The northern state of Punjab — an agriculture hub often dubbed as “India’s wheat bowl” — recorded 1,251 farm fires on Monday, according to the government-run Punjab Remote Sensing Centre. Tens of thousands of farmers around the capital in Punjab and Haryana states burn their crop residue at the start of every winter, clearing fields […]
Levels of PM2.5 pollutants — dangerous cancer-causing microparticles that enter the bloodstream through the lungs — were recorded at 57 times above the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum on Sunday evening. They stood around 39 times above warning limits at dawn on Monday, with a dense grey and acrid smog smothering the city. The […]
The councillor identified as Ravinder Singh Negi said that he staged the protest over the incompetence of the Delhi government led by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) amid heavy rains in the capital city an Indian media outlet reported. All PWD drains are overflowing. They didn’t get it cleaned ahead of Monsoon. This has led […]
Images posted online showed vehicles crushed under giant steel girders at the departure forecourt of the airport’s Terminal 1, one of several projects inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March ahead of the country’s general election. The Delhi airport terminal is used for domestic flights only and airport authorities said all flights departing from […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to an emboldened opposition for “consensus” Monday, as parliament opened following an election setback that forced him into a coalition government for the first time in a decade. Expected in the first session, which will run until July 3, is a preview of Modi’s plans for his third term […]
Urdu Author, Critic, Dramatist and a proponent of modernist Urdu literature; Shamim Hanafi dies at 81 giving in to coronavirus in New Delhi. Urdu world is at a loss of words by this huge hiatus; created by Shamim Hanafi’s demise. Who is one of the most famous and respected; literary critics, playwrights and poets of […]
