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  • Deadly air exposes rich-poor divide in Delhi

    Walls draped in lush vertical gardens and air filtered through purifiers insulate diners at a swanky New Delhi food court from the choking haze outside in one of the most polluted places on earth.

  • Delhi hotel fire kills at least 17

    At least 17 people die as a fire tore through a budget hotel in Delhi, in the latest disaster to raise concerns over fire safety in India.

  • Rohingya Repatriation Dhaka wants Delhi to play vital role

    Bangladesh has made a strong pitch for India's intervention in persuading Myanmar to take back nearly one million Rohingya refugees and ensure their safe return.

  • Dhaka expects help from Delhi, Beijing

    Dhaka expects India and China to stand beside Bangladesh amid the current Rohingya refugee crisis, hoping that the two countries would provide help address the influx of Myanmar nationals.

  • Delhi woman fired for accusing boss of molestation

    A manager at a five-star hotel in Delhi is seen pulling at an employee's saree and dragging her to him in an aggressive act of sexual harassment caught on CCTV camera. The shocking footage, from Pride Plaza near the airport, has been shared by the 33-year-old woman, who has inexplicably been sacked. The man who assaulted her, the hotel's security manager, has been suspended.

  • Militancy Links: Bangladeshi held in Delhi

    Another Bangladeshi, believed to be a member of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), has been arrested in a joint drive in New Delhi of India.

  • None helped as Delhi woman stabbed to death in broad daylight

    A young woman is stabbed to death in broad daylight on a road in Delhi with at least six people witnessing but no one trying to intervene the gruesome incident.

  • Women power lifts IPL

    As women flock to the stands and take prominent positions in commentary boxes and boardrooms, cricket's richest Twenty20 league is no longer solely a man's world.

  • A rare off day for Fizz

    It was one of those rare off days for Mustafizur Rahman and his team Sunrisers Hyderabad that suffered a punishing seven-wicket defeat against Delhi Daredevils at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium yesterday.

  • Manmohan, Sonia, Rahul briefly detained during protest

    Members of the Congress party, including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, party President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were briefly detained at a police station in Delhi for defying orders as they tried to march towards Parliament.

  • Dravid Jr. scores century for club team

    Ex- India batsman, The ‘Wall” Rahul Dravid's son Samit seems to be following in his father's footsteps. All of 10 years of age, Samit scored a century in an Under-14 club cricket match at the Loyola ground in Bangalore.

  • Biman's Delhi flight to resume next month

    Biman Bangladesh Airlines is going to resume its flight operations between Dhaka and Delhi in April to boost the bilateral relations and trade and commerce between the two countries.

  • Dhaka-Delhi Biman flight to resume in April

    The much expected Biman flight between Dhaka and Delhi route will resume in April, says civil aviation and tourism ministry.

  • Dhaka, Delhi discuss water, trade, security issues

    Foreign Ministers of Bangladesh and India discuss various issues of Bangladesh-India bilateral relations including water resources, trade and commerce, security and border management.

  • India 'sedition' students arrested

    Two Indian students accused of sedition for helping organise a protest at Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), have handed themselves into police.

  • Water begins to return in Delhi

    Water supplies have been partially restored in the Indian capital, Delhi, after repairs began on a key canal which supplies much of the city.

  • Army takes control of Delhi water link

    India's army has taken control of a key canal that supplies water to Delhi, the capital's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said.

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    World's most polluted city, Delhi, plans new limits on car use

    The Delhi government plans another round of tough measures to restrict the use of private cars and clean up toxic air in the Indian metropolis, the world's most polluted city.

  • No bachelors, sex or alcohol: The travails of renting in Delhi

    Renting a flat in urban India is no easy task, specially for single women and men.

  • Biman plans to expand wings on int’l routes: Menon

    Biman Bangladesh Airlines has planned to expand its wings to China and Maldives apart from resuming its suspended routes to Delhi and Hong Kong in 2016.

  • Delhi anti-pollution car trial ends

    India's capital Delhi ends a two-week trial that imposed major restrictions on private cars to curb alarming levels of pollution.

  • The street children who run a newspaper

    A group of street children is bound by a shared passion to bring out Balaknama (Voice of Children), an eight-page quarterly newspaper which focuses on children living and working on the streets.

  • Cop killed, 2 hurt in Delhi court firing

    A policeman is killed, two others injured when unidentified gunmen open fire inside the Karkardooma Court premises in east Delhi, reports NDTV.

  • 10 killed as BSF plane crashes in Delhi

    Ten people are killed when a small aircraft of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) crashes in Delhi. The plane, a Super King aircraft, was flying to Ranchi, capital of eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The technicians said to have lost contact with ground control before the crash.

  • Delhi teenage rapist set to be freed

    A legal challenge to stop the release of the teenage convict of the 2012 Delhi gang rape is unsuccessful.

  • Air India technician dies in accident

    An Air India technician was killed when the ground staff was sucked into an aircraft’s engine at Chhatrapati Shivaji domestic airport in Mumbai yesterday.

  • ICC World T20 venue allotment raises eyebrows

    The Indian cricket board's (BCCI) decision to award almost half of the ICC World T20 matches next year to only two venues -Dharamshala and Nagpur -has raised eyebrows.

  • Delhi bid to curb vehicle pollution

    Delhi local government says private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will only be allowed to operate on alternate days to curb pollution.

  • Taj Mahal ‘not a Hindu temple’

    The government of India rejects claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple.

  • Indian women educate 'ignorant' minister

    A group of female students and women's activists in the Indian capital, Delhi, have come up with a unique response to minister Smriti Irani's declaration that women in India have complete freedom to decide what to wear or whom to meet. The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi reports.

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