CM Rekha Gupta, along with her family, during a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI NEW DELHI Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss ongoing development initiatives in the Capital, including the ‘Clean Yamuna’ campaign, infrastructure and... Read More

People catching fish as toxic foam floats on the surface of a polluted Yamuna river near Kalindi Kunj in New Delhi on Monday. | Photo Credit: – In a bid to rejuvenate the Yamuna river, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has invited tenders for 13 of the 34 proposed decentralised sewage treatment plants (DSTPs) aimed... Read More

India’s Lakshya Sen. File. | Photo Credit: AP Indian pair of Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde made a winning start but Lakshya Sen bowed out of the French Open Super 750 badminton tournament after suffering a straight game defeat to Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen in the men’s singles opening round here on Tuesday. Lakshya, who... Read More

A record 4.80 crore passengers have travelled across South Central Railway both inward and outward in regular and special trains in as many as 1010 trains operated during the festival season between September 21 and October 20. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, SCR General Manager Sanjay Kumar Srivastava highlighted that the zone has... Read More

While it is easy to say age is merely a number and laud celebrities who wear their wrinkles and silver strands with grace, closer to home, many of their peers remain unseen and unheard. Hoping to do their bit for septuagenarians, an informal group who called themselves Hearts Ever Young (HEY) based out of Cooke... Read More

Policy is only as strong as the credibility of the data it rests on. In recent months, two failures in India’s environmental monitoring systems have raised disturbing questions of governance — Delhi’s Real-Time Air Pollution Network and Lucknow’s National Ambient Noise Monitoring Network. Both were launched with fanfare, but their scientific weaknesses erode not only... Read More

When the Taliban recaptured Kabul in August 2021, after two decades of insurgency, Pakistan viewed it as a tactical victory. Imran Khan, then Prime Minister, famously said the Afghans had “broken the shackles of slavery”. But the Taliban’s return emboldened the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is organisationally distinct from, yet ideologically aligned with, the... Read More

The Twenty20 party on Tuesday announced 25 candidates for the forthcoming local body elections in Ernakulam. A meeting of the party executive committee at Kizhakkambalam held on Tuesday announced the list of candidates for 21 wards in Kizhakkambalam grama panchayat. The candidates for three divisions in Vazhakkulam block panchayat and Vengola division in the Ernakulam... Read More

Picture for representation. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu In January, the Supreme Court directed the Union government to enact a comprehensive law to stipulate the rights of domestic workers and set up a committee to look into setting up a framework for it. The Court directed the committee to submit a report in six... Read More

Farmers and members of Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana protesting outside the residence of the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Collector on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Farmers in Marathwada have begun protesting against the Maharashtra government for its failure to keep its word on the disbursal of ₹32,000-crore flood relief package. The Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS) on Tuesday... Read More