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Topic: Delhi NCR

India is becoming a Republic of RWAs. It’s the most powerful elected body

Civics textbooks need an upgrade, considering that RWAs enforce laws they’ve devised themselves – no matter if it violates a fundamental right or two.

SC to hear plea to allow BS-VI end-of-life vehicles’ exemption from age-based ban in Delhi-NCR

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai & Justice K Vinod Chandran will on Monday examine whether BS VI-compliant vehicles should have a 15-year lifespan for petrol & 10 years for diesel ones in NCR.

ThePrint photos of the week: 13-19 July, 2025

In PhotosOfTheWeek, we bring you five pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists and reporters this past week.

‘No waterlogging in Delhi,’ claims CM Rekha Gupta after rain lashed parts of national capital

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday claimed that there was no waterlogging in the national capital following heavy rain in Delhi-NCR...

Noida records its 1st Covid case, a 55-year-old woman, as cases surge again

CMO Narendra Kumar says the woman, from Sector 110 in Noida, has been placed under home isolation, with her husband and help testing negative for the virus.

Mock drills to ‘Code Brown’ prep, how Delhi NCR hospitals are bracing for potential emergencies

Hospitals across the region are on high alert in the wake of escalating tensions with Pakistan since the Pahalgam terror attack.

What caused unseasonal downpour that wreaked havoc in Delhi NCR? A rare mix of weather phenomena

Delhi recorded second highest single-day rainfall for May since 1901, on Friday. The record for the highest single-day rainfall was on 20 May 2021, when it was 119.3 mm.

Coffee is an old trend. Delhi-NCR youth are obsessed with matcha now

Matcha mania has taken over the capital. The green tea drink from Japan is now the newest frontier in healthy, photogenic beverages.

In Delhi NCR, new ambulance helpline promises prompt medical response, within 15 min. How it’ll work

Private emergency healthcare provider Zenzo has collaborated with Delhi Traffic Police to operate 671 ambulances to make the region ‘emergency ready’, while also launching a ‘5G ambulance’.

IKEA comes to Delhi, opens first outsourced distribution centre in north India

Gurugram centre major milestone in IKEA’s expansion strategy in India, bringing the brand closer to customers and enhancing its ability to meet growing demand across Delhi-NCR.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.