Real estate developers in the national capital region on Wednesday said the central government's move to ease prices of iron, steel and cement will provide a significant relief to builders as well as homebuyers. The increasing costs of cement and steel, which had risen by up to 45 per cent in recent times, had forced the developers to pass the burden on buyers, they said.

TOI's Sandeep Adhwaryu, who lives in Aster 2, the building closest to Apex and Ceyane, the twin towers in Noida scheduled to be brought down, says a nervous neighbourhood is getting jittery by the day with no specific exercise so far to examine structural safety of the neighbouring buildings

Twelve-year-old Swayam Roy, a resident of Sector 121, became the first person to celebrate his birthday inside a coach at Sector 51 station of Aqua Line on Wednesday.

A 27-year-old man was poisoned and beaten to death allegedly by the family members of his female friend in the Dadri area of Greater Noida.

Police on Wednesday arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly posing as a Delhi Police ASI and extorting money from Delhi-NCR residents, including IT company owners, over the past year by threatening to implicate them in false police cases.

A 103-year-old woman was treated with a minimally invasive procedure to stabilise fractures to her spine at a private hospital in the city.

A high-level committee of additional CEO-level officials of all three authorities in Gautam Budh Nagar has been formed to frame a structural audit policy for highrises in the district. Suggestions from developers have been taken and will be incorporated into the policy, officials said.

Police on Wednesday arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly injuring a person during celebratory firing at a wedding in the Jewar area of Greater Noida.The accused, Aamir Khan, is a resident of the Dankaur area of Greater Noida.

District magistrate Suhas LY held talks with over 400 traders from Noida, Greater Noida Dadri, Jewar and Dankaur on Wednesday to streamline traffic movement, remove encroachments and utilise the dedicated vending zones for better management of the public spaces.

A 27-year-old man was poisoned and beaten to death allegedly by the family members of his female friend in the Dadri area of Greater Noida.

An 18-year-old was arrested on Wednesday for posting a 17-second video clip where he is seen driving an SUV at high-speed and brandishing a baseball bat on social media.

A mesh of Wi-Fi and telecom cables may have broken the fall and saved the lives of the two boys, cousins aged 9 and 12, who fell nine floors from a utility shaft while playing in the lobby outside their flat at Supertech Ecovillage 2 in Noida Extension on Tuesday evening.

In one of the biggest anti-encroachment drives in recent times, the Yamuna Expressway Authority on Tuesday razed several illegal structures, including a wedding hall and an under-construction residential colony, to clear 2.

The narrow approach road leading to Elite Golf Greens, a condominium in Sector 79, has forced its residents to jostle through traffic for daily work.

The Noida Authority has decided to cover 10 drains across the city under a pilot project, responding to years of complaints from residents living in their vicinity about pungent smell and toxic gases emanating from them.

Greater Noida Authority has imposed a fine of Rs 12.47 lakh on a contractor for not lifting garbage on time. Officials said this is the biggest ever penalty imposed in the matter of non-collection of garbage till now.

Gautam Buddha University (GBU) has entered into a partnership with a foundation in Japan to run a one-year certificate course on Japanese language and culture, a programme that aims at skilling the Indian youth for job opportunities in India and abroad.

A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly vandalising three idols of deities at a temple in Greater Noidas Sector 37. Originally from Madhya Pradesh, the accused, Vinod Kumar, is a resident of the same locality.

Ten members of a gang, operating out of Delhi-based call centre, have been arrested for allegedly cheating people of Rs 20-30 crore on the pretext of providing them lucrative jobs abroad. Police said the gang has cheated at least 150 people over the last two years.

A week after the Regional Transport Office and the traffic department directed all autorickshaws in the city to install meters by May 23, the autorickshaw drivers association on Tuesday sought a months extension for completing the process.

Children from underprivileged families who need regular treatment for Type-1 diabetes will be given insulin free of cost, doctors at the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida said on Tuesday.

Two cousins, aged 9 and 12, were severely injured after they fell nine floors from an open shaft while playing cricket in the lobby of Supertech Eco Village 2 in Noida Extension on Tuesday evening.

Gautam Buddha University (GBU) has entered into a partnership with a foundation in Japan to run a one-year certificate course on Japanese language and culture, a programme that aims at skilling the Indian youth for job opportunities in India and abroad.

Over 400 people were penalised for flouting traffic norms across Noida and Greater Noida in a day, with the majority of violations being parking vehicles in no-parking zones and riding two-wheelers without helmets, officials said on Tuesday.

Caregivers and family members of schizophrenia patients undergo a lot of stress themselves and should have the right knowledge to manage them at home, doctors said.

The sub-divisional magistrate of Jewar has informed the government that an assistant records officer suspended on January 7 this year for alleged negligence and disciplinary issues has been missing.

Three idols of deities were allegedly vandalised at a temple in Greater Noidas Sector 37 on Monday morning. Police suspect a mentally challenged person threw a stone at the idols.ADCP (Greater Noida) Vishal Pandey said as soon as the cops were alerted about the incident around 12.

During a review meeting of the routine immunisation status in Noida, health officials have been asked to prepare a micro plan to improve routine immunisation at block levels. Auxiliary nurse midwives were also trained for improving routine immunisation.

A scheme to attract companies for the states first Medical Device Park was launched on Monday. The park will come up on 350 acres in Sector 28 of the Yamuna Authority, in close proximity to the upcoming Noida international airport and the proposed Film City.

The UP excise department on Monday held a meeting with liquor traders with shops just across the border in Delhi and warned them of penal action if they were found selling more than the permitted quantity.

A 45-year-old woman and her 17-year-old daughter died while six other members of their family were injured two of them critically after a roadways bus rammed into their car in the Dadri area on Monday morning.

Heavy pre-monsoon showers lashed parts of Noida and Ghaziabad on Monday, bringing the mercury down by several notches.

Residents across the city were left without electricity for hours, some for half a day, after a bout of heavy rain and thunderstorm triggered outages that to this day hobble Noida, which the state showcases as its economic mascot.

Goods worth several lakhs of rupees were gutted in a fire that broke out in the basement of a four-storey commercial building in Nithari market on Monday afternoon.

The 20-km-long Kondli irrigation drain, originating from Delhi and passing through Ghaziabad and Noida, carries 215 million litres of treated waste water daily to be released into the Yamuna river.It is a critical sewage carrier for Noida, but for residents of Sector 11, it is a constant source of putrid stench.

The Noida Authority is planning to change its land allocation policy for group housing societies, making it mandatory for developers to pay the entire lease amount upfront to it. Until now, developers were making payments in instalments.

Several parts of Delhi and its neighbouring areas, including Noida, witnessed heavy rainfall with thunderstorm on Monday morning.

Around 30 vehicles are almost always parked outside a commercial complex in Gaur City, cutting into what should have been a 50-metre-long green belt in Greater Noida West.

The district administration with the help of Noida Mandi Samiti (market committee) members will now impose fines on vehicles parked outside the demarcated white lines.

The police have kicked off a 15-day drive, Operation Patal, from May 15 to check the use of illegal weapons in the city. Over the last week, cops have nabbed 21 people with 20 illegal arms and more than 50 cartridges.

Police arrested a 22-year-old man Sunday for allegedly doing stunts with two SUVs, a video of which has gone viral on social media. The stuntman, Rajiv Kumar, is a resident of Sorkha village.

A visit to the Yamuna Expressway and Greater Noida throws up a barrage of hoardings and advertisements on the wall, many now selling people their dream houses.

A resident of Sector Delta 1 on Saturday became one of the first people in the city to be fined Rs 2,500 for dumping garbage collected from cleaning his own house into a nearby green belt.

The Noida Authority is planning to change its land allocation policy for group housing societies, making it mandatory for developers to pay the entire lease amount upfront to it. Until now, developers were making payments in instalments.

Noida Authority has started upgrading the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway highway traffic management systems (HTMS) to intelligent traffic management systems (ITMS) with additional features for improved road safety.

The police and excise department on Saturday arrested three persons for trying to illegally transport liquor from Delhi to Noida. Cops also seized two cartons of whisky and the SUV the men Ricky Kumar, Rajan Giri and Ajit Singh were travelling in.

An investigation into a murder attempt on four family members with an overdose of Ativan, an anti-anxiety medicine, in Dankaur has revealed that the plot had been hatched over six months.

The 24-year-old peddler who fled custody at Jewar police station Thursday was arrested Saturday, Gautam Budh Nagar police said. Three cops have also been booked in the case for negligence in duty.

The black-hooded oriole and grey-necked bunting are uncommon sightings for birders in NCR. They are even rarer at the Surajpur wetland, especially in the summer months. Yet the two species were spotted in the Gautam Budh Nagar wetland this year.

The Gautam Budh Nagar police have registered cross complaints after an altercation broke out between a Noida resident and owner of a restaurant in Sector 29 on Friday night over the food bill and restaurant service, officials said on Saturday.