With hours left until polls open on election day in the United States on Tuesday, the country, and the world, faces a nail-biting wait to know whether Kamala Harris becomes the first US woman President or Donald Trump secures a spectacular return to power after his unprecedented and at times violent campaign to overturn his...
The BJP in Delhi on Monday attacked Uttam Nagar MLA Naresh Balyan over his alleged “roads like Hema Malini’s cheeks” remark and demanded that AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal should expel the legislator for disrespecting women. Actor-turned-politician Malini, a senior BJP leader, is a Lok Sabha MP from Mathura. The BJP was reacting to a video...
Scores of BJP workers were detained by the Delhi police when they were staging a demonstration near Chief Minister Atishi’s residence demanding the immediate reappointment of 10,000 civil defence volunteers (CDVs) who were removed last year as bus marshals. The BJP workers, including the party’s Delhi president Virendra Sachdeva, were bundled into waiting police vehicles...
Delhi’s PM2.5 levels hit a peak by midnight on Diwali this year, which was 13% higher than the peaks observed last year and in 2022, a recent analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) showed. “The Diwali night this year had higher nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels that indicate high traffic congestion,” the CSE...
Twelve civilians, including two women and four teenagers, were injured in a grenade attack at the crowded Sunday Market near the Tourist Reception Centre (TRC) in Srinagar. The injured were mostly shoppers. The incident comes a day after an encounter in Srinagar’s Khanyar area, during which a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, identified by the police as Usman Lashkari,...
During his address to the Indian community in Brisbane, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar outlined four key factors behind the deepening India-Australia relationship, stressing the transformation in bilateral ties under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. “There are four reasons – PM Modi, Australia, the world, and all of you,” Jaishankar remarked as he acknowledged...
BJP MP from New Delhi Bansuri Swaraj on Sunday visited Satpula DDA Park near Chirag Delhi village and restored the Chhath Puja arrangements, which were being allegedly obstructed by AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj, saffron party’s state unit said. Swaraj criticised Bharadwaj, calling him a symbol of political hypocrisy, and alleged that he spreads lies and...
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday raised strong objections to what it alleged was a BJP-led move to evict residents living for decades in slum communities ahead of Diwali. Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia, along with party MLA and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak, visited the Gandhi Nagar slums to meet the residents who have...
Criticising the Delhi government’s approach to pollution control, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Sunday called it ‘insincere and primarily focused on maintaining visibility for the Environment Minister Gopal Rai’. Sachdeva said the pollution control was seen by Rai merely as a way to stay in the news. Pointing to the findings from the Indian...
The air quality in Delhi-NCR continued to be in the ‘very poor’ category as a layer of smog engulfed the region in the morning hours. As per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), at 7:30 a.m. the average air quality index was recorded at 328 in the national capital. While other cities in the Delhi-NCR...