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Pandemic scotches Delhi’s boast of being a Smart City

Pandemic scotches Delhi’s boast of being a Smart City

A study has pushed Delhi down from 68th to 86th position in world rankings. The Delhi government’s inability to manage…

September 29, 2020

Teachers tasked with slapping fines

After handling ration distribution and working in quarantine facilities, teachers of Delhi government now have to issue challans to the…

September 19, 2020

How Kerala’s literacy beats Delhi’s

The fact that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is running schools is one of the reasons why the Capital city…

September 13, 2020

Girl child at risk of dropout

With online classes hardly viable in poor families with two or three school going children, their education is bound to…

September 13, 2020

‘It’s a matter of life and death’, say Chandni Chowk traders

When two brothers running a jewellery showroom committed suicide due to inability to repay debt taken from private financiers, Patriot…

September 4, 2020

Rape on the rise in UP

Neither the police or the administration swing into action in the case of rape of minors and women of the…

September 4, 2020

Trial by media, acquittal by court

The public may have forgotten the Tablighi Jamaat incident, but they have been under arrest till now. The Bombay High…

August 30, 2020

Getting a grip on violence in lockups

With a PIL now filed in the Supreme Court, the ease with which police personnel get away with custodial killing…

August 29, 2020

The road from schools to factories

The lifting of the lockdown has revived the vile business of child trafficking, especially since their parents are jobless and…

August 22, 2020