On Saturday, the Delhi government had ordered schools to close for a week and banned construction work for four days
A frontier dispute between the two Asian giants turned deadly for the first time in 45 years. Observers argue the skirmish was exacerbated by Delhi’s annexation of Kashmir and Ladakh
Delhi’s food — from the street fare to fine dining — stirs together what the ruling party seeks to divide: people across class, religion and caste
As the city expands, the state’s provision of infrastructure and basic services lags behind
The National Green Tribunal penalised the capital administration for its lack of oversight
While India struggles for answers to its urban air pollution crisis, Beijing is moving forward with strong resolve and effective policy
Dense grey smog shrouded the roads of the world’s most polluted capital.
The blanket of clouds that sits over Europe for much of its winter traps pollutants from industries, causing them to float across the continent.
Candle-light vigils have been planned across India to mark the death of a female student a year ago who was gang raped on moving bus in Delhi.
An Indian court has sentenced the four men convicted in the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman to death by hanging.
Matrics get their results, the world rages over the Delhi gang-rape victim, America avoids the fiscal cliff and SA’s road death toll rises.
A gang of men who savagely raped and beat a woman on a bus in New Delhi tried to run her over after the attack that left her fatally injured.
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/ 10 October 2010
A full house roared Australian golden girl Leisel Jones to a 10th Commonwealth swimming title as Indians came out in numbers to support the Games.
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/ 29 September 2010
Thousands of tickets remained unsold for the Delhi Commonwealth Games Wednesday, just four days before they begin, with the troubled event also hit by another pullout from a star athlete.
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/ 19 January 2008
In the same way as commentators refer to the 1900s as the ”American century”, the 21st century is forecast to be Asian. If the scale and speed of growth can be maintained on both sides of the Himalayas, by 2050 Beijing and Delhi will be the capitals of the world’s two richest nations.
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/ 11 January 2008
When Baldev Singh arrived to open his car parts showroom last September he found not customers but officials from Delhi’s municipal council at his doorstep. Part of a drive to clean up Delhi in advance of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Singh was forced to close his business — sacking 12 of his staff. Officials told him that zoning laws, previously ignored, were now to be zealously enforced.
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/ 20 December 2004
India’s capital made tracks into the future on Sunday when its first underground trains began to run. Designed to cut pollution and improve life for 14-million people crowded into the traffic-choked capital, the Delhi metro has been running an 18-stop overground service since March.
Sonia Gandhi, rejecting fresh appeals to become prime minister of India, named Manmohan Singh, a 71-year-old Oxford-educated economist, for the post this week, giving the country its first non-Hindu prime minister since it gained independence. Gandhi decided not to take the post after she came under fire from Hindu nationalist rivals because she is Italian by birth.