Road laws optional, violations mandatory

Road laws optional, violations mandatory

Tuesday, 20 May 2025 | Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi

Despite strict regulations and hefty fines, chaotic traffic and rule violations remain largely unchanged. As per a report titled “The Great Indian Challan Crisis”, in 2024 alone, Rs 12,000 crore worth of traffic fines were issued, with a staggering Rs 9,000 crore still unpaid. Over eight crore challans were issued...

1971 war memoirs | ‘War was also being fought in our hearts and homes’

1971 war memoirs | ‘War was also being fought in our hearts and homes’

Monday, 12 May 2025 | Kailash Nath Sharma | Delhi

I was a 25-year-old young man, working as a clerk in the North Eastern Railways’ Lucknow office. My monthly salary hovered between `150-`175, a modest sum, especially as inflation soared with the war looming over us. Yet, such was the spirit of the times that despite the tight purse strings,...

Night felt endless: 16-year-old recalls Pakistan attacks

Night felt endless: 16-year-old recalls Pakistan attacks

Sunday, 11 May 2025 | Parina Kandhari | Jammu

It was a normal school day. After returning home, everyone in the family was busy with their daily routine. I was studying in my room, papa was engrossed in his office work, dadu was watching television, my sister was riding her bicycle outside, and mumma and dadi were sitting in...

Operation Sindoor: Pakistan in a quandary

Operation Sindoor: Pakistan in a quandary

Saturday, 10 May 2025 | Gen Ashok Kumar Mehta | New Delhi

Thursday  was a long night; the night of the Generals. Pakistan unleashed its tentative response to India’s lethal precision strikes on 7 May against nine terrorist infrastructure targets across the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in the heart of Punjab, including the infamous dens of Muridke...

Reminiscing coal, kerosene and Akashvani

Reminiscing coal, kerosene and Akashvani

Friday, 09 May 2025 | Bhaskara Nand Dimri | New Delhi

It was the winter of 1971. I was 29-year-old and had joined the job of government teacher at a school in Delhi’s Prahladpur Bangar area merely a year ago. Things were new for me and I was trying to figure out the functioning of department when one fine day, the...

Lessons from Balakot shape current strategies

Lessons from Balakot shape current strategies

Thursday, 08 May 2025 | Ashok K Mehta | New Delhi

The inevitable kinetic response by India to the Pahalgam carnage was in its limited and selective description symbolically narrated by multi-faith women officers of Army and the Indian Air Force and Kashmiri Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and dressed up appropriately as Operation Sindoor, the codeword chosen by Prime Minister Narendra...

Delhi RW 28/10 resumes operations

Delhi RW 28/10 resumes operations

Wednesday, 07 May 2025 | Press Trust of India | New Delhi

Delhi airport’s runway RW 28/10, which was shut for maintenance works, resumed operations on Tuesday, a development that is likely to ease air traffic congestion. Initially, the runway was to remain closed for a longer period to complete the Instrument Landing System (ILS) upgradation on one end, ahead of the fog...

Why not forts at Agra? SC to lady seeking Red Fort

Why not forts at Agra? SC to lady seeking Red Fort

Tuesday, 06 May 2025 | Press Trust of India

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the plea of a woman, who claimed to be the widow of great-grandson of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar-II, seeking possession of the Red Fort here on account of being the legal ‘heir’. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar termed...

State Editions

1,308 constables graduate from Delhi Police Academy

20 May 2025 | Pioneer News Service | Delhi

Delhi Government plan to curb waterlogging at 7 hotspots

20 May 2025 | Pioneer News Service | Delhi

Power demand at 7,265 on Monday highest for May 1-19

20 May 2025 | Pioneer News Service | Delhi

DDA plans sewage plants under irrigation project

20 May 2025 | Pioneer News Service | Delhi

Redevelopment of ISBT gathers momentum

20 May 2025 | Pioneer News Service | Delhi

Government schools to introduce pre-vocational education programme

20 May 2025 | Pioneer News Service | Delhi

Sunday Edition

Museums as living memories

18 May 2025 | SAKSHI PRIYA | Agenda

Unusual realms of Curiosity

18 May 2025 | Abhi Singhal | Agenda

South spices add flavour to Delhi

18 May 2025 | Abhi Singhal | Agenda

Eat and Enjoy

18 May 2025 | Team Agenda | Agenda

Built on Recipes and Remembrance

18 May 2025 | Abhi Singhal | Agenda

A return to nature

18 May 2025 | Gyaneshwar Dayal | Agenda