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Delhi water crisis: Long queues continue to form at tankers across city, hardship intensifies
Long lines of people were seen queuing up to collect water from tankers across various parts of New Delhi as the city continued to endure the summer heat. This situation has been ongoing since the beginning of the summer season, causing daily inconvenience ...
How Anand Mahindra overcame his 'Post colonial subservience disorder'
While speaking at the 4th Annual Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lecture in New Delhi, Anand Mahindra talked about what factors can help India create a global influence or Antarrashtriya Samman. He further said that business and commerce can contribute to our aspiration of earning internatio...
Raisina Dialogue | 'Putin is a warlord now, wants to get back all USSR colonies': Estonian Foreign Minister
During a panel discussion at the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi. Margus Tsahkna, the Foreign Minister of Estonia, addressed the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He cautioned against Russian aggression and its potential impact on democra...
BudgET 2024 | Housing for all: FM's massive push to eradicate unauthorised colonies, slums & chawls
Budget 2024: Govt to launch a scheme to help deserving sections of the middle class, as quoted by PM Modi "living in rented houses, slums or chawls or unauthorized colonies"-- to buy or build their own houses.BudgET 2024 | Housing for all: FM's massiv...
'Vladimir Putin will not go unpunished for this': Alexei Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnaya
Alexei Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnaya, received a standing ovation when she spoke about her husband's reported death at the Munich security conference on Friday.She told the conference: "If this is true, I want Putin and everyone around Putin, Putin’s friends, ...
Russia: Alexei Navalny, Putin's jailed critic, dead; his spokesperson says no confirmation yet
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died on Friday after collapsing and losing consciousness at the penal colony north of the Arctic Circle where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said. Navalny, by far Russia's most famous op...
Cops recover chopped human remains near Delhi's Geeta Colony flyover
Delhi Police on Wednesday found the dismembered body parts, suspected to be of a woman, near a flyover in Geeta Colony. This incident bears a haunting resemblance to the Shraddha Walkar murder case that sent shockwaves across the nation last year. The police have initiated an inves
Mumbai: BMC demolishes partially collapsed building in Rajawadi colony; watch!
Mumbai, June 25 (ANI): Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on June 25 demolished the building, which partly collapsed earlier in the day in the Rajawadi colony of Ghatkopar east. Some portions of the ground plus the upper three floors collapsed in the morning followi
Shahbad Dairy murder: Delhi court sends Sahil to 2-day police custody
Delhi's Rohini court on Tuesday sent Sahil, who brutally killed his girlfriend in the Shahbad Dairy area, to two-day police remand. The deceased girl, a resident of JJ Colony in Shahbad Dairy, was stabbed to death on Sunday evening. The police arrested the 20-year-old accused from
Delhi: Scuffle breaks out between police officials and some people in Indira Vikas Colony, video goes viral
A scuffle broke out between police and some people after the arrest of two persons in Delhi's Indira Vikas Colony. The video of the incident has gone viral on the internet. Delhi: Scuffle breaks out between police officials and some people in
Amritpal Singh news: Punjab Police releases new video, shows him walking, hiding face under an umbrella
Amid a massive manhunt operation against Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh, a new CCTV footage has surfaced on social media in which a man, who is suspected to be the radical leader, is seen walking with an umbrella. The video is from Haryana’s Sid
Conspiracy distorted history, being rectified now; India leaving behind colonial mindset: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 25 said that India is leaving behind the Colonial mindset and the nation is filled with a sense of pride for its heritage. In his address at the 400th birth anniversary celebrations of Lachit Barphukan, the Prime
Mumbai: 16-month-old girl killed in leopard attack in Aarey Colony
In a shocking tragedy on the eve of Diwali, a 16-month-old girl was killed by a leopard Aarey area of Goregaon on Monday. As per reports, the incident happened in the early hours of Monday in the unit number 15 of Aarey Colony, when the child followed her mother who was on her way to
Indonesia hails return of hundreds of cultural artifacts taken during colonial times
The Netherlands and Indonesia have hailed the return of hundreds of cultural artifacts taken — sometimes by force — during colonial times as a major step forward in restitution efforts worldwide. The items range from valuable jewels to 13th-century temple carvings.
'India is removing shackles of colonialism': PM Modi in Kargil
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who landed in Kargil on Monday to celebrate the festival of light with soldiers said Diwali means the "festival of end of terror" and that Kargil had made it possible.'India is removing shackles of colonialism': PM Modi in Kargil
PM Uday Yojana will benefit 50 lakh people in Delhi: Hardeep Singh Puri
Delhi: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri briefs the media and said, "There would be 10 lakh beneficiaries for those without homes. PM Uday for regularisation of unauthorised colonies will benefit about 50,000 people. Of a population of 2 crores, 1.35 crore of citizens will benef
District judges are not 'subordinates'; need to change colonial mindset: CJI Chandrachud
Stressing on the colonial mind-set among the superior Courts pertaining the role of the district judiciaries, CJI DY Chandrachud at his felicitation function on November 14 in Delhi, called out for the need to eliminate the mindset of considering the district ju
Haryana: Seven members of a family seriously injured in an LPG cylinder explosion in Rohtak
Seven family members were seriously injured when an LPG cylinder exploded in Haryana's Rohtak on Wednesday. The incident took place in Ekta Colony on Wednesday morning. The injured include a couple and their five children. The house was also damaged in the cy
Mumbai Metro car shed row: Protests held against Maha govt's decision of relocating shed to Aarey colony
People staged a protest against the Maharashtra government’s decision to shift the Metro car shed project back to Aarey Colony. Eknath Shinde-led government directed the Advocate General to shift the Metro-3 car shed in Mumbai’s Aarey colony. The
'We will liberate ourselves from colonial mindset': Jaishankar explains India’s 5 pledges at UNGA
Explaining the 5 pledges at the UN General Assembly that India has decided to undertake, Union External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on September 24 explained the pledges and said that the country will liberate itself from a colonial mindset. The Un
Delhi: Anti-encroachment drive underway in Mangolpuri, New Friends Colony; AAP MLA detained
The anti-encroachment drive in various parts of the national capital continued today, with bulldozers running in the New Friends Colony and Mangolpuri. The development comes soon after protests erupted in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh on Monday, with hundreds of peopl
Viral video: Youth in Bhopal seen washing vegetables in drainage water
On social media platforms, a video of a youth allegedly washing vegetables with water flowing from a broken pipeline and collected in a drain near Sindhi Colony Square in Hanumanganj in Bhopal went viral. Taking cognizance of the matter, district collector Avinash Lavaniya direct
Mumbai: Fourteen-year-old boy attacked by a leopard in Aarey colony, eighth such attack within a month
Aarey resident Ajay Pradhan said, “This is the eighth incident of leopard attack in a month. The forest department does not give a clear picture. The residents here are very agitated and I hope they don’t take the law into their hands.”Mumbai: Four
Queen Elizabeth II's death stirs anger in former African colony
Mount Kenya towers over a small farm in this East African nation, a former colony of the British Empire. When Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne in 1952, Mathenge Wa Iregi unwillingly became one of her subjects, governed by the crown. Today, in the British Empire's former colonies,
Watch: Singaporeans react to end of gay sex ban
Singaporeans have reacted with reserved excitement as the government announced they will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law called Section 377A. (AP)Watch: Singaporeans react to end of gay sex ban
Sedition law: 'Do we still need it 75 years after Independence', asks Supreme Court to Centre
New Delhi: Describing the British-era sedition law as "colonial", the Supreme Court today questioned whether the law was "still necessary after 75 years of Independence". The law is a serious threat to the functioning of institutions and holds "enormous pow
Mumbai Metro car shed row: Uddhav opposes Shinde govt's move to relocate shed to Aarey colony
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday questioned the BJP's decision to install a "so-called Shiv Sainik" as Maharashtra chief minister when it did not keep its 2019 promise of rotating the top post and slammed the new government's move to relocate
Maharashtra: Shinde-Fadnavis govt orders to build metro car shed in Mumbai's Aarey colony
After Eknath Shinde sworn in as new Maharashtra CM and Devendra Fadnavis as his Deputy, the state Govt directed that the metro car shed be built in Mumbai's Aarey colony as per sources. Mirror Now's Shwetaa Verma reportsMaharashtra: Shinde-Fadnavis govt orders
'Plunder of India…': Putin makes all-out attack on West and US, cites their 'colonial policy'
In a significant move by Russia, President Vladimir Putin railed against Western powers in his speech. He said, “The West ... began its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, and then followed the slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the
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