With Delhi battling a resurgence of annual spike in air pollution which can further aggravate the distress cause by the pandemic, the Capital’s struggle to contain it is on the radar and UK may have shown the way forward During the nationwide lockdown, lack of vehicular movement along with reduced human activity, paved the way […]

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Detained in Lampur centre for years, many languish here. HC orders inspection after lawyer points out concerns; also maintains deportation bid unjust — client not Pakistani Ruma bibi filed a petition in the Delhi High Court when her husband Asif Hossain wasn’t released from Tihar after his jail term ended. He was instead sent to […]

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Delhi Police is dealing with an overload of pending cases due to a shortfall in manpower, low fresh recruitment and lack of on-job training exercises Delhi has just 6,576 police Sub-inspectors (SIs), a rank which is tasked with carrying out investigations. Data on ‘Human Resources in the Policing and Law and Order System’ by Praja […]

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While the conversations around air pollution heat up around the onset of winter in Delhi, local year-round factors are often overlooked  Despite the ban on firecrackers, norms were flouted and the sound of bursting crackers could be heard echoing in the Capital this Diwali. This was a nostalgic reminder of the years before — air […]

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Lack of voluntary donors due to Covid restrictions has hit the supply of blood for transfusion Last month, Mandeep (name changed) met with an accident — a bull gored him with its horns, severely injuring him. He was rushed to the Trauma Centre of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He required transfusion of […]

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The Haryana government’s move to pass a Bill securing private sector jobs for locals faces flak from within the BJP itself For the people, but against the essence of equality and fairness? Questions are continuing to be raised on the Haryana government’s decision to introduce a Bill to reserve 75% of jobs in the private […]

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If Delhi’s three MCDs get their act together, no employee will suffer due to delayed payment of salary. Bureaucratic indifference and political games seem to be creating an artificial scarcity North MCD has faced the most flak out of the three Municipal Corporations in Delhi – the others being South and East – in the […]

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Owing to the pandemic, our country’s judicial system faces fresh challenges District courts have already been known for a backlog of cases and stagnation; people waiting for bail, their matter to be heard, evidence to be collected. On top of these chronic maladies, the Delhi High Court on 21 October came down heavily on the […]

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