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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
TopicNew Delhi

Topic: New Delhi

Sewage worker deaths wouldn’t happen if India worked as hard on it as it did for polio

Eleven sewage workers died in seven days despite manual scavenging being abolished years ago.

Yashwant Sinha, Shotgun on AAP wishlist for LS polls

Party opens channels for communication with the two leaders, offers to field them in the national capital.

Drunk Air India passenger ‘urinates on elderly woman’s seat, allowed to walk away’

The airline has said it is investigating the incident, which occurred on a flight Friday from New York to Delhi.

Choking Delhi is growing new lungs on its walls. And they look good too

More green spaces, including gardens built on roofs and along walls, have been offered as an answer to pollution and warming in cities.

No Kashmir, no terrorism: Why New Delhi should feel happy with Imran Khan’s speech

In his maiden speech to the nation, the Pakistan PM made a passing reference to foreign policy that lasted exactly 40 seconds.

Lutyens’ elites are now like marooned islands, rootless, adrift, irrelevant

Unfortunately, the elite of Lutyens’ Delhi continue to live in cloistered enclaves. Their defining coordinates are, English, English and English.

Complete ban on protests at Jantar Mantar not viable: Supreme Court

The apex court directed the Centre to frame guidelines on granting permissions to hold protests in Jantar Mantar and Boat Club.

Delhi L-G banned construction due to pollution. But govt departments carried on anyway

Delhi's L-G Anil Baijal banned construction activity last week when the Capital was faced with severe dust pollution. 

Two DDA officials get 4 years imprisonment for demanding Rs 6,000 monthly bribe

CBI team caught DDA officials Mukesh Chander and Satyabir Singh receiving cash from an eatery owner.

Nikki Haley is coming to town. Does she want to be US president?

The buzz is that Haley’s real purpose is to check India’s reaction to her possible candidature in the US presidential race.

On Camera

Bangladesh Army Chief wants elections. Muhammad Yunus wants to get rid of him

When the Army chief starts sounding more democratic than a Nobel Peace Prize winner, you know Bangladesh’s political theatre has become a stage for satire.

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

Centre approves development of AMCA prototype with rollout target of 2031. HAL to bid with private firms

HAL has so far been the only entity in India to manufacture fighter planes. It will now have to compete against private companies, like TATA, Adani, L&T and other interested players.

There’s an all-new N-word now. And India’s soft power has become its hard liability

India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.