Hindustan Times Delhi - March 16, 2025

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March 16, 2025

Indian Student Leaves US Over Gaza Protests

An Indian student at Columbia University self-deported after their visa was revoked for allegedly \"advocating for violence and terrorism\" and involvement in activities supporting Hamas, a group designated by the US as a terrorist organisation.

1 min

Trump Weighs New Travel Ban, Pak Likely in Restricted Visa List

US President Donald Trump's administration is mulling a new travel ban that would affect citizens from dozens of countries to varying degrees, The New York Times reported on Friday.

1 min

Around 50 held in W Bengal, J'khand over Holi violence

Nearly 50 people were arrested in Jharkhand and West Bengal after clashes rocked Holi celebrations in some parts of the two states.

1 min

States record severe heat weeks ahead of schedule

Severe heatwave conditions have begun sweeping across eastern and western India unusually early in the season, with temperatures exceeding 40°C in several regions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned on Saturday.

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Millions of poor not yet under food safety net, House panel told

GOVT HAS TOLD A PARLIAMENTARY PANEL THAT IT CANNOT ADD MORE BENEFICIARIES TO PDS LIST UNTIL THE NEXT CENSUS

2 mins

3rd Pvt Car in Household Must Be an EV: Draft Delhi Govt Plan

CNG Autos Over 10 Years Old Will Be Replaced Or Retrofitted With Electric Ones During The Policy Period

1 min

Gulmarg fashion show organisers summoned

A Srinagar court has issued a notice to the organisers of the Gulmarg fashion show, which stirred major controversy last week amid allegations of obscenity and hurting religious sentiments during the month of Ramzan, asking them to appear before it on April 8.

1 min

Maya Slams Govt Over Delay in Caste Census

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Saturday reiterated her demand for a caste census and urged the Centre to take the required steps in this regard.

1 min

BJP Questions Piketty's Name in Caste Survey Analysis Group

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday raised objections to the Telangana government's decision to include French economist Thomas Piketty in an 11-member committee formed to analyse data from a recently conducted caste survey.

1 min

Oppn raises chorus for Parl debate on electoral ID cards

Opposition parties have intensified their demand for a debate on the EPIC (the Elector Photo Identity Cards) and voter roll in the Budget session of Parliament next week, amid allegations of duplication of the ID numbers, manipulations in the voter list and related issues over the past few weeks.

1 min

Man Kills Minor Daughter Over Marital Strife

A man allegedly killed his four-year-old daughter in West Bengal's Nadia district over a marital strife with his wife, police said on Saturday.

1 min

Student self-deports after US revokes visa

An Indian student at Columbia University self-deported after their visa was revoked for allegedly \"advocating for violence and terrorism\" and involvement in activities supporting Hamas, a group designated by the US as a terrorist organization.

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5 Arrested for Series of Metro Cable Thefts

Police arrested five men involved in a series of copper cable thefts from Metro tracks across the city, which disrupted services and posed safety risks to commuters, officials said on Saturday.

1 min

Three Detained For Abducting 17-Year-Old Boy For ₹50k Ransom

Three boys were apprehended on Wednesday for allegedly kidnapping a 17-year-old boy for a ₹50,000 ransom in Mehrauli, south Delhi on Tuesday, police said on Friday.

1 min

Speeding BMW Hits Motorbike In GGM, Kills One

A speeding BMW being driven on the wrong side of the road hit a motorbike on the Gurugram-Faridabad road, killing the rider and injuring the person sitting pillion around 11.30pm on Wednesday, police said.

1 min

Traffic Violations on Holi Doubled This Year

The Delhi Traffic Police prosecuted 7,230 people for various traffic violations during Holi celebrations on Friday, issuing over 1,200 challans for drink driving across the national capital, a senior officer said on Saturday.

1 min

35-Year-Old Beaten for Pelting Man With Balloon

A group of men assaulted a 35-year-old man and his friend in Chhawla, Dwarka on Thursday after one of the victims threw a water balloon at one of them, police said.

1 min

Hry CM: No sewage water to be discharged in Yamuna

Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini directed deputy commissioners (DCs) of the state that sewage water or polluted drain water should not be discharged into the Yamuna.

1 min

3rd Private Car Must Be EV: Delhi Government Proposal

Capital's electric push Policy proposes to achieve 98% new vehicle registration by 2030

3 mins

Capital breathes 'satisfactory' air for 1st time since September '24

Delhi's air quality improved to the \"satisfactory\" category on Saturday for the first time since September 29, 2024, aided by scattered rain and occasional gusty winds that impacted the region from Friday, prompting the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to revoke Stage 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan.

1 min

Farmers seek tax exemptions, govt support in Delhi Budget

NEW DELHI: Farmers' representatives on Saturday met chief minister Rekha Gupta to demand tax exemptions, public sanitation, a solution to water logging on roads during monsoon, and better healthcare and education facilities, in the upcoming Delhi Budget, officials familiar with the matter said. The suggestions were made during a meeting called by the CM to seek opinions of various groups of society.

1 min

Purple Fest to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan

Purple Fest 2025, an event by the social justice ministry to help persons with disabilities (PwDs), will be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 21, the government said in a press release on Saturday.

1 min

Drain desilting starts early, min checks progress

The Public Works Department (PWD) has started the drain desilting exercise well before monsoon, officials familiar with the matter said, expecting the exercise to be completed by mid-June.

1 min

₹2.68-crore sports facility in ruins within year of opening

A few hundred metres from the Delhi-Jaipur expressway in Kapashera lies a two-storey sports complex.

3 mins

Nearly 50 held in 2 states over Holi clashes

Nearly 50 people were arrested in Jharkhand and West Bengal after clashes rocked Holi celebrations in some parts of the two states.

1 min

SIT to probe attack on ex-Himachal Cong MLA

The Himachal Pradesh Police have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday to probe into the attack on former Congress MLA Bamber Thakur in which he and a security officer received bullet injuries.

1 min

J&K Panel Told To Submit Its Report On Quota System In 6 Months: CM

The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet sub-committee formed last year to look into grievances against the current reservation policy in the Union territory will submit its report in six months, chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday.

1 min

K'taka's 4% quota move sparks fresh controversy

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday called the Karnataka government's decision to reserve 4% of government contracts as \"unconstitutional\", saying that the move was part of the Congress's appeasement of the Muslim community and it weakens national unity.

2 mins

Explosive thrown at Amritsar temple, cops suspect Pak links

An unidentified person hurled an explosive device at the Thakur Dwar temple in Khandwala area of Amritsar, triggering a blast that damaged a part of the temple wall and some window panes, around midnight on Saturday, police officials said, adding that they suspect the role of Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), behind the attack.

1 min

Safety, modernisation to be in focus at top navy meet

THE NAVAL COMMANDERS’ MEET, CHAIRED BY NAVY CHIEF ADMIRAL DINESH K TRIPATHI, WILL BE HELD FROM APRIL 7 TO 10

2 mins

Two Missing Boys Reunited With Families In Kathua

Two boys, who went missing last month, were reunited with their families in Jammu & Kashmir's Kathua district on Saturday, an official said.

1 min

Rescue goes awry, cop abducted man killed

An assistant sub-inspector of special armed force (SAF) was allegedly killed and 10 other personnel sustained injuries on Saturday, when a police team tried to rescue a man abducted by the villagers over his involvement in an accident, in Mauganj district of Madhya Pradesh, police said, adding the abducted man, too, was also found dead later.

1 min

Court Refuses to Take Cognisance of CBI Charge Sheet in Yes Bank-DHFL Case

CBI was left red-faced after a special court refused to take cognisance of its supplementary charge sheet naming businessmen Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa as accused in the DHFL-Yes Bank fraud case, noting that allegations against them are not made out.

1 min

Smuggling case probe: Rao's DGP stepfather sent on leave

The Karnataka government on Saturday placed DGP-rank officer K Ramachandra Rao, whose stepdaughter Ranya Rao was arrested in a gold smuggling case, on compulsory leave, a government order said.

2 mins

Install statues of Maratha Empire warriors in Delhi

NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to permit installing three horse-mounted statues of Peshwa Bajirao I, Mahadji Shinde and Malharrao Holkar at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi.

1 min

PM Offers a Peek into Podcast with Fridman, to be Out Today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday shared snatches of his discussion with world-renowned scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman.

1 min

Aurangzeb grave row: VHP warns of 'Kar Seva'

PUNE: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Saturday said it will organise \"Kar Seva\", on the lines of the \"Ram Janmabhoomi movement\" held in Ayodhya, to demolish the grave of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Khuldabad in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district of Maharashtra.

1 min

Row Over Tej Pratap's Remark At Cop In Bihar

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tej Pratap has triggered controversy after videos of him speaking questionably to a policeman at a Holi celebration at his official residence emerged online.

1 min

Shah: Peace returned to Assam under BJP's rule

Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for restoration of peace in Assam as he accused the previous Congress government of keeping \"the state under riots\".

1 min

A bookmark for your memory called cricket

Whenever I am happy or sad about a cricket result, I ask this existential question: How does a cricket result matter to me?

3 mins

The general at his desk, writing murder mysteries

Thrillers, of course, are not easy to write. First, there is the plot. It needs to be intriguing and, more importantly, as you read you need to be pulled deeper and deeper into it. Then, there's the pacing of the story. It must gallop towards a climax if not also a furious end

3 mins

India's uneven quest to master technology

Learnings from Delhi's past should help in shaping the future as the country bets big on new critical technologies

4 mins

A Women's Front to Boost Green Energy

India is expanding its renewable energy sector at a fairly rapid clip with new capacity expected to increase significantly enough by 2026 for it to outpace many major economies.

2 mins

Why are you so tired all the time?

How much of our exhaustion can we really attribute to the eternal-growth economy? Well, it’s interesting to think that the earliest self-help books date to the onset of the industrial revolution. Ever since, we've been told to do more, be more, get busier. The truth is, you'll never check off everything on your to-do list. You were never meant to. Kashyap Kompella writes on how we got here, and the paths we can take instead

5 mins

Are social skills in danger, in a hyper-connected world?

We are in contact with more conducting people today more social interactions and processing more information, on average-than would have been thought possible, through most of human history.

4 mins

From the sidelines

Two surprise releases — Anora and Marathi film Sthal — have met with mainstream success. It's time to head back to theatres

2 mins

Break on through to the other side

OF COURSE, THERE ARE SOME THINGS I WILL NEVER BE RIGHT-LEANING ON. BUT CERTAIN CONSERVATIVE INSTINCTS ACTUALLY FELT LIKE THE RIGHT FIT

2 mins

When a list just writes itself

We don't even have to make our own lists anymore.

1 min

SpaceX launches new crew to ISS as stuck astronauts prepare to return

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: The replacements for Nasa's two stuck astronauts - Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday night, paving the way for the pair's return after nine long months.

2 mins

US planning travel ban on 43 nations: Report

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's administration is mulling a new travel ban that would affect citizens from dozens of countries to varying degrees, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Friday.

1 min

US expels S Africa's ambassador, calls him "Trump hater"

The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a \"race-baiting politician\" who hates President Donald Trump.

1 min

Pak Stubbornness Led to the Death of 214 Hostages: BLA

The separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), which claimed responsibility for Tuesday's train attack, has said that its fighters had escaped with 214 hostages and since executed all of them.

1 min

Ukraine truce: "Putin will have to come to the table"

UK premier Keir Starmer said the \"ball was in Russia's court\" and that President Vladimir Putin would \"sooner or later\" have to \"come to the table\", after a virtual summit on Saturday to drum up support for a coalition willing to protect any eventual ceasefire in Ukraine.

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Did Not Want PM Modi, World Leaders To See Tents, Graffiti In DC, Says Trump

US President Donald Trump said he did not want Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other world leaders who visited him to see the tents and graffiti near federal buildings in Washington DC and has ordered the cleaning up of the American capital.

1 min

When hockey scripted India's first World Cup triumph in 1975

The sweltering March sun beat down on Kuala Lumpur that day, and 70,000 voices braving the heat roared in unison, a mix of passion and anticipation.

3 mins

All that went into IPL becoming a blockbuster show

Film trade pundits would describe IPL as a \"super duper\" blockbuster, but when it started 18 years ago, many thought it wouldn't work.

3 mins

Harman special carries Mumbai Indians to second league crown

Delhi Capitals end runners-up for the third time after batting caves in, losing the WPL final by 8 runs in Mumbai

3 mins

Man City stumble; Forest clinch win

Manchester City failed to ease fears of missing out on the Champions League next season after twice blowing the lead to draw 2-2 against Brighton while third-placed Nottingham Forest thrashed Ipswich 4-2 on Saturday.

1 min

'Timing farewell right is the key'

Virat Kohli shut down speculation about his retirement asserting that he is fully enjoying his cricket and his competitive streak remains intact.

2 mins

Antim, Deepak and Reetika Win Wrestling Trials

Olympians Antim Panghal, Deepak Punia and Reetika Hooda stamped their authority on the mat during the national trials on Saturday as they earned their spot in the Indian team for the upcoming Asian Wrestling Championships in Amman, Jordan.

2 mins

'When I bowl I don't look at the name or reputation of a batter'

IPL's highest wicket taker and Punjab Kings' big buy, leggie discusses holding his own vs power-hitters

3 mins

ILLUSTRATIONS: ADOBE STOCK MARTIN AND ARIJIT'S HOLI WITH 50,000 FANS

DJ Martin Garrix and singer Arijit Singh's concert on Holi left fans with a night to remember in Mumbai

1 min

Who is Aamir's new lady love, Gauri Spratt?

Ahead of his 60th birthday (March 14), actor Aamir Khan kept his annual ritual of a friendly media interaction.

1 min

Abhishek keeps you hooked in this sweet-as-sugar tearjerker

Be Happy

1 min

'As Gen Z actors, we have a lot of time to learn, evolve, have fun'

Actor Nitanshi Goel celebrated a year of her breakthrough performance in Laapataa Ladies (2024) recently, and insists that the past year has done \"wonders for me\": \"The fact that people still talk about it and my character, Phool, feels so special.

1 min

With each passing year, I care less about my popularity: Lee Dong Wook

World Kidney Day 2025, observed globally on March 13, highlights the theme \"Are Your Kidneys OK? Detect Early, Protect Kidney Health.\" The campaign underscores the importance of early detection and prevention to combat the rising burden of kidney disease worldwide.

2 mins

When Piyush Mishra sings, it's 'as an actor, not as a trained vocalist'

He is into theatre, music and writing, but Piyush Mishra likes to view each discipline through an actor's lens.

1 min

Esha says playing intense characters on-screen is 'thrilling and therapeutic'

As she gears up to make her silver screen comeback after a decade, actor Esha Deol says that working on a film \"felt like homecoming\".

1 min

Harmonies Redefined: The Trailblazers

Echoes of Rhythm: The Musical Journey of Taufiq Qureshi

1 min

Carrie-Anne has 'no regrets' on taking a break from movies

Canadian actor Carrie-Anne Moss recently revealed that she had \"strategically declined\" major movie offers after the success of the Matrix film trilogy.

1 min

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