It’s official. China’s president Xi Jinping won’t make it to the G20 summit in Delhi, and Beijing will be represented by the Chinese premier Li Qiang. Whether to attend an international gathering or not is purely a sovereign choice and is dictated by a range of geopolitical, strategic, internal and logistical reasons. But Xi’s decision […]
Tag Archives: delhi
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Aug
Aug
The noxious mix of vapours in India’s national Capital is shaving off nearly 12 years from a resident’s life expectancy, a global report has estimated, painting a damning picture of the administrative apathy that led the air to deteriorate year after year, intervening only with stop-gap measures once it literally gets too difficult to breathe. […]
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Aug
Aug
The seeds of Delhi’s air emergency every winter are sown in the fields of Punjab during the monsoon. This year, however, there appears to be a silver lining in the dark plumes of smoke that envelop the Capital come November. For the first time, close to half the total area under paddy cultivation in Punjab […]
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Jul
Jul
A 33-year-old pilot and her 36-year-old husband who worked as part of the ground staff for another airline were arrested from Delhi’s Dwarka suburb for allegedly employing a 10-year-old girl as their domestic help and assaulting her, this newspaper reported on Thursday. Not only did the couple – highly educated and employed in senior positions […]
06
Jul
Jul
There is clearly a problem in the security arrangement at Delhi’s courts, and a glaring one at that. For the fifth time in two years, gunshots rang out at court premises in the Capital this week, highlighting that stringent security checks are either being implemented too weakly to make a difference on the ground or […]
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Jun
Jun
Delhi appears to be in the throes of a crime spree. Over the past two weeks, India’s Capital has been convulsed by a string of cases in parts of the city that are heavily patrolled by the police, are sensitive locations and known to be safe. Is the city becoming less safe? Cold numbers might […]
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Jun
Jun
In an era defined by the climate crisis, the monsoon continues to play tricks. After its sluggish progress up India’s western coast the past two weeks, the monsoon covered Mumbai and Delhi on the same day, marking the first time since 1961 when the annual rains arrived in the two megapolises 1,500km apart at the […]
07
Jun
Jun
The roots of Delhi’s impending winter pollution crisis may be sown in the verdant fields of Punjab a week from now. The state’s paddy sowing season is set to start on June 10, but the government is facing an uphill battle in convincing farmers to not use a variety of PUSA 44 seed that produces […]
06
Jun
Jun
It would seem that an audacious murder inside India’s largest prison complex would be enough of a wakeup call for the authorities to clean up the system, put officials on notice, and plug gaps in security protocols. Evidently, this is not the case. This newspaper reported on Tuesday that seven inmates in Delhi’s prisons have […]
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May
May
A democratically elected government must be allowed to serve its constituents. This is the message at the heart of the significant Supreme Court judgment this week that confirmed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government controlled bureaucrats assigned to departments that are legally within its purview. The 105-page order by a Constitution bench headed by […]
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