Articles by Vishal Kant
With broom, AAP now eyes clean sweep at Delhi’s municipal corporation polls
While broom is the symbol of AAP, the party intends to keep the larger narrative of the civic polls around the ‘performance’ of BJP-ruled MCDs over the past decade, especially the ‘garbage-crisis’ that has hit the city over the past few years due to the strike by municipal staff.
Updated on Mar 21, 2017 05:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Plan to turn Delhi’s Bijwasan, Shakurbasti railway stations into mega terminals
To reduce the rush at four major railway stations, Bijwasan and Shakurbasti stations in south-west Delhi are being developed into mega passenger terminals. These stations will mostly serve to west India-bound trains.
Updated on Feb 06, 2017 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Budget 2017: Pilot waste-to-energy plant at Delhi railway station to operate by June
Finance minister Arun Jaitley had mention the upcoming waste-to-energy plant at Delhi railway station as a pilot project on the lines of which five more plants will be developed.
Published on Feb 01, 2017 02:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Inspired by Beijing, railways going green to improve Delhi’s ‘first look’
The Northern Railways is developing green patches along the tracks approaching four major stations of the Capital. This will improve the first look of the city and give the passengers a positive and welcoming view.
Updated on Jan 31, 2017 10:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
5 MPs give over Rs 5cr from their development fund for railway stations
The local area development fund of members of Parliament (MP LAD) fund has turned out to be very favourable for the Indian Railways as five of the seven city MPs have together allocated Rs5.35 crore from their funds over the past two years for infrastructure development at different, major and local, railway stations across the city, besides augmenting civic facilities in railway colonies.
Updated on Jan 29, 2017 11:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Kofi Annan lauds AAP’s Mohalla Clinics project, suggests reforms
Former UN Secretary General writes to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, says Aam Aadmi Party government’s mohalla clinic scheme is a lesson for other Indian states for achieving Universal Health Care (UHC)
Updated on Jan 27, 2017 10:45 AM IST
Vishal Kant, New Delhi
L-G Anil Baijal’s fortnight meetings with Delhi police to focus on a theme
Delhi L-G has said that the review meetings with the police will be based on a theme and will be attended by representatives from other departments as well. The coming meeting will be on women’s safety.
Published on Jan 25, 2017 11:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Delhi L-G seeks deadline from MCDs to make waste-to-energy plants operational
The direction comes after L-G held a review meeting of the projects and environmental issues related to the landfill sites, on Tuesday.
Updated on Jan 24, 2017 11:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi:
Decade on, incomplete Old Delhi flyover faces fresh roadblocks
Two decades since it was mooted, 10 years since work started on it and six years after the deadline was first missed, construction of the 1.6-kilometre-long flyover on Rani Jhansi Road is far from over as officials try to weed out bottlenecks.
Updated on Jan 22, 2017 07:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
CBI visits Delhi govt’s info and publicity dept headed by Sisodia
The CBI preliminary enquiry has been initiated against Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and unnamed officials for alleged irregularities in awarding contract for the government’s social media campaign, Talk To AK.
Updated on Jan 19, 2017 08:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vishal Kant
Punjab polls: 100 NRIs arrive in Delhi from Canada to drum up support for AAP
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is trying to garner all the support it can get, from India as well as abroad, to win the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab.
Updated on Jan 19, 2017 11:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Delhi MCD elections to be held in April after CBSE board exams
Delhi Election Commission sources say civic polls in Delhi may be held in April third week. They said notification for the polls may be issued after the CBSE board exams. BJP, AAP and Congress are the three main contenders.
Updated on Jan 18, 2017 11:26 PM IST
Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Poll dynamics change, parties anxious before Delhi MCD elections
Rearrangement of 272 wards across three municipal corporations has made the upcoming Delhi MCD polls unpredictable, though many feel that it may give an advantage to the ruling AAP which will be contesting a civic body poll for the first time
Updated on Jan 18, 2017 01:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Kumar Vishwas joining BJP? Aam Aadmi Party rubbishes report
Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday sarcastically dismissed reports that senior party leader Kumar Vishwas is likely to join the BJP and contest in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Updated on Jan 18, 2017 12:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vishal Kant
Delhi Assembly session starts today, AAP set to target MCDs as BJP plans protest
At the two-day assembly session, the ruling AAP legislators are likely to raise issues such as the functioning of the BJP-led MCDs.
Updated on Jan 17, 2017 01:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
In a first in Delhi, Kejriwal to be seen with L-G at a public event
While former L-G Najeeb Jung was never seen with Arvind Kejriwal, the CM will be jointly inaugurating skill centres in west Delhi with the newly appointed L-G Anil Baijal
Updated on Jan 10, 2017 11:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Politics over sanitation strike goes on as streets stink in East Delhi
Even as chief minister Arvind Kejriwal hit out at critics by reminding them that the BJP ruled MCDs in the city, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari advised the chief minister of “not playing with numbers related to funds provided by the government to the civic body and announce a special package for the EDMC”.
Published on Jan 10, 2017 08:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Suspense on GST rollout hits Delhi government’s budget planning
Indirect taxes such as VAT, entertainment and luxury tax will get merged under the GST. Officials say once GST is implemented, the budget of state government would largely be about welfare proposals and hardly require any tax proposals.
Published on Jan 09, 2017 08:44 PM IST
Vishal Kant, New Delhi
No cash crunch for AAP, party collects Rs 1.3 crore at fundraiser
The Aam Aadmi Party raised Rs 1.13 crore at a dinner with city traders on Saturday, seeing almost a six-fold jump in donations from 2014 when the trade wing first held such an event.
Updated on Jan 09, 2017 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vishal Kant
Soon, passenger information system at Delhi’s railway stations on smartphones
Rail passengers will be able to monitor the arrival and departure of trains on their smartphones and tablets at five major stations in the national capital.
Updated on Jan 09, 2017 09:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant
AAP to hold ‘business meet’ to give Delhi govt’s account of performance to traders
The development comes in the backdrop of the Narendra Modi government’s decision to demonetise Rs500 and Rs1000 bank notes from November 8.
Published on Dec 25, 2016 08:59 PM IST
Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Delhi: Eight public libraries built with Swaraj Fund to be opened today
These libraries are unique in their own way as they have been put together from the citizen local area development fund, or Swaraj fund, and were taken up after people chose them as priority projects in mohalla sabhas conducted in various assembly constituencies last year.
Updated on Dec 25, 2016 09:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Jung resigns as Delhi L-G, Kejriwal calls it a ‘surprise’
Najeeb Jung resigned as Delhi’s lieutenant governor on Thursday, ending a three-and-half-year tenure marked by a bitter jurisdictional battle for the Capital with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Updated on Dec 23, 2016 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vishal Kant
Fog delays trains in Delhi, flights ‘normal’, visibility dips in Noida and Ghaziabad
72 trains were delayed, 30 rescheduled and two cancelled, owing to thick blanket of fog across the northern plains
Updated on Dec 09, 2016 11:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times |
Vishal Kant & Abhishek Anand
Train services severely hit due to dense fog in north India
About 100 inbound and outbound trains were running behind schedule, ranging from four to over 30 hours, railway officials said.
Updated on Dec 09, 2016 11:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
L-G Najeeb Jung halting vacuum cleaning of roads: Kejriwal
Kejriwal said in a press conference that the clarifications sought are unnecessary and aimed at ‘stalling the initiative’. The L-G office offered no comment.
Updated on Dec 08, 2016 08:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Resolve cash crunch in 3 days: Mamata, Kejriwal serve ultimatum to govt
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee on Thursday addressed a rally against demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes organised by the Aam Aadmi Party.
Updated on Nov 17, 2016 06:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
AAP plans rally for Delhi traders miffed over Centre’s currency ban
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to attend a rally organised by Aam Aadmi Party at Azadpur Mandi.
Published on Nov 16, 2016 02:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi
Demonetisation: Kejriwal says PM Modi using his mother for politics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his nonagenarian mother for politics by letting her stand in queue to exchange old currency, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday.
Updated on Feb 17, 2020 10:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , New Delhi
Vishal Kant and Dhrubo JyotiVegetable vendors in Delhi hit by withdrawal of currency notes
Updated on Nov 09, 2016 01:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vishal Kant, New Delhi