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MCD’s 1st pet crematorium giving dignified send offs to animals—memory garden, priest services

The facility at Dwarka Sector 29 that’s waiting to be inaugurated by Delhi L-G VK Saxena began operations earlier this month and promises to provide timely and ethical cremations.

Delhi-Dhaka ties up for debate. Are they best friends or will Chinese red line write them off

The discussion at Delhi's IIC was all about the legitimacy of the upcoming Bangladesh polls, US & India's position on Dhaka politics, and what Chinese influence means.

What happens in India’s corporate boardrooms? Not just CEO fights

A board needs to have the sense of a compass rather than the sense of a map – direction, not precision, said businessman and author R Gopalakrishnan at the launch of his 18th book in Delhi

Twinkle Khanna is fun, fearless and 50. Her Delhi book launch was all about ladies who laugh

Twinkle Khanna launched her new book, Welcome to Paradise, with author Shrayana Bhattacharya at Delhi’s Sunder Nursery.

Who robbed India’s tribes of language, livelihood? Not Vedas, Upanishads, but British laws

Padma Shri awardee Ganesh Devy cut through the jargon to expose how British-era laws shape modern India during the 7th annual lecture of the Vidhi Centre of Legal Policy at Delhi’s IIC.

Educator & watchmaker David Hare made Bengali classrooms ‘secular’ in 19th century

Pioneer of modern education in India, Hare befriended reformers such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy and conservative Hindus like Radhakanta Deb.

Congress’ Jawaharlal Darda helped Fernandes, Vajpayee. Now his biography unites rivals

The book captures Darda’s life as a Gandhian, freedom fighter, statesman, philanthropist, social worker and senior minister in Maharashtra government.

‘Narrative Ka Mayajaal’ book talk was a meeting of parents worried about the ‘ecosystem’

There is one Ramayana that is taught at home but when children step out, they learn 50 other versions. They come back and question their parents, said Supreme Court lawyer Monika Arora.

UCC to Modi’s return in 2024, Delhi book launch discusses an ‘inevitable’ Hindu Rashtra

In the elite world of Lutyens, speaking about the Upanishads was akin to having become a ‘sanghi’, said diplomat Pavan Varma at the Delhi launch of ‘Modi and India’.

Delhi durbars flaunted the might of British Crown. They also stoked flames of resistance

Swapna Liddle and Rana Safvi discovered rare photos of the durbars in DAG's archive. These are part of 'Delhi Durbar: Empire, Display and the Possession of History' exhibition.

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Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.