New Delhi: For the past one year, every night, 35-year-old Sushila feared for the safety of her three minor children, including two daughters, while sleeping under a flyover in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh, an area frequented by drug addicts and other anti-social elements. That fear has now eased.As part of Delhi Police’s drive to provide…
Learning something from a finished textbook can give us a clear answer, but it does not always show us how that answer came to be. James Clerk Maxwell believed that students could gain something deeper by returning to the original work of the scientists who first developed an idea. In his words, “It is of…
NEW DELHI: Former Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Dr Vatsala Agarwal was arrested on Saturday in a corruption case linked to alleged irregularities in the procurement of medicines, surgical items and medical equipment, according to news agency PTI. The arrest of Dr Vatsala Agarwal comes days after the ACB arrested Dr Vijay Kumar Ranga…
A Boeing 737 aircraft that was originally the part of the Canadian Airlines fleet now lies nearly 90 feet underwater and serves the role of an artificial reef for marine life. The 100-foot jet was decommissioned by Air Canada due to age and structural problems, stripped of all usable components and the airframe was donated…
Heavy rain significantly improved Delhi’s air quality to a ‘good’ level on Thursday. NEW DELHI: Heavy rain cleaned Delhi’s air on Thursday, with the air quality index (AQI) improving to 48, from 59 a day earlier.As a result, residents could enjoy ‘good’ air for the first time in nearly three years. The city last recorded…
Investors can now use the automatic route, provided they meet the applicable reporting requirements. Under the revised Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) framework, which eased Chinese shareholding rules, 29 proposals worth around Rs 4,895.65 crore, or more than $500 million, have been reported. The changes were introduced in May to allow overseas companies with Chinese shareholding…
Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are covering the expanding scope of the US-Iran war before Trump’s sudden halt to the strikes, again; Ukraine’s targeting of Russian e-commerce company Wildberries and why this matters; Kazakh President Tokayev’s plain-speak to Putin; migrant rush at Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla;…
Surat: In a rare move aimed at maintaining security and preventing gang-related violence, 10 accused involved in serious crimes have been transferred from Surat’s Lajpore Central Jail to different jails across the state.Jail authorities took the decision after concerns were raised over the possibility of a gang war and the involvement of certain inmates in…
Visitors paying tribute to Kotnis’s statue in Shijiazhuang | In circle: Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis in Army uniform (Photo courtesy: China Daily and Xinhua) At a time when India and China were themselves struggling under the shadow of war and colonial rule, a young Indian doctor travelled thousands of kilometres to help wounded Chinese soldiers. He…
People from your past may reconnect, delayed opportunities may find their way back, and conversations you thought were over may suddenly begin again. Before looking for something new, pay attention to what life is bringing back. Sometimes the right opportunity doesn’t arrive for the first time—it returns at the right time.Names Beginning with A, I,…
