2 girl children raped every day in Delhi in 2021: Report
Delhi was the least safe metropolitan city for women in India in the year 2021, according to the latest official data.
Battle on winter smog: Indian helmet promises ‘fresh air’
As India’s capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.
India accuses China of ‘militarisation of Taiwan Strait’
India has accused China of “militarisation of the Taiwan Strait”, in an escalating war of words triggered by a Chinese military ship docking in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port.
India claims “first of its kind” state-funded helmet will purify air
As India's capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.
Economists polled by Reuters say India's status as world's fastest growing major economy won’t sustain
India likely recorded strong double-digit economic growth in the last quarter but economists polled by Reuters expected the pace to more than halve this quarter and slow further toward the end of the year as interest rates rise.
India demolishes 2 illegally constructed skyscrapers near Delhi
Indian authorities demolished two illegally constructed skyscrapers in a wide plume of dust debris on Sunday near the capital New Delhi, razing the tallest structures ever pulled down in the country in less than 10 seconds.
India appoints CJ
Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in yesterday as India’s Chief Justice for the Supreme Court, though he is only set to hold the post for 74 days before his retirement falls due in November.
India's forex reserves drop to 2-year low
India's foreign exchange reserves to plummeted to the lowest in over two years, marking the third straight week of decline as the Reserve Bank of India, true to its word, intervened to prevent the rupee from falling past 80 to the dollar during a week when the dollar surged to over two-decade highs, NDTV reports.
India’s Adani Group contests NDTV’s defence
India’s Adani Group yesterday contested claims by New Delhi Television NDTV.NS that regulatory curbs restricted its founders from selling their stake, prolonging the battle for control of a news network seen as bastion of independent media.
Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress
A veteran leader of India’s main opposition Congress party quit yesterday, issuing a scathing resignation letter in which he blamed the scion of the influential Gandhi family for the decline of the party that dominated Indian politics for decades.
