NANGLI (NOIDA): While we are very much aware of the dangers of cigarette smoke, very few of us are aware of the danger posed by the toxic butts of the light. “I am a non-smoker, I assume that cigarette buds are made of cotton and it will degrade itself in some time. But I learnt […]
NEW DELHI: “There should not be any plan B. Plan B is for losers, because then you weren’t able to focus on Plan A”. The dialogue of the YouTube series Aspirants, in which three friends who were preparing for UPSC exams in Delhi Rajinder Nagar, highlights the demanding life of lakhs of aspirants who […]
NEW DELHI: Ensconced on a sofa seat at his austere home in Delhi’s Rohini, Samyak Jain, 26, rubs his eyes in disbelief, knowing it well he suffers from Macular Degeneration, an incurable genetic disease that partially impairs his vision. But, not without the fistful of iron grit and his mother’s writings, he combined to overcome […]
NEW DELHI: In the age of social media, we are aware of those beautiful pictures captured by drone cameras. But capturing those breathtaking, memorable moments was only part of the job as drones have slowly established their usefulness in various other ways. When the Indian government announced its new drone policy – Drone (Amendment) Rules, […]
NEW DELHI: Once a fashion designer and now a full-time traveller, Prakriti Varshney made the history of sorts as she became the first “vegan Indian woman” to climb Mt. Everest when she reached the summit on May 12. Reliving her journey, the 26-year-old said, “The final climb totals 69 kilometres through ice and snow and […]
NEW DELHI: In what could be seen as a mega push for green mobility in the National Capital, the Delhi government is planning to roll out 2000 electric buses within a year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday. The announcement came a day after The New Indian published a report about Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai […]
NEW DELHI: Two prominent education campuses of Delhi are simmering with protests again. This time they are united against the arrest of Ratan Lal, the assistant professor of the Hindu College. He was arrested on Friday for a derogatory social media post about the discovery of ‘Shivling’ inside the Gyanvapi Mosque complex in Varanasi. Lal […]
NEW DELHI: Reiterating Bharatiya Janata Party’s stand against family dominated political parties, its president JP Nadda made a scathing attack on Congress. Addressing a seminar on the threat of Dynastic Political Parties To Democratic Governance’, Nadda said, “Congress is neither national nor Indian and not democratic party anymore and has become a bhai-behen party.” Citing […]
NEW DELHI: Some two and half years ago a massive fire had broken out in Anaj Mandi in Old Delhi which had gobbled 43 lives and then another fire in Arpit hotel in Karol Bagh had claimed 17 lives in 2019. Almost the same story was repeated when a warehouse was situated between Mundka Metro […]
Sounds of wailing, strong enough to melt even the stone-hearted, reverberated at the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Mangolpuri as a stark remembrance of the horrific inferno at a four-storied building in Mundka on Friday afternoon. Distraught relatives of missing persons waited with bated breath, hoping their dear ones are not on the list of […]