Stills from Belly Of The Beast Adapted from Kalki Koechlin’s book, The Elephant in the Womb, Belly of the Beast overturns conventional notions of gentle motherhood from the outset. Take the title, for instance. Drawn from the biblical story of Jonah being swallowed by a giant fish in the Book of Jonah, the phrase evokes…
With rhinestones back in vogue, bedazzling parties have become NCR’s latest weekend obsession (AI Image) The city’s heat swelters outside, but inside the cafe, the focus is microscopic. Young professionals lean over their tables, swapping laptop screens for the precision of glue and tweezers. Pearls, gems, and rhinestones spill across the tabletops, transforming mundane aluminium…
New Delhi: Delays in completion of civic projects are often attributed to financial constraints, pending approvals or procedural bottlenecks. While such explanations are all too familiar, what’s far more difficult to justify is not opening projects, which have already been completed, to the public.Across civic bodies in Delhi, several high-profile public facilities have remained non-operational…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has ordered a CAG audit of the three private power discoms over the accumulation of Rs 38,500-crore regulatory assets that are to be recovered from consumers. If undertaken, it will be the first CAG audit of the discoms since the privatisation of electricity distribution in Delhi in 2002.Comptroller and Auditor General…
New Delhi: Behind polite “namastes” and a high rent of Rs 15,000 — more than double what other tenants pay a month — a suspected synthetic drug lab used to operate out of a flat in a residential building in north Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar.Nearly three weeks after a Nigerian woman plunged to her death from…
New Delhi: A court Thursday dismissed CBI’s plea for further police custody of IPS officer Deepak Gehlawat in the Rs 3-crore bribery case linked to the alleged Rs 5,000-crore fake medicine manufacturing racket. The agency is “totally silent with regard to the steps taken in investigation” to ascertain the identity of the public servant whom…
New Delhi: Posing as an eligible bride in search of a husband and later going “missing”, 40-year-old Lalita allegedly got unsuspecting men into fake marriages before vanishing with their money. Police have arrested three people, including Lalita, her husband and another accomplice, Deepu.According to the police, the scam came to light after a missing-person report…
New Delhi: Police have arrested a Dwarka house help for allegedly making false allegations of rape against a man who had booked her through an app for house cleaning on June 30.At 1.22 pm on June 30, police got a PCR call. The woman who dialled 112 told the cops that she was assigned a…
New Delhi: Outside Shaheen Bagh’s Chand Masjid, the questions are no longer about protest sites or road blockades, but about booth-level officers (BLOs), enumeration forms and whether elderly parents have the documents they may need.Volunteers say the mosque will set up neighbourhood camps, this time not to mobilise a protest, but to help residents complete…
New Delhi: Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) detected a country-made pistol along with a live cartridge during security screening at Mandi House metro station Thursday, preventing the prohibited weapon from entering the metro network.“At 10:11am, the weapon was detected during the routine frisking of a passenger identified as a resident of Uttar Pradesh. CISF personnel…
