Road laws optional, violations mandatory
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...
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Yoga stretches in Mumbai local trains
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Juicy, glossy Turkish apple rots on Indian plates
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Hope, anger rises from Dilli Haat ashes
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Jharkhand government schools excel CBSE exams
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Justice BR Gavai sworn as Chief Justice of India
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Justice Gavai will uphold SC values: CJI Khanna
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King Kohli walks away from Test cricket
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1971 war memoirs | ‘War was also being fought in our hearts and homes’
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
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
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
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
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 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
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...
