カテゴリー: Delhi
Suspect allegedly claimed to be adviser or ambassador to made-up places such as ‘Seborga’ or ‘Westarctica’Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a bogus embassy from a rented residential building near Delhi and recovered cars with fake di…
Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea that the public sphere belongs to menA couple of weeks ago, I was in an upmarket neighbourhood in Delhi for a photoshoot. The sun was already …
Extreme air pollution from farming fires meets high population density, causing substantial harm to healthThe post-monsoon period in Delhi has become a time of smog. In November, the city’s pollution index reached its highest levels, classified as “sev…
Visit to New Delhi by VP and family has to navigate tensions over visas for Indian tech workers and farmers’ hostility to lowering tariffsIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the US vice-president, JD Vance, have hailed “significant progress” in …
For over a century, poets, publishers and printers filled this Delhi district’s narrow lanes. But as profits plummet, bookshops are being replaced by kebab shopsInside one of the oldest bookshops in Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar, Rafiq Ahmad, a film critic and w…
BJP won most seats in territory that includes the capital for first time in more than 25 years, ousting AA party Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has won the most seats in the high-stakes state legislature election in India’s federal terr…
Leaders of Indian capital must tackle transport and heavy industry rather than seek quick fixes, say campaignersAs winter sets in across north India – usually around the time of the country’s biggest festival, Diwali – the air in Delhi becomes thick an…
Pollution levels in the Indian capital have soared to their highest levels this year, forcing schools and offices to close and cloaking the city in thick brown smog. In some parts of the city, a live air quality ranking by IQAir put pollution levels at…
As air pollution hits toxic levels, one proposal is to introduce a ‘smog diplomacy’ initiative between Pakistan and IndiaAs the smog descended over Lahore, people began to feel the familiar symptoms. First came the scratchy throat and burning eyes, the…
After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stalled. But the new campaign is seen as a political move without resourcesAs a teenager, Tanu Bai would burn her hands while cooking but feel no p…
Delhi chief minister had been in jail since being arrested in March in corruption case he says is politically motivatedOne of India’s most prominent opposition leaders has been granted bail after spending almost six months in jail for a corruption case…
Almost 200 killed as deluge sweeps northern India, while rain gives way to high humidity at Paris OlympicsBetween Wednesday and Thursday morning, 147mm of rain was recorded in eastern parts of Delhi by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), breakin…
Temperatures of more than 45C have left population of 29 million exhausted – but the poorest suffer mostAs the water tanker drove into a crowded Delhi neighbourhood, a ruckus erupted. Dozens of residents ran frantically behind it, brandishing buckets, …
Temperatures in Delhi have soared to record highs of 49.9C (121.8F) as authorities warn of water shortages. The India Meteorological Department (IMD), which reported “severe heatwave conditions”, recorded the temperatures on Tuesday, saying they were n…
Meteorological department examining data from Mungeshpur station amid soaring temperatures that came close to 50 degrees CelsiusRecord-breaking heat hits Delhi – in picturesAuthorities in India are investigating whether a faulty sensor may have been be…