Once deemed insurmountable, Mount Everest is like a Delhi thoroughfare on some days.
A photo posted by mountain climber, Nirmal Purja on Facebook yesterday (May 23) is proof of a “traffic jam” on the world’s tallest mountain...
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As per the latest data, the BJP has gone past the half-way mark. The BJP and its allies are leading in 321 seats, while the Indian National Congress (INC) and its allies are leading in 114 seats. The counting of votes began at 8 a.m. on Thursday...
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As results of India’s marathon elections pour in, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be leading in all the seven parliamentary constituencies of Delhi.
This is in keeping with the city-state’s tradition: It has...
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Earlier, following a wave of media reports that Indian air defences had shot down a friendly helicopter, New Delhi launched an investigation into the incident to determine whether it was due to an error by military personnel.
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The development comes just days after an Indian media outlet cited government sources as claiming that Pakistan had redeployed its US-made F-16 fighter jets in a bid to avoid major losses in potential strikes from New Delhi.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed last month that New Delhi had the “mother of nuclear bombs”, which is why, he said, it would never yield to what he described as Pakistan’s attempts at nuclear blackmail.
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Analysts and scholars from Russia and India have taken part in a video conference organised between Delhi and Moscow on issues related to the fight against global terrorism, including common and current threats being faced and the measures being...
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“Do you masturbate?”, “When did you first have sexual intercourse?”, “Did you ask for consent?” These are just some of the taboo-breaking questions I asked convicted rapists in a Delhi prison during interviews for my research.
Most of...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has officially outlawed three Islamist groups suspected of being behind the April bombings that killed over 250 people across the country, a statement published on the president's...
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Renewable energy firms in India love the western state of Gujarat.
It has topped a ranking of states on the basis of ease of doing business for renewable energy firms in the country, according to a survey by the New Delhi-based Bridge to India...
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A top Indian minister has made an ambitious promise that the government will clean New Delhi's toxic air in the next three years.
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – Washington has partly returned and will be returning considerable amounts of monies as the first tranche of funds recovered from seized assets related to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) company, Malaysia's Attorney...
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Photo Courtesy: Sachin SachdevaBy Sachin SachdevaNEW DELHI, May 6 2019 (IPS) Communities are treated as passive recipients, giving them no say in the functioning of their schools. Here’s why this needs to change.
During our work with people...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – Social networks, including Facebook and Youtube, have again been temporarily blocked in Sri Lanka, according to the broadcaster News First.
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The stand-off between the two nuclear-armed neighbours escalated in mid-February after al-Qaeda* affiliated terrorists believed to be operating from Pakistani territory attacked an Indian security convoy in Pulwama, India. New Delhi subsequently...
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This article originated in VOA’s Persian Service. Anjana Pasricha contributed from New Delhi and Hilmi Hacaloglu contributed from Ankara.
Iran’s biggest likely remaining oil customers, China, Turkey and India, were silent about purchases of...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The Catholic Church of Sri Lanka retracted its recent decision to resume Sunday services in some churches from 5 May amid a continuing high level of the terrorist threat in the country, the Ada Derana portal reported on...
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The video of the incident is breaking the internet. The woman, being addressed as ‘Aunty’ and ‘Auntyji’ in social posts, allegedly dress-shamed the girls and the girls took to social media campaigning against her with a hashtag...
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The chemical factories were literally an inferno by the time fire services reached the scene. Luckily, there were no casualties, as Monday was a weekly holiday and most of the establishments were closed.
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena appointed on Monday Chandana Wickramaratne as the country's new acting police chief in light of the deadly Easter Sunday terror attacks, the Ada Derana news portal reported, citing the...
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