AAP launches ‘Mission 2025’ ahead of Delhi Assembly elections

New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi...

‘More women should join the Indian Army, defence forces’

New Delhi: Defying the general perception that...

Challenging times for both Mahayuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra

New Delhi: The Maharashtra Assembly elections will...

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Mukul’s entry energises BJP Bengal Cadre

The entry of Mukul Roy into the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal has not only re-energised the party’s cadre, who were lacking the...

FSSAI focuses on ease of doing business

Further strengthening Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for ease of doing business in India, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the...

16 years on, nine Indian artefacts still in Singapore museum

Nine artefacts of national importance sent to Singapore with temporary permits by the Ministry of Culture are yet to return to India, though 16...

Air India disinvestment gets flight ready

The process of disinvestment of the debt-ridden national carrier, Air India, has started, and is no longer confined to the files. Several discussions have...

Only three Indian brands among the ‘most attractive’

Over 200 brands headquartered in the Delhi-NCR have made it to the top 1,000 list of attractive brands, prepared by TRA Research, a “Brand...

Tourism Ministry all set to launch Incredible India 2.0

The Ministry of Tourism is working on an elaborate plan to tap the enormous potential that India has to become a major global tourism...

Proposal to sprinkle water from choppers ‘impractical’

Environmentalists have termed the Delhi government’s proposal to sprinkle water from choppers or any other aircraft across the city to arrest dust pollution, as...

Air pollution set to rise in Delhi this winter

As winter sets in, Delhi is set to witness rising air pollution levels. The lack of effective implementation of the Supreme Court’s order on...

Inland water routes battle inaction

The development of inland waterways, considered to be one of the most important projects for the Ministry of Shipping, has been moving at a...

In Gujarat, AAP will contest one-third seats

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to contest in only one-third of the seats in Gujarat for the Assembly elections in the state...

Mukul Roy all set to embark on Bengal yatra

Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mukul Roy, who resigned on Wednesday from all his party posts and the Rajya Sabha citing a culture of...

Flight operations from Terminal 2 get delayed

Scheduled to start from this month, flight operations from Delhi Airport’s newly renovated Terminal 2 are unlikely to begin before mid-November as several airlines...

Love-snooping on the rise as couples take help from sleuths

Many couples in the capital, married or otherwise, after failing in love, are turning to private detective agencies to spy on their partners and...

App-based cab operators harass commuters

Lack of regulation of app-based private cab aggregators in the national capital has left both cab drivers and commuters at the mercy of these...

Turmoil in TMC over Mamata’s style of functioning

Several senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, including some MPs and MLAs, are unhappy with party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “style...

E-waste in India is going to informal sector

India produces an abysmally high amount of e-waste every year and due to the lack of effective implementation of the Extended Producer’s Responsibility (EPR)...

‘Bengal government couldn’t give proof of trouble during immersion’

One of the main reasons why the Calcutta High Court struck down the West Bengal government’s recent order restricting immersion of Durga idols on...

Auto-rickshaws flouting rules, but going scot free

Most auto-rickshaw drivers in the national capital openly flout the permit conditions laid down by the Delhi government’s Transport Department, but still go scot...

‘No fly list’ will allow airlines to clip wings of unruly passengers

The much awaited “no fly” list for disruptive and unruly passengers travelling by air in India has been unveiled by the Ministry of Civil...

Civil aviation ministry will revive 400 airstrips

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has decided to revive around 400 under-served or unserved airstrips within the next decade, connecting all regions of the...

Right to Privacy verdict is unlikely to impact sting operations

The recent verdict of a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court that termed the Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right under Article 21...

‘Over 13 million work as bonded labourers in India’

Over 13 million people in India work as bonded labourers, which include children and women. Also, about 15 million children work as child labourers...

India’s gold imports have seen major rise since Feb

India’s gold imports in terms of quantity have seen an exponential rise since February this year with an average growth of over 200% compared...

‘Lack of resources ailing Railways’

Over 200 “consequential train derailments” had happened in the past three years, in which 333 persons had lost their lives till early August this...

Mamata faces flak for idol immersion curbs

Prevailing “social conditions”, “administrative ease” and “prevention” of any untoward incident are what sources in the West Bengal government have cited for a clampdown...

Darjeeling schools still shut, students worried

Parents and students of over 45 residential schools in the hill district of Darjeeling in West Bengal are in a quandary over the future...

Cables, garbage block Delhi’s drains

Electric and telecom cables, and garbage deposits are the main reasons why Delhi’s drains get blocked every monsoon, causing waterlogging in many areas, according...

We are stopping exploitation of parents by schools: AAP

Opposition parties here have questioned the Delhi government’s recent announcement of taking over the management of over 400 private schools in the national capital...

AAP shifts from constant confrontation to governance

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has shifted its strategy from engaging in confrontational politics to focusing on governance in Delhi. According to party sources,...

Delhi has abysmal conviction rate in hit and run cases

Though almost 20,000 lives are lost in the country annually in hit and run cases, conviction in such cases remains at a bleak 25-30%,...

Defence veterans want MoD to define ‘martyr’

The Ministry of Defence does not have the definition of a “martyr” in its official records. This has been revealed by the Ministry in...

Depression, thirst for revenge driving teenagers to Blue Whale suicide game

A feeling of being ignored and a sense of failure are making several teenagers across the world fall prey to the horrifyingly dangerous and...

Boeing, AIESL start AME apprenticeship

The Ministry of Civil Aviation, in association with Air India’s engineering wing, Air India Engineering Service Limited (AIESL) and Boeing, jointly launched an apprenticeship...

‘Riot-hit Basirhat will not be the same again’

The riot-hit Basirhat, some 50 km from Kolkata in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, may be limping back to normalcy, but with the...

Mix of amity, fear is ‘new normal’ in Basirhat

•  Amid the communal tension in the Basirhat region, Raja, the Hindu owner of a small cycle repairing shop in the Muslim dominated area...

Riots have left Basirhat communally polarised

The recent communal violence in Basirhat has led to massive polarisation along religious lines, resulting in a deep divide between Hindus and Muslims in...

Boy blamed for Facebook post is decent, say villagers

As the charred remains of the modest house of the 17-year-old boy, who allegedly put up a blasphemous post on Facebook, stand witness to...

Medical tourism market is growing in India

The medical tourism market in India has seen a growth of 22-25% since 2014, driven by rising costs of medical treatment in developed countries...

Over 700 key projects held up for want of environmental nod

Over 700 important projects are pending environmental clearances from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change since the last three years, but the...

Delhi Traffic Police uses social media to connect with people

The Delhi Traffic Police has started using social media to enable people to reach out to them with complaints. Important information and real-time messages...

Crackdown on cow smuggling triggered Basirhat violence

The crackdown by the Border Security Force (BSF) on the illegal, but lucrative, business of cow smuggling along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s...

‘Police knew Basirhat would happen’

Roopa Ganguly, actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from West Bengal and newly appointed Rajya Sabha member, spoke to The Sunday Guardian on the sidelines...

Rioting was organised, well-coordinated: Basirhat residents

Residents of the communal violence-hit Basirhat sub-division of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district said that the mobs that went around attacking members of...

Smart devices face malware threats

With over six billion smart devices being used across the globe, people are increasingly at risk from malware targeting their connected lives. Smart devices...

Students allege discrepancies in NEET results

Several students who appeared for the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on 7 May...

Mamata accused of appeasement politics

Opposition parties in West Bengal and most prominently the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have slammed the Mamata Banerjee government for indulging in “appeasement politics”....

Delhi Golf Club yet to apologise to Meghalaya maid for ‘racial discrimination’

The Delhi Golf Club is yet to issue a personal and formal apology to the governess from Meghalaya who was asked to leave the...

Delhi Food and Civil Supplies officials indifferent to corruption

The Public Grievance Commission (PGC) of Delhi has raised questions about the sincerity of the officials in the Food and Civil Supplies department of...

Gorkhaland agitation fuels demand for other new states

The renewed protest for a separate state of Gorkhaland in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal has spurred various organisations to press for their...

Nirbhaya Fund halved due to non-utilisation

The Ministry of Finance has cut down almost half of the Rs 1,000 crore fund that had been earmarked under the Nirbhaya Fund since...

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