Mapping the states of India
The premium leaves of Darjeeling
12 Feb 2022 5:45 PM GMTThough Darjeeling Tea was the first product to be awarded GI tag in India after the passage of Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and...
The way out: A fresh outline
5 Feb 2022 7:33 PM GMTReconstitution of the heavily populated and fast-growing Delhi as two UTs — NCTD under LG and NCR under CM — can both ensure the strategic control of...
Concession with constraints
29 Jan 2022 5:12 PM GMTAlthough the quest for legislative assembly ended with the passing of 69th Constitutional amendment in 1991, the governance of Delhi remains split...
Curtailed autonomy
22 Jan 2022 7:35 PM GMTFollowing the contentious recommendation of the SRC in 1956 a abolish the legislative assembly and reduce Delhi’s autonomy to Municipal Corporation,...
Governing the national capital
15 Jan 2022 6:10 PM GMTExcept for a brief period between 1952 and 1956, capital ‘New Delhi’ remained bereft of legislative assembly or council in its initial three decades — ...
Of timeless relevance
8 Jan 2022 6:06 PM GMTDuring the Mughal rule, under the Marathas, as part of the NWP and British Punjab, and as a Chief Commissioner’s province later — Delhi always...
The ancient Indraprastha
1 Jan 2022 5:37 PM GMTAges changed, and so did the rulers, but Indraprastha, believed to be founded in the Mahabharata period, managed to retain its relevance all...
Unexplored plenitude
25 Dec 2021 5:53 PM GMTDemographically diverse and strategically crucial Andaman & Nicobar Islands are teeming with profound resources — exploitation of which remains widely ...
Tricolour over the Islands
18 Dec 2021 5:54 PM GMTEven after the official handover of the islands to the INA, Japanese — who had occupied those from the British — were known to have inflicted...
Nancowry and the copra traders
11 Dec 2021 4:18 PM GMTAfter the Danish failed to settle in Nicobar, the islands eventually went to the British who would turn Nancowry into a trade hotspot — allowing copra ...
The jail economy
4 Dec 2021 6:54 PM GMTWith its full-fledged management apparatus, led by Eurasians and sustained by incentivised ‘convict settlers’, Andaman Islands had developed a...
Downsized existence
27 Nov 2021 6:37 PM GMTOwing to the ‘market policy’ of the penal colony, and superior treatment given to the ‘royal’ Eurasian and European prisoners, indigenous convicts...
In 100 bail orders: 'Videos' used for arrest in 44; 32 of these failed ...
22 Feb 2021 7:11 PM GMTDelhi Police say 1,753 held but courts heard over 4,347 bail pleas
21 Feb 2021 8:26 PM GMT755 FIRs and 342 chargesheets against 1,553 people later – not a...
21 Feb 2021 7:48 PM GMTOf courts' bugbears, most common 'doubtful' police, public witness...
23 Feb 2021 7:29 PM GMTA Delhi Police-sized roadblock in victims' path to justice — clubbing...
25 Feb 2021 7:39 PM GMT
Furnish audit reports on MCD's solid waste management: Atishi
23 May 2022 7:32 PM GMTDelhi riots 2020: CAA protests against unjust law; not against...
23 May 2022 7:31 PM GMTMCD unified, now pay employees' pending salaries: AAP tells Centre
23 May 2022 7:31 PM GMTAAP calls BJP's 'pol khol abhiyan' a failure
23 May 2022 7:31 PM GMT'Enrolment in Delhi govt schools up by 21% in last 7 years'
23 May 2022 7:30 PM GMT