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The invisible backbone of India’s medical tourism. Translators are friends & fixers

More than 5 lakh foreign patients came to India for treatment last year. The country's ambition to become a medical-tourism hub is sustained by a workforce that largely operates in the shadows.

Building fire in Delhi’s Tughlakabad was ‘arson’, monetary row with resident behind conspiracy, cops say

A minor girl apprehended & 3 held. Probe reveals accused intended to set fire to a building resident's scooter, but the blaze spread to other vehicles & the rooms, killing 3 & injuring 8.

Govindpuri fire: Man went back into burning building to save family, found dead with grandma & sister

His other sister & mother are undergoing treatment for critical injuries. The family used to stay on third floor of the five-storey building in Southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri.

Delhi’s firefighters under strain. City has only 71 stations, 1,030 vacancies, old equipment

The DFS’ total sanctioned strength stands at 3,633 posts, of which 1,030 positions are vacant. For the critical 2,367 operational roles, 552 posts are vacant.

Muslim mattress sellers saved lives in Delhi hotel fire. They’re asking why CM hasn’t visited

Mattress sellers Riyazuddin and Armaan Mansuri are fielding YouTubers, TV channels, and politicians. But they’ve noticed a conspicuous absence: ‘Hindu organisations reach wherever Muslims are involved, then why not here?’

13 foreign nationals died in Malviya Nagar B&B blaze, MEA in touch with embassies & families

Majority of the foreign nationals who died were medical tourists from Africa, Central and West Asia, and one from South Asia.

Delhi’s deadly fires: 3 case studies, same script—swift arrests, big charges, bail & crawling trials

Malviya Nagar fire follows those in Karol Bagh hotel in 2019, Mundka building in 2022 & Vivek Vihar newborn hospital in 2024. Cases remain mired in delays & accused out on bail.

Malviya Nagar B&B registered in ‘manager’s’ name, owner tells cops he didn’t oversee daily affairs

Police are now on the lookout for Jay Mishra, whom Lovkesh Bajaj identified as the ‘account manager' overseeing the B&B establishment located at Hauz Rani.

Malviya Nagar fire: Deaths mostly due to asphyxia, those who jumped off top floors in critical condition

The critically injured sustained severe pelvic and spinal injuries from the fall, apart from smoke inhalation-related lung damage, says a doctor.

As Malviya Nagar fire captures headlines, a look at how fires have plagued Delhi in the last 8 years

The cause of most fires in Delhi has been electrical short circuits and cooking gas cylinder blasts. Several major incidents in illegal factories.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.