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What’s up, cops?

What’s up, cops?

Delhi Police’s solution to rumour mongering via social media is to deploy Cyber Forensic Vans that can scan a suspect’s…

July 24, 2018

Cost of happily ever after

Horses suffer silently when a groom goes to get his bride in a noisy baraat. More often than not, they…

July 17, 2018

15 years a slave

Entire families are kept captive for years to pay off a small debt they incur — and this story continues…

March 11, 2020

Get back to your seat!

In Japan, you can be fined for leaving your seat early for lunch. In India, the work ethic is so…

July 6, 2018

Modesty exemplified

Dr Bharat Vaswani, who has won the Magsaysay Award for taking 7,000 mentally ill off the streets and reuniting them…

August 6, 2018

2033: Not a drop to drink

This will be Delhi’s fate just 15 years from now. So says the NITI Aayog, and also cautions that ground…

June 22, 2018

Making grass legal

The monsoon session of Parliament is slated to take up a bill legalising medical uses of marijuana. Cancer patients and…

June 15, 2018

No longer a criminal

With the law decriminalising suicide coming into effect on May 29, those who are depressed will have a better shot…

June 7, 2018

DEATH OF THE INVISIBLE

When an unidentified body is found on the streets of Delhi, a post-mortem is supposed to be conducted but police…

July 29, 2019