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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicDelhi Jal Board

Topic: Delhi Jal Board

Fight over Yamuna a poll gimmick? River can be revived, but there can’t be a ‘band aid solution’

Though only 2 percent of its total length, the 54 km section of the river that flows through Delhi accounts for over 75 percent of its total pollution load.

‘Babus make us do household work without pay.’ Workers protest, demand fair wages from Delhi govt

A crowd of nearly 500 workers from 11 different departments of the Delhi govt waited in anticipation outside the national capital’s Secretariat, demanding job security.

18-yr-old arrested for stabbing a man in Delhi after his friend was crushed under a water tanker

The man, an auto driver, survived the attack. He had intervened after spotting the accused, his friends vandalising the tanker which had run over his friend. Tanker driver is absconding.

Delhi’s tanker mafia begins from Jal Board borewells—pipes, profits, politics

Delhi's private tanker mafia is exploiting every avenue to meet the rising demand. Siphoning water from Jal Board is less risky than extracting it from Yauma or diverting it from canals in Haryana.

Delhi court directs ED to supply copy of chargesheet to accused in DJB money laundering case

The ED has alleged that bribe money generated from corruption in a contract issued by the DJB was ‘passed on’ as election funds to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi.

ED files 1st chargesheet in Delhi Jal Board case, names 4 individuals & 1 company as accused

The Enforcement Directorate alleges that bribe money generated from corruption in a contract issued by Delhi Jal Board was 'passed on' as election funds to AAP.

From 2017 to now, a look at the DJB case that’s spelling fresh trouble for Arvind Kejriwal & AAP

Kejriwal has skipped another ED summons, this time in case related to misappropriation of funds in Delhi Jal Board contract. ED says main suspect funnelled bribes to AAP as 'election funds'.

Arvind Kejriwal skips ED summons in Delhi Jal Board money laundering case

The ED had summoned Kejriwal for questioning Monday in a money laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the DJB, making it the second such case against the Delhi CM.

Delhi police files FIR against unidentified man in Keshopur borewell death case

The case has been registered under IPC Section 304(A), death by negligence, at Vikaspuri police station after the victim's body was recovered around 3 pm Sunday.

How choked drains in Haryana threaten to disturb ‘water supply’ to President’s Estate, PM House

DJB tells NGT Haryana’s ‘neglect impacting Yamuna water & situation could lead to water crisis in Delhi, affecting plants that supply water to residences of President, PM’.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.