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Sheila Dikshit to Kejriwal, every CM pledged to fix Old Delhi. Now BJP wants NDMC-like teeth

Congress, AAP, and now BJP have promised to rejuvenate the Walled City. Under redevelopment agency SRDC, it’s been Delhi’s oldest political promise and most persistent failure.

What ails Punjab NRI sabha today? It was the protector of the global Punjabi rights and roots

Long before Punjab’s Department of NRI Affairs or the NRI Commission even existed, the Sabha stepped in as a nodal problem-solver, a mediator, and often, the first and the last resort.

India’s teens are reading Young Adult fiction. They don’t want myth & morality lessons

Young adult fiction is filling a long-ignored reading gap for teenagers navigating identity, relationships and growing up. The copies are rising and so are book sales.

How Khurpenchh became the UPSC watchdog online

Run anonymously by engineers from Uttar Pradesh, the popular X account scrutinises UPSC aspirants and civil servants and their tall claims on social media.

Delhi is having extravagant & unhealthy obsession with palm trees

“The palm fashion really came from Dubai and Sharjah," environmentalist Pradip Krishen, and author of Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide, said.

A rebellious Hoshiarpur cobbler that PhD students love to cite

When customers enter Dwarka Bharti’s shop, they notice the books lying with the shoes and ask if he reads—but he rarely mentions that he is a writer as well.

Almonds and walnuts were Kashmir’s pride. Now Indians get their fix from California, Chile

Kashmir produces most of India's almonds and walnuts but meets only a fraction of exploding demand. Indians already turn to California, and now there's the US trade deal — 'time for an upheaval'.

The secret lives of young India in small-town gyms. Dumbbells, desire, freedom

Gyms are the new hangout spots in rural and small-town India, where young men and women can mingle without social stigma. But it’s beginning to trigger a backlash.

When did the Aryans enter the subcontinent? Lucknow’s Birbal Sahni Institute is tracing DNA

The scientists at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences are working toward finding Tajikistan ancestry through skeletons found in Vadnagar; explaining the Tibetan, South Asian and Central Asian origins of Ladakhi population.

Punjab gangsters are shooting village sarpanches now. Moving on from NRIs and pop stars

Two out of four sarpanches killed since January were associated with AAP—a detail that has drawn quiet attention in Punjab’s political circles.

On Camera

This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.