Run like hell – away from the smog

With the deteriorating air quality in Delhi, it is becoming extremely difficult for professional marathoners to run in the capital On Sunday, December 9, New Delhi witnessed the 3rd edition of the Super Sikh Run, one of the most prestigious half marathons in the country. The half marathon, which started from the Rakabganj Gurudwara to […]

Fat weddings told to go on diet

Marriage celebrations have become a convenient venue for ugly display of wealth. The Kejriwal government proposes some restrictions Celebrities from all over the world queued up for the wedding of Mukesh and Nita Ambani’s daughter Isha with Anand Piramal. Participating in the week-long extravaganza were film stars, diplomats, politicians, even America’s former secretary of state […]

Unsubtle social order

While IPS officers lord it over plush offices that would do a CEO proud, humble constables and SHOs slog it out in bare structures, writing your complaints in a register with ballpens Hierarchy: a system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. Even today, an embedded […]

When lawyers flout High Court orders

Signboards on every lamp post ban people from parking. Yet these top lawyers claim they are not flouting rules, some blame their drivers, some just say they are innocent. But Patriot witnessed and photographed the illegal activity From an auto rickshaw driver to a parking attendant, a traffic police constable to a senior advocate, one […]

When joy returns

Remember the shocking news of a baby being handed over covered in plastic and later turning out to be alive? His parents have been blessed with a baby girl The two-bedroom Kumar household was abuzz with excitement, the adults busying themselves with house errands. A young boy was running around the bed, amusing himself with […]

Wrong visa, right intent

Foreign journalists who work on tourist visa in India not only break the law but also get less than the wages back home Despite being accredited journalists, two French nationals were arrested in Kanyakumari when they were allegedly trying to trespass into restricted area belonging to the Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) at Manavalakurichy. The […]

The wild west

In the dusty hinterland of western Uttar Pradesh, despite the crackdown of Yogi government on gangsters, might is right and many issues are settled with the gun Western Uttar Pradesh bordering Delhi has the dubious distinction of being a hotbed of crime, and not just communal clashes, cow vigilantism or love jihad. Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, […]

Payback time!

602 private schools across Delhi owe their students Rs 178 crore worth of refund – an amount they had charged as excess fees. Now, they have to return it Rs 178 crore: This is the humongous amount that private schools across Delhi had collected from their students as excess fees. Now, they have to give […]