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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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Topic: Indore

Drains to dividends: How Ghaziabad showed the way to cash in on green bonds, rewrite civic finance

A push to conserve groundwater has evolved into test case for climate finance, fiscal discipline & market credibility in urban local bodies—now more are betting on 'green' money to clean up their act.

Indore MBA student murder: Killer boyfriend ‘didn’t like her speaking to men’, blamed ‘evil eye’

The body of the 24-yr-old woman was recovered from Piyush Dhanotiya’s rented room in Indore’s Dwarakpuri on 14 February.

Slapped, expelled, raided, unheard: SC to hear if school discipline trumps child’s rights in digital age

Expelled over Instagram memes in a private account, 13-year-old takes private MP school to Supreme Court. Father alleges school raided their home, hacked into mother's account.

Indore mayor, DM’s RSS office visit spurs Oppn strike over water deaths. ‘Working for Sangh or public?’

Congress hits out at Indore administration after Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargav & DM Shivam Verma were seen visiting the RSS office Wednesday night in videos that have gone viral.

Amid water crisis, families in Bhagirathpura’s narrow lanes are hit the hardest—’no facilities reach us’

Lives of residents of these ‘galis’ now revolve around arranging for water, approaching authorities for clean supply, looking after the sick & mourning the loss of loved ones.

As Indore’s Bhagirathpura fights for clean water, govt machinery on war footing—repairs, surveys, reviews

While the administrative framework has deployed its entire force to check the water contamination crisis, the sentiment on ground is that corrective measures came a bit too late.

‘No one to pick me up if I die’: Indore’s Bhagirathpura battles water crisis, diseases, system breakdown

As contaminated water sickens hundreds in locality, hospitals are stretched, daily-wage earners lose income, and residents struggle to access safe drinking water.

Odour from taps, flood of complaints. Indore residents had pointed to foul water but no one acted

Official records of the mayor’s helpline accessed by ThePrint shows that water supply-related complaints were reported much before the health crisis broke out in Bhagirathpura.

Cracks emerge in MP BJP over Indore deaths; Uma Bharti opens front, calls contamination ‘maha paap’

MP govt is facing flak over its response to the health crisis, especially after a video showed Minister Vijayvargiya's irritable reply to a journalist over a question on the deaths.

Indore market tense amid MLA son’s diktat to fire all Muslim workers in ‘bazaar ka shuddhikaran’

'Vidhayak putra' Aklavya Singh Gaur also wants all Muslim traders to vacate rented shops in the next 2 months. The trigger for this direction seems to be a recent ‘love jihad’ case.

On Camera

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.