Delhi Minister Gopal Rai Blames Crackers After AQI Climbs To 462

NEW DELHI: Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Friday said that the capital’s air quality had deteriorated due to some people deliberately bursting firecrackers and rise in stubble burning. The national capital woke to a hazy morning. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the city’s air quality remained in severe category. It said that the Air […]

Diwali Bonanza: Delhi CM Announces Portal to Help Global Shoppers Buy Online; Khan, Lajpat Included

DELHI: In a first of its kind, CM Arvind Kejriwal announced a Delhi bazaar Web portal on Wednesday to help Delhi businessmen from small and big markets showcase their products globally and help shoppers revel in purchasing their favourite picks from national capital’s iconic markets. The portal would be ready by August next year. He […]

In Multi-Cornered Fight, “Poacher” Prashant Kishor’s New Test Begins In Goa

NEW DELHI/GOA: There’s a degree of abandon and risk with which Prashant Kishor, a highly-ambitious and highly-rated poll-strategist, has switched sides after advising several political parties since 2014, so much that he has become a poacher for one and trotter for another. This, as India gears up for a political showdown in 2022 election battles […]

In Multi-Cornered Fight, “Poacher” Prashant Kishor’s New Test Begins In Goa

NEW DELHI/GOA: There’s a degree of abandon and risk with which Prashant Kishor, a highly-ambitious and highly-rated poll-strategist, has switched sides after advising several political parties since 2014, so much that he has become a poacher for one and trotter for another. This, as India gears up for a political showdown in 2022 election battles […]

CISF personnel apprehend fake job scammer at IGI Airport

New Delhi: The CISF official on Sunday said that they had busted a job scam racket and held a person in this connection from the Terminal 3 area of the Indira Gandhi International Airport. A senior CISF official said that on July 5, at about 3 pm their surveillance team observed suspicious activity of a […]

Lovely resigns as Delhi Congress chief, blames Kharge on tie-up with AAP

Lovely has also mentioned that the Delhi Congress Unit was against an alliance with a Party (AAP) which was formed on the sole basis of levelling false, fabricated and malafide corruption charges against the Congress Party and in turn, whose half of the cabinet ministers are presently in jail on corruption charges. Despite that, the Party made a decision to ally with the AAP in Delhi.

Congress criticises Mamata Banerjee for offering only ‘2 seats’; TMC alleges ‘double game’

New Delhi: Tensions flared within the INDIA bloc in West Bengal as Congress clashed with Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee over seat allocation, exposing the underlying rift between the opposition parties. West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury dismissed Banerjee’s offer of two out of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats, asserting their ability to […]

Explainer: Why political parties oppose one nation, one election

Proponents of ‘One Nation, One Election’ argue that it could significantly reduce election costs by consolidating state and national elections

India launches its first mission to study Sun

NEW DELHI: India launched its first mission to study the Sun onboard Vikas-engine powered PSLV from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, 10 days after it successfully sent a mission to the moon. Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Aditya L1 follows similar missions by space agencies of Europe, the United States, Japan, and China. This mission is […]

72 lakh poor people did not get ration in Delhi: BJP

The BJP has alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi has failed to give rations to 72.78 lakh ration cardholders in November and December.