NEW DELHI — It is business as usual in New Delhi's biggest Muslim neighborhood days after a landmark Supreme Court verdict gave Hindus permission to build a temple on a site contested for decades with Muslims in Ayodhya town in northern...
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The Delhi government is distributing 5 million pollution masks to try to change behavior.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Surrounded by an information security crisis and data breach scandals, social networking giant Facebook has daringly launched its payments option starting with the US.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): The students union of India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the national capital has been staging a strike and demonstration against the Draft Hostel Manual that lists provisions for fee hikes, dress codes and curfew...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Spicejet blames the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX for adding to costs and incurring losses, while expressing hope that the aircraft may return to service early next year.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Within ten days of India withdrawing from the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Indian and China have agreed that a high-level panel on the Indo-China trade deficit must meet at the earliest. The meet...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Netizens are bombarding Twitter with amusing memes targeting the issue of government formation in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Previously, a few unidentified Infosys employees had accused Chief Executive Officer Salil Parekh and Chief Financial Officer Nilanjan Roy of resorting to unethical practices for boosting the short-term revenue of the company -...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Pronouncing a verdict in India’s decades-old religious land dispute – a case over the control of a religious site contested by Hindus and Muslims – the country’s top court handed over the site to Hindus for the...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): National leaders from five major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are meeting in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia on Wednesday amid trade wars and sanctions by the United States.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Days after police and lawyers clashed at a local court in India’s national capital, leaving two lawyers with bullet injuries and a high-ranked woman police officer allegedly harassed, women lawyers say life is not business as...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): As preaching and philosophy reverberated across the globe on the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak, Chinese e-commerce fashion brand Shein outraged the Sikh community with an advertisement displaying the...
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The Indian capital's notorious air pollution hit "emergency" levels again Wednesday, coinciding with a visit by Britain's Prince Charles.
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5 million face masks have been allocated to residentsWomen taking a dip in the waters of smog clad Yamuna river covered in foam. Image via Instagram by Nabina Chakraborty. Used with permission
Delhi, the capital of India, suffers from high air...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Facebook has remained controversial in Sri Lanka for the past few years, for failing to act against people who used its platform to incite division and even hatred.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): The freezing of fuel has been a problem faced by people living in India’s Himalayan region, especially in the higher reaches.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): The pictures of the newly wedded bride and groom from India’s restive state of Nagaland posing with assault rifles in hand have gone viral on social media.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): As massive swarms of locusts, of the short-horned species continue to haunt residents of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, a provincial agriculture minister has proposed an unexpected way to deal with the epidemic.
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If the late Ronald Coase could be called upon to advise the Delhi government, he would persuade chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to pay farmers in Punjab and Haryana to stop burning crop residue.
In recent times, air quality in Delhi has remained poor...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Thousands of people expressed their anger with the Shiv Sena political party for parting ways with the Narendra Modi government and trying to form a government with arch-rival the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
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