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B'desh sets Hasina extradition rider for Rahman's visit

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Bangladesh on Sunday set former premier Sheikh Hasina's extradition as a condition for a visit to India by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, with the foreign ministry in Dhaka sayin... Read More


4 Renaissance works stolen from museum

India, Aug. 17 -- Thieves stole four works attributed to the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum in the Sicilian city of Messina on the Italian Ferragosto holiday,... Read More


Monsoon falters again, puts kharif crop yields at risk

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- After pulling India back from a near 40% rainfall deficit at the end of June, the southwest monsoon is losing momentum again. The all-India rainfall deficit remained stuck at 12%... Read More


Govt extends 100% water bill surcharge waiver till Mar '27

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The Delhi government has extended its 100% waiver on late payment surcharge (LPSC) on outstanding water bills for domestic and non-domestic consumers until March 31, 2027, giving... Read More


DU may introduce EVMs for polls at all colleges

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Delhi University (DU) is planning to introduce electronic voting machines (EVMs) for students' union elections within its various colleges in the 2026-27 academic year to bring g... Read More


'Additional construction, basement excavation led to Saidulajab collapse'

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- A nearly 350-page chargesheet filed in a Saket court said that the deadly May 30 Saidulajab collapse was caused by the additional constructions on the four-storey structure and e... Read More


RWAs as historians, the Mayfair Garden edition

India, Aug. 17 -- Delhi's settlement history has followed a discernible logic in which particular communities converge around shared origin, profession, or exile -- a pattern legible across the city's... Read More


Did Gurugram come first or Instagram?

India, Aug. 17 -- Gurgaon, the Millennium City of corporate complexes and residential towers, looks so vertical that it seems to have no past. Even its newer name, Gurugram, sounds too modern, rhyming... Read More


Delhi's houses: The subconscious of a Capital, chronicled in its residences

India, Aug. 17 -- A city builds itself around its people. Its most intimate architecture is residential, the house speaks through its people and their connection with land, climate, history, habits - ... Read More


32-year-old man dies after falling into water-filled pit in Prem Nagar

NEW DELHI, Aug. 17 -- A 32-year-old man died after he allegedly fell into a water-filled pit in a vacant private plot while returning home allegedly in an inebriated condition in the Brij Vihar area o... Read More