カテゴリー: Delhi
A widow claiming to be descended from royalty was believed, and even given a dilapidated palace to live inFor 40 years, stories about India’s most mysterious and reclusive royal family persisted among foreign correspondents in New Delhi. Few were grant…
Government responds to judges criticising it over emergency smog levels in DelhiThe Indian government has said it intends to use hydrogen-based fuel technology to help combat pollution, as Delhi was once again enveloped in “severe emergency” levels of …
Government responds to judges criticising it over emergency smog levels in DelhiThe Indian government has said it intends to use hydrogen-based fuel technology to help combat pollution, as Delhi was once again enveloped in “severe emergency” levels of …
India’s climate movements are growing, but a unique political deadlock in the capital is creating a destructive inertiaFly out of Delhi and you can see it: a band of grey smog, so thick it blots out the sun. Tune in carefully and you’ll hear it, too: a…
Indian city suffering record levels of poor air quality, partly caused by stubble burningThe illegal burning of crop stubble by farmers in India, one of the biggest causes of the record-breaking pollution that has enveloped Delhi over the past week, is…
Public health emergency declared after air pollution levels go off the charts It was meant to be a ceremony to bring good health and prosperity. But the thousands of women who gathered in the waters of Delhi’s Yamuna River on the city’s most polluted d…
Pollution in Delhi has reached its worst levels so far this year, at almost 400 times the amount deemed healthy. A week on from Diwali, the thick brown smog that shrouded the city after the festival has shown no sign of shifting. One local sa…
Car fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from farms have contributed to a pollution crisisPollution in Delhi has reached its worst levels so far this year, with levels rising to almost 400 times the amount deemed healthy and airplanes diverted away fr…
Air pollution in capital territory 20 times higher than WHO recommended safe levelThe residents of Delhi have already begun to forget what it is like to wake up and see the sky.Almost a week on from Diwali, the thick brown smog that shrouded the city a…
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012Anupama Chandrasekhar isn’t one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian p…
From heaving traffic and dense crowds to car-free and tranquil: that’s the vision for Chandni Chowk. But is it achievable?The Champs Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world, but you could say the French were beaten to it by the Mughals. …
Photographers from Sydney to Brasilia capture July’s stunning partial lunar eclipseStargazers around the world have enjoyed a view of a global lunar eclipse, delighting people from Dehli to Dublin.The partial eclipse was visible in nearly every part of…