut off any direct access. said NPCL officials. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 07:06 AM IST

ByMaria Khan, Greater Noida

1% of project cost to be imposed as fine on builders extracting groundwater, NGT told

As many as 33 group housing societies were found to be allegedly extracting groundwater illegally in 2023 in Greater Noida West. An environmental compensation of ₹306 crore was also levied by the committee on the errant developers

The petitioner said a minimum 5% of the total project cost should be levied on errant builders. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:52 AM IST

ByMaria Khan, Greater Noida

Greater Noida: Yeida to hire consultant for medical devices park

The consultant will be tasked to assist the authority in drawing investments, promotional activities, obtaining approvals, and project monitoring for the existing and upcoming industrial parks

The Centre approved a grant-in-aid of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>100 crore for the development of common infrastructure facilities (CIF) in this medical devices park, said Yamuna authority officials. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:38 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Greater Noida

Roads messy, four top Noida officials tasked with overseeing road cleaning

Unhappy with the lack of cleanliness, the CEO assigned one arterial road to each senior officer, including additional chief executive officer Sanjay Kumar Khatri and officer on special duty Mahendra Prasad, who will now be responsible for keeping the roads clean and free of encroachments, said officials

Noida authority chief executive officer Lokesh M (in blue T-shirt) during a cleanliness inspection in Sector 16 on Monday. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:36 AM IST

ByVinod Rajput, Noida

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