NEW DELHI: Protesting Indian farmers attempting to reach the capital New Delhi clashed with security forces for a second day on Wednesday, with drones being used to drop tear gas shells, television images showed. Hundreds of farmers, travelling on trucks and trolleys loaded with food, bedding
NEW DELHI: Indian police raided the office of a news portal and the homes of journalists and writers linked to it on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected illegal foreign funding of the media company, two government officials said. Laptops and mobile phones were
NEW DELHI: A mentally-challenged young Muslim was brutally beaten to death by a group of Hindu fanatics for allegedly "stealing food from a temple" in India's capital New Delhi. Isar Muhammad was killed after brutal torture for allegedly stealing some prasad (food offerings) and INR20 from
LUCKNOW, India: At least 98 people have died due to severe heat in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Many parts of north India continue to swelter under extreme heatwave conditions. At least 54 people died in a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that New Delhi's stance on Ukraine was not widespread in the United States. Asked in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about critical comments in the US for not taking a more forceful stance against Russia’s
New Delhi: Evictions and demolitions have intensified in New Delhi and other cities hosting G20-related events rendering several people homeless, activists have said. At a public hearing in New Delhi, civil society and community members shared accounts of the evictions and anti-encroachment drives. The hearing was
New Delhi: Delhi on Wednesday recorded 1,537 new coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 26.54%, the data shared by the city’s health department showed, reported PTI. Five deaths were also reported. But, in a statement, the health department said that Covid-19 was the primary cause
New Delhi: For the first time in history, Delhi is officially the “rape capital” of India. Even while the pace of increase in the number of reported rapes in the city has slowed down, the number of such cases proportionate to its women population was
New Delhi: A top Indian university has banned the screening of a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during the deadly 2002 sectarian riots, after his government attempted to block its spread online. The broadcaster’s programme alleges that the Hindu nationalist Modi, premier of
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena told him during a meeting that the Bharatiya Janata Party won 104 seats in the civic polls because of him, NDTV reported. Addressing the Delhi Assembly, the Aam Aadmi Party chief