Delhi's air quality ranks severe in some areas

Delhiites continued to breathe toxic air on Tuesday as the air quality edged closer to the severe zone in some areas. Photograph: Vijay Verma/PTI Photo/Rediff archives The Air Quality Index (AQI)......

Smog engulfs Delhi as air quality drops to 'very poor'

A thick layer of smog enveloped Delhi on Tuesday morning as the city's air quality deteriorated to the 'very poor' category with 27 monitoring stations falling in the red zone, the Central......

Body of missing 7-yr-old Delhi boy found in drain

A seven-year-old boy went missing in northwest Delhi's Ashok Vihar and his body was found hours later in a drain, with his mother alleging on Monday he lost his life because the drain was open and......

UP sub-station fire leaves Delhi 'powerless' for 1 hour, homes of LG, CM hit

Several parts of the national capital, including the area housing the Delhi LG secretariat and Chief Minister's residence, faced outages for varying lengths as a substation of power grid in......

Bharat Bandh: Essential services most likely to be hit

Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore Essential services like banking and......

Modi says make in India, but even 'thalis' are from China

Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of the Make in India Mission at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. Photograph: PIB Even as India's business elite gathered in New Delhi to pledge their......

MoEF lifts ban on projects in 8 polluted areas

The Ministry of Environment and Forests, under attack for being allegedly rigid in clearing projects, has lifted the moratorium on developmental projects in eight more 'critically polluted'......

MoEF lifts moratorium on new projects in 8 areas

The Ministry of Environment and Forests, currently under attack for being allegedly too rigid in providing clearances to projects, has lifted an earlier moratorium in this regard on eight more......

Indian cricketers should stop complaining

Indian cricketers should stop pretending to be poor little rich kids and just do what they have been paid for, feels Abhishek Mande The lead sports story in a Mumbai newspaper today is a report of......