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Buddha Jayanti Park

Buddha Jayanti Park: At Palam-bound Sardar Patel Marg via Karol Bagh opp. Assam House is Buddha Jayanti Park founded on the auspicious eve of 2500 years of completion of Buddhas Great Salvation. A plant of Bodhi-Briksha was brought from Sri Lanka and planted in the commemorating park. West of Rajpath, the Buddha Jayanti Smarak Park lies in one of the prime areas of the capital and is quite popular with the residents of Delhi. It is full of colorful flowers, green grasses and paved pathways. Though people of all ages visit the park, a majority of visitors are young couples.

Delhi blast survivors rush in to help

NEW DELHI: Bansilal Grover, a businessman had a providential escape in Sarojini Nagar blast that rocked Delhi on Diwali eve. Standing a few metres away from the spot where the bomb went off, he escaped without a scratch. He took this providential escape as an order from God to devote his life to humanity. So when the Meerut blaze victims were stretchered into Safdarjung Hospital, he decided to act. Piling up his Maruti Wagon R with food and drinking water, Bansilal was at the hospital to help the anxious relatives of the victims. And Grover was not alone. His neighbour

Delhi on high security net

New Delhi - The national capital Monday virtually turned into a fortress as security was heightened on the eve of Independence Day with people struggling through traffic jams and security drills of the police. However, people were not complaining. I was aware that there would be excessive checking at the Delhi borders so I decided to start early from office to avoid the rush. We were informed by the police in advance about the expected traffic snarls, said Vishrut Mittal, a chartered accountant working in Gurgaon, close to the national capital. Similar was the reaction from Abhishek Banerjee who works in

Delhi Metro to acquire 10 more trains

New Delhi - Commuters in the crowded national capital now have reason to smile - Delhi Metro has decided to add 10 more trains to its existing fleet within the next two years. Looking at the rousing response from commuters, we have decided to induct 10 new trains in the next two years, says Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chief spokesman Anuj Dayal. While six trains comprising four coaches each will start running in 2006-07, four more similar trains will be inducted in 2007-08. All the trains will reach us between January and April 2007 and will ply on the exiting lines, Dayal

Delhi emerges as the top State under VAT regime

NEW DELHI: Garnering finances for putting up a world-class infrastructure for the 2010 Commonwealth Games is no longer going to be a big worry for the Delhi Government. The windfall in revenue collections since the introduction of the much talked about Value Added Tax (VAT) in the Capital on April 1 last year, overshooting targets by hundreds of crores, has put Delhi on the growth powerhouse helping it emerge as the top State for performance under the VAT regime. The most remarkable part of this success story has been the turnaround from a depressing scenario three years ago to buoyant