Gopal Rai, Delhi state’s environment minister, told journalists that pollution levels in the city had “improved in the last three days” and some of the restrictions would be relaxed. The authorities had announced a shut down of some coal plants, a ban on entry of non-essential vehicles, construction work restrictions and urged people to stay…
The proposed bill “seeks to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India”, the Lok Sabha said, and comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned last week that Bitcoin presents a risk to younger generations and could “spoil our youth” if it ends up “in the wrong hands”. It is the latest such move by a major…
Zia, 76, arch-rival of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was admitted to the critical care unit of a Dhaka hospital early this month after her health worsened, one of her doctors told AFP. She is currently barred by a court from travelling overseas after being convicted on graft charges in 2018. “She is critically ill…
For the last three decades, Lal carted passengers along bumpy thoroughfares to temples, markets, and offices in New Delhi, working every day through the winter months when a pall of toxic smog settles over the sprawling megacity. “The pollution causes a lot of problems for my throat,” the 58-year-old told AFP, after a morning spent…
while residents of Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan have pleaded with officials to take action over the acrid smog engulfing the region. Air quality has worsened across northern India and adjacent parts of Pakistan in recent years, as industrial pollutants, smoke from seasonal crop burn-off, and colder winter temperatures coalesce into toxic smog. Lahore, a city…
They’re armed with apps that make the stock markets more accessible than ever before. US investment app Robinhood has made a splash in the West with its mission to open the markets to “everyday people”, but from Nigeria to India, Gen Z are flocking to homegrown equivalents. “I don’t really care about my college, to…
Toxic smog on Thursday as millions gathered with family and friends to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali, New Delhi is ranked as one of the most polluted cities globally, with a hazardous melange of factory emissions, car exhaust and smoke from agricultural fires settling in the skies over its 20 million people each winter….
Hero is seen hitting a car with a bat in the thick of one of India’s notorious traffic jams. In reality, the 48-year-old has one of the calmest heads in cricket and will he need it to coach India after their troubled T20 World Cup. The advert in which Dravid waves his bat out of…
Hindu groups have been pressuring authorities for weeks in the northern city of Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi to stop Muslims offering Friday prayers in open spaces. On Friday police deployed several hundred extra officers and arrested at least 30 people as crowds of locals and Hindu groups chanted slogans, local media reported….
for the first time in two years, barely six months after a devastating Covid-19 surge. The coronavirus is still claiming over 200 lives daily in the nation of 1.3 billion people but that is down sharply from the 4,000 fatalities in April and May. Most activities are back to normal and India has administered almost…
