Diwali

Why have Parliament session in Capital if pollution is such a worry?

Veeresh Malik - December 24, 2021

(The winter session of Parliament is now over. Veeresh Malik works out the pollution it adds to the Capital and asks: How is it...

Why did the fire-crackers ban fail? For people are not fools!

Veeresh Malik - November 5, 2021

This was air quality in and around the National Capital Region of India and North India on the morning after Diwali. (Declaration : I have...

South Korea to build a park in Ayodhya with Yogi government

Newsbred Staff - June 17, 2021

South Korea’s envoy to India Shin Bongkil informed that his country, in collaboration with the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government, is building a park...

Two Jaish-e-Mohammed suspects arrested in Delhi; major attack foiled

Newsbred Staff - November 17, 2020

The Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested two suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists from Sarai Kale Khan area in southeast Delhi, officials said on Tuesday. As...

Kanwal Sibal questions Shashi Tharoor for his Diwali wish in Urdu

Bhumika Arora - November 16, 2020

While everyone across the country was busy celebrating Diwali, Congress senior leader Shashi Tharoor was secularizing it. Recently, Shashi Tharoor shared a snapshot on his...

Why is Kejri now public with his religion? Who paid for his ads? We, of course

Veeresh Malik - November 15, 2020

Diwali in India is now over, firecracker ban was imposed and largely followed or not followed on quiet streets depending on who you want...

Firecrackers trouble: 5 booked, 2 policemen injured in West Bengal

Bhumika Arora - November 14, 2020

A few firecrackers left from previous years. Kids wanting to put them to good use this Deepawali. But the West Bengal police took amiss....

Diwali and the absurd criminalizing of a civilization: Back to George Orwell’s dystopia in India

Veeresh Malik - November 13, 2020

Air quality in Delhi at the quietest time - dawn--is like this, on the day before Diwali (see image below). And a complete civilisation,...

Delhi and its sham fight against Covid-19, air pollution: Anyone these 5 steps please?

Veeresh Malik - November 12, 2020

Rich hobby cyclists whiz past wearing fancy clothes, multi-coloured and helmets, visibly without masks as that interferes with their morning exercise, whilst commuter cyclists...

No ban on firecrackers; celebrate Diwali with gusto, says MP CM Shivraj Chouhan

Bhumika Arora - November 10, 2020

Breaking the league, Madhya Pradesh chief ministser Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced on Twitter that there will be no ban on crackers in his...

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