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World Cup is driving up bookings for accomodations in host cities, specially where India is slated to play, thereby pushing up room tariffs, according to travel and hospitality players. Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Dharamshala are among the cities which have witnessed a surge in demand, as per booking trends of MakeMyTrip, OYO and Yatra Online.

₹209 from 1 October. The hike of ₹209 has come after two successive reduction of ₹250 (Approx) in August and September this year. In Delhi, the commercial gas cylinder price has been increased to ₹1,731.50/kg from ₹1,522.50/kg.

MGNREGA protest in the national capital on October 2 and 3, has been cancelled. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the TMC leader said, “First, they abruptly cancel special train services from Kol to Del to prevent those who were to travel to participate in protests on Oct 2 & 3, demanding 10s of 1000s of crores owed to Bengal by BJP Union govt." “Now a flight gets cancelled! Try as you might, we WILL TAKE YOU ON," Derek O'Brien further wrote on the microblogging site. TMC Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra also stated that the flights are getting cancelled from Kolkata to Delhi, after the cancellation of a special train.

TMC) MP Susmita Dev hit out at the central government over the refusal to provide special trains to MGNREGA job cardholders from West Bengal to reach Delhi and said that they were ready for the fight. Ahead of the TMC worker's protest in Delhi, Party leader Susmita Dev said, "BJP has practically declared war on the people of Bengal who want to come to Delhi to protest for their rightful dues from the Union government on October 2 and 3.

Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), an autonomous body tasked with improving the air quality in Delhi and its adjoining areas, made crucial changes to the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) last year and again in July. The new changes include strict restrictions on the plying of overage vehicles and a complete ban on the use of coal and firewood in eateries, restaurants and hotels when the Air Quality Index (AQI) breaches the 200-mark.

Delhi and the adjoining areas, had made changes to the GRAP last year and again in July 2023 in order to keep up with the changing circumstances. The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), a statutory body formed under an Act in 2021, had amended the GRAP in July last year to ensure proactive implementation of anti-air pollution steps based on forecasts up to three days in advance.

Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday gave a clarion call to all political parties and people to stand by the «deprived» people of Bengal, who allegedly did not receive their dues in MGNREGA and other schemes, and urged all to participate in the movement in New Delhi on October 2 and 3. He also claimed that the BJP government at the Centre will be ousted in the coming days and asserted that Bengal will give a befitting reply in coming days as it has given reply in 2021. «It is not a political programme but a fight for the deprived job card holders and all should join,» Banerjee said, adding «the autocratic central government will fall from power.» The job card holders and Trinamool supporters were taken by buses to New Delhi after a special train was reportedly cancelled.

Indian Railway is introducing the '14 minutes of miracle' concept for speedy cleaning of trains from October 1, starting with 29 Vande Bharat trains at their respective destination stations across the country. It will be formally launched by the Railway Ministry Ashwini Vaishnaw at the Delhi Cantt. Railway Station. Vaishnaw told reporters that the Vande Bharat trains will be cleaned within 14 minutes under the initiative to improve their punctuality and turnaround time. “It is a unique concept and happening for the first time in the Indian railways,” the minister said. The initiative is based on the concept of '7 minutes of miracle' at various stations such as Osaka, Tokyo, etc.

German ambassador to India Dr Philipp Ackermann took to microblogging site ‘X’ to flag a false advertising which talks of a "Mega gathering of India's Leading Boarding Schools", but features an image of the Bellevue palace in Germany - the Indian equivalent of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The image that was posted in a newspaper showed the German President's house and mentioned it was India's national capital Delhi. Ackermann in a rather sarcastic way pointed out the discrepancy and said no child would be admitted to the presidential palace.

dedicated 9 new Vande Bharat Express to the nation, taking the total number of high-tech trains to 34. The trains are already known for their accuracy in departure and arrival and the new “14-minute miracle" initiative will further help them to maintain that accuracy.

PTI. As per police, the accused used to work in a bank three years ago and has experience installing QR codes for UPI payments at shops and private vendors.

As per a report in the Times of India (TOI), all the individuals who fell victim belong to the same village in Punjab and have collectively lost a whopping Rs 2.3 crore. The accused, Popinder Singh, posing as a senior HR executive from a reputed Ottawa-based company, duped these youths with promises of lucrative employment opportunities in Canada. Palwinder Singh, a resident of Ghaziabad and one of the victims, had initially met Popinder during an event in January.

Delhi Police has cracked a high-profile jewellery shop theft case in which jewellery worth Rs 25 crore was said to have been stolen, making it one of the biggest robberies reported in the national capital recently. The Times of India has detailed the investigation leading up to the arrest of the criminals. As per the report, cops scanned about 5,000 active mobile phone numbers that were active around the site when the theft occurred.

TMC has arranged special buses to ferry nearly five thousand MGNREGA job cardholders to Delhi for their scheduled protest programme next week against the alleged withholding of funds by the Centre, a party leader said on Saturday. Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee announced on Friday that his party would make alternative arrangements for transporting its supporters to Delhi for the October 3 protest programme, accusing the BJP of creating roadblocks after the request for a special train was denied. «As we were denied a special train, we have made alternate arrangements for special buses to transport the MGNREGA workers to Delhi.

Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday described electoral bonds as «legalised bribery» and claimed that, as their fresh tranche opens on October 4, it will be a «golden harvest» for the BJP. The government on Friday approved the issuance of the 28th tranche of electoral bonds that will open for sale for 10 days beginning October 4. The decision comes ahead of assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram.

Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) could see a significant development by 2027, with budget airlines potentially operating international flights in addition to domestic ones from Terminal 1 (T1). Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) has initiated discussions with airlines to establish an international wing at T1, and more clarity on this expansion is expected by December of this year, as per a TOI report. The plan revolves around utilizing an area between the forthcoming expanded T1, set to be completed this winter, and the runway nearest to the Dwarka side.

British High Commission has written to Delhi Police informing them about fraudulent visa agents who operate in and around Delhi and have been assisting customers in Haryana, Gujarat and Punjab to obtain visas on forged documents, said the police on Friday. A case has been registered in the matter, the police added. «The British High Commission in New Delhi has identified fraudulent visa agents that operate in and around Delhi, assisting customers in Haryana, Gujarat and the Punjab. It is thought this agent is connected as part of a wider organised criminal network.

ANI. 1. As per Northern Railway, Train Number 04591 from Ludhiana-Chheharata Special JCO from 28.09.2023 to 30.10.2023 shall be short terminated at Mananwala while 04592 Chheharata -Ludhiana Special JCO from 28.09.2023 to 30.10.2023 shall short originate from Mananwala.

2023 saw 38 million sq ft of office space taken up in the top six cities, nearly matching the absorption during the same period in 2022, indicating strong momentum despite global uncertainty, as per a Colliers study. The southern cities accounted for nearly 60% of office space demand in the first nine months of 2023. Among the top six cities, Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR led the way, comprising half of India's total office space demand.

New Delhi: Tata Group-owned Air India is expected to consolidate its presence and increase efficiency across 100-plus routes, or over 50 origin-destination pairs, to fully utilize the group’s network of four airlines. According to Competition Commission of India’s assessment on deployment of both air traffic and seat capacity for 2022-2023, Air India and Vistara has shared presence in 48 origin-destination pairs, or on 96 routes.

Justin Trudeau was ‘high on drugs’ and his plane was ‘full of cocaine’, a former India's diplomat Deepak Vohra has garnered attention for an allegation he made about the Canadian PM amid an ongoing international diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killing of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Deepak Vohra, a former diplomat, accused PM Justin Trudeau, 51, of flying to India for the G20 summit in a plane full of cocaine and hiding in his room for two days.