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6 6 - 12 November, 2017 Delhi/NCR News One runway at Delhi Airport to be closed for maintenance A www.NewDelhiTimes.com ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com runway on Delhi airport will be closed for three days starting from November 7. The maintenance and repair work are the reasons behind the closure of the runway. A leading Indian English daily quoted a Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) spokesperson that “Runway 11-29 of IGI airport will remain closed for maintenance for three days from 0001hrs on November 7 to 0700hrs on November 10. The scheduled time was chosen after a careful evaluation by airport operator in close consultation with Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the airlines. Given the onset of fog season, the time was jointly agreed from the perspective of safety and operational reliability”. The closure of the runway is expected to reduce the operational capacity of the Delhi airport by 30%. Around 300 flights will reportedly be affected by the reduced capacity. Currently, the airport handles 67 flights per hour, but between November 7 and November 10, the frequency will be restricted to 45 movements in an hour. Many airlines such as Indigo and Spicejet have cancelled some of their flights. An official statement of DIAL mentioned that “During the maintenance, the airfield capacity will be lowered to 45 air traffic movements per hour. The airport operator has revised the slot allocations in consultation with all the airlines”. Government Crack Down: Revoke licences of Delhi restaurants serving hookah illegally D ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com elhi health minister Satyendar Jain has asked the police and civic bodies to immediately cancel licences of restaurants or eateries having hookah bars, either in non-smoking or smoking zone. “The state tobacco control cell has conducted several raids in various parts of Delhi, and chemical analyses of samples picked up have shown presence of nicotine in significant amount in almost all the samples. Originally they were claimed to be herbal in nature,” Jain said. “Recent notification of Government of India GSR 500(E) dated 23rd May 2017 from Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, completely prohibits use of Hookah in the T ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com smoking zones also. Therefore, Hookah Bars in any form are illegal and Delhi Police & MCD should cancel the licenses of such restaurants, eateries and hotels where such illegal Hookah bars are operating,” a Delhi government statement said. “As per the Section 4 of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), smoking of any tobacco product in a non-smoking zone is prohibited. And a Union government notification in May clearly said no services are to be provided inside smoking zones, including hookahs,” said Dr S.K. Arora, state tobacco control officer. “The new notification makes serving hookah illegal within and even outside smoking zones. So the government does not need to institute a ban to take action against the restaurants,” said Dr Arora. NEW DELHI TIMES Photo Credit : Shutterstock India breaks into top 100 on world bank’s ease of doing business index I ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com ndia has jumped to 100th place in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index, jumping 30 ranks from last year, in an endorsement of the string of reforms implemented by the Narendra Modi government. Under the ease of doing business index, a higher ranking - a low numerical value - means the country’s rules and regulations for businesses are favourable and the environment is business friendly. In its 2017 edition, the World bank ranked India at 130th position among the 190 countries. India’s impressive performance was largely due to reforms in taxation, insolvency laws and access to credit, part of measures Prime Minister Modi’s government has pushed to boost investment and jobs that would help absorb a million people who join the workforce every month. In Starting a Business, India has reduced the time needed to register a new business to 30 days now, from 127 days 15 years ago. However, the number of procedures is still cumbersome for local entrepreneurs who still need to go through 12 procedures to start a business in Mumbai, which is considerably more than in OECD high-income economies, where it takes five procedures on average. “India’s performance is not based on efforts of just one year but consistent efforts made over the last three years to continuously improve the regulatory environment of doing business,” Annette Dixon, Vice President South Asia, told a press conference. India to buy 111 naval choppers, govt clears Rs 21,738 crore project he government’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), headed by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has approved the Rs 21,738-crore programme to replace the Navy’s outdated fleet of French-designed Chetak choppers. With this, India is all set to buy 111 armed light utility helicopters, fortifying the Navy which at present is struggling to bridge capability gaps, and a majority of its 140 warships are operating without utility helicopters. The Defence Ministry-Navy combine will now issue the formal tender or RFP (request for proposal) to original equipment manufacturers for the light helicopter project, under which the first 16 choppers will be imported, with the rest 95 being manufactured in India later. Such choppers are used for several purposes, including search and rescue operations, medical evacuation, communication duties, anti-piracy and anti-terrorism operations, humanitarian assistance, surveillance and targeting. The Navy had released two requests for information (RFIs) for 123 naval multi-role helicopters (NMRHs) and 111 NUHs this August. The multi-billion dollar NMRH programme to replace obsolete Westland Sea King helicopters is yet to come up for DAC approval.
6 - 12 November, 2017 7 T Delhi/NCR News NEW DELHI TIMES Kejriwal Defamation Case: High court dismisses Kejriwal’s plea to summon DDCA documents ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com he Delhi High Court dismissed a plea of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking direction to summon records and minutes of meetings of the DDCA conducted between 1999 and 2014. Kejriwal, along with five other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, are facing a Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by BJP Union Minister Arun Jaitley. allowed to lead evidence beyond what he had pleaded in his application. During the hearing earlier, Jaitley had opposed Kejriwal’s application saying the AAP leader has been trying to delay the proceedings by filing “frivolous” pleas, including the current one. The BJP leader had filed the defamation suit against the AAP leaders for allegedly levelling “defamatory” charges against him in connection with alleged irregularities in DDCA while he was its President. Joint registrar Pankaj Gupta said it was not Kejriwal’s defence that he made the alleged defamatory statements based on the records he wanted to summon and hence cannot be T E ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com Besides Kejriwal, the five others named in the case are Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Deepak Bajpai. Delhi Police foils murder attempt on Canadian writer Tarek Fateh; arrests Chhota Shakeel’s aide he Delhi Police arrested a man quoting sources that he was hired by Chhota Shakeel to kill Pakistan born writer Tarek Fatah. Police said Naseem, 28, was on the run since June when their Special Cell booked him and one Junaid Chaudhary for hatching a conspiracy to eliminate Fatah. This is not the first time that the Delhi Police has arrested a wanted criminal for targeting the controversial Pakistani writer. Earlier this year, Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested a man called Junaid for planning to eliminate Tarek Fateh, apparently on the orders of the Pakistan-based don Chhota Shakeel. Following his arrest, Naseem reportedly told the police that he had two new killing assignments, including one from Chhota Shakeel, but was caught before he could execute either of them. Chotta Shakeel wanted him to kill a person living in Dwarka. “This person had insulted a religious book, the video of which went viral on the internet,” said an official. Tarek Fateh - a Pakistan-born Canadian writer - is known for his critical observations about the Islamic Sharia Law. Fateh is apparently on fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s radar for his critical remarks against Islam and the Sharia Law. Entry tickets for IITF to be sold in advance ntry tickets for India International Trade Fair, which starts from November 14 at Pragati Maidan, will be sold in advance at Delhi Metro stations and through the online portal of ITPO. “For convenience of the public, the sale of tickets for general days (November 18- 27) will be sold four days in advance from DMRC stations,” ITPO said in a statement. IITF will be held from November 14 to November 27. AAP government vs. Centre: SC maintains LG’s primacy in Delhi, but says can’t sit on files T ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com he Supreme Court has observed that “prima facie,” Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor has primacy in the national capital under the Constitution. Also adding that Delhi Lieutenant Governor can’t “scuttle an executive decision by sitting over a file”, as it heard pleas against the L-G being the national capital’s administrative head. The Delhi government had challenged a high court verdict that said the L-G had primacy over the elected government. Justice DY Chandrachud, addressing the government complaint that LG was holding up files, some for as long as a year, said:”LG must give reasons for his decisions, which should be taken within reasonable time.” The India International Trade Fair, ever since its inception in 1980, has evolved as a major event for the business community. It is a premier event organized by the India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO), the nodal trade promotion agency of the Government of India. The 36th edition of the popular India International Trade Fair (IITF) was held from November 14–27, 2016 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The theme of this fair was Digital India. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra is hearing petitions by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s government against last year’s High Court verdict that the LG is the administrative head of the national capital. www.NewDelhiTimes.com
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