Tag: New Delhi

India invites Pakistan for WTO talks in New Delhi

--Invitation to Pakistan comes in wake of back-channel negotiations between Ajit Doval and Nasser Janjua India has invited Pakistan's Commerce Minister Pervaiz Malik to participate in...

Restored Mughal garden to reopen in New Delhi

NEW DELHI: A once-forgotten Mughal garden in the heart of New Delhi will be reopened on Wednesday after years of painstaking conservation work. The 36-hectare...

Pakistani publishers boycott Indian book fair

NEW DELHI: Pakistani publishers have decided to boycott the international book fair that is to be held in New Delhi from the 6th to...

Self-confessed Delhi ‘godman’ may have enslaved women and girls

MUMBAI: A self-proclaimed ‘godman’ may have trafficked and enslaved dozens of women including minors at several retreats in Delhi and across the country, according...

As New Delhi struggles with smog, Kashmir bans burning of leaves

SRINAGAR: With air pollution worsening in New Delhi and beyond, Indian-occupied Kashmir has decided to step up efforts to combat its own worsening air...

Cricketers continue to flounder in New Delhi’s hazardous smog

NEW DELHI: Indian and Sri Lankan cricketers battled through hazardous smog levels in a Test match Monday as New Delhi authorities faced scathing criticism...

Smog situation in New Delhi should be ‘wake up’ call for...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that the smog situation in New Delhi that forced Sri Lankan cricketers to wear...

Delhi gets an all-female police motorbike squad to fight gender crimes

NEW DELHI: An all-female police motorbike squad is set to take over Delhi’s streets next month, a senior police official said, as reports of...

Pakistan Rangers, Indian BSF hold talks in New Delhi

  The Pakistan Rangers and India’s Border Security Force (BSF) held delegation-level talks on Thursday in the 44th bi-annual meeting at the BSF Headquarters in...

Emergency declared in New Delhi as toxic smog thickens by the...

NEW DELHI: The Indian capital declared a pollution emergency and banned the entry of trucks and construction activity as a toxic smog hung over...

Specialists in Delhi blame porn for increasing rape cases

NEW DELHI: The month of November began with the news of an 18-month-old child, abducted and sexually assaulted by a 33-year-old in the outskirts...

Pak envoy meets Indian Foreign Minister in New Delhi

NEW DELHI: In what is effectively the first high-level contact between India and Pakistani in months, Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj has met Pakistan High Commissioner...

New Delhi chokes on toxic haze after frenzied Diwali fireworks

NEW DELHI: New Delhi was shrouded in a thick toxic haze Friday after a night of frenzied Diwali fireworks sent the air quality plummeting...

New Delhi shuts down power plant to fight smog

New Delhi: India's environmental watchdog shut down a coal-fired power plant and banned the use of diesel generators in New Delhi as air quality...

Outrage over seven-year-old boy’s murder in school near New Delhi

Angry parents scuffled with Indian police in riot gear at an international school near New Delhi on Saturday after a staff member was arrested...

Three women killed in central India blast

Deaths and causalities occurred in an explosion in the remote forests of conflict-torn central India, police said on Thursday. A 14-year-old girl was among the...

Pakistani man missing from his hotel room in New Delhi

A Pakistani national Tuesday has gone missing from his hotel room in New Delhi, according to the Indian media. The 43-year-old Mohammad Salim had arrived...