Portrait of our times

Tharoor, Roy and PM Modi at the center in new book on patriotism Where exactly are we as a nation in the here and now? Have we lost the confidence to move forward in what is going to become the most daunting decade for our great country? Has the pandemic broken our resilience? How and […]

Past governments to blame for water logging in the city says Kejriwal

A day after the city faced extensive waterlogging following record rain, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal blamed the city’s “idiosyncratic drainage system” for the flooded streets, which, he said, the AAP dispensation has inherited as a “gift” from the previous governments He assured the public that they will not have to face waterlogging in the coming […]

Despite permits, right wing opposition to construction of Haj House finds LG’s ear

After Hindu Right wing organisations and the Dwarka Residents Federation opposed its construction saying Kejriwal is “hallucination of making Delhi the capital of Jihadi radicals and anti-Hindu anti-national elements”, the LG office has asked for land details of Haj House  Up until sometime last week, Delhi’s residents did not know of a site for the […]

Taliban rule: Afghan cricket at crossroads

With the Taliban controlling Kabul once again, clouds of uncertainty shroud the future of Afghanistan’s cricket team  After the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, there have been serious doubts regarding the future of the Afghanistan cricket team, or for that matter all sporting activities there. Though the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has made it clear that […]

Neeraj Chopra’s gold, are we serious about becoming a Sporting Nation?

Winning its first gold in Track and Field has the country excited for the future, but will promises and photo ops be enough to transform the India’s sports infrastructure?  Everyone loves to love the champion! And if it is someone like Neeraj Chopra, India’s first ever Track and Field gold medallist, it’s little wonder that […]

Women farmers hold ‘Kisan Sansad’ at Jantar Mantar

Nearly 200 women farmers from Delhi’s neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana gathered at Jantar Mantar in the national capital for a ‘Kisan Sansad’ on Monday to continue the agitation against the Centre’s contentious agricultural laws They raised slogans demanding scrapping of the three farm laws — the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce […]

Audit report sparks a political slugfest; common man reports distress 

Even as an audit report alleging that Delhi demanded four times its oxygen requirement triggered political slugfest between the BJP and the AAP, the ground realities of the second wave of the pandemic paint a different picture   Ashi Sinha was one of the tens of thousands of Covid positive people under home isolation when […]

The battle intensifies: BJP, Congress demand Kejriwal’s resignation over ‘inflated’ oxygen requirement

The Delhi units of the BJP and the Congress hit out at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday and demanded his resignation over a Supreme Court-appointed audit panel report that said his government exaggerated its oxygen requirement during the second wave of COVID-19 Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, however, categorically denied the existence of such […]