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Hindustan Times Delhi
5X FUNDING JUMP FOR ‘PARIKSHA PE CHARCHA’: LS TOLD
The government's spending on Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) has jumped five-fold since its launch in 2018, when the expenditure stood at $3.67 crore, to 218.83 crore in 2025, according to the Union education ministry's data presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
K'TAKA HC RULES POCSO PROVISIONS GENDER NEUTRAL
The Karnataka high court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by a 52-year-old woman seeking to quash a sexual assault complaint filed against her under the protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act by the parents of a minor boy.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
DJB begins work on next set of STPs
Under the Delhi government project for rejuvenation of the Yamuna, the Delhi Jal Board has begun process for setting up the next batch of sewage treatment plants in parts of outer Delhi: a 15mgd (million gallons per day) plant in Zindpur, Northwest Delhi and a 17mgd plant in Mitraon near Najafgarh in Southwest Delhi. A set of seven smaller DSTPs will come up in Jaffarpur, Kazipur, Galibpur, and Sarangpur, officials said.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
MAHTO CLINCHES FIFER TO HELP CENTRAL DELHI QUEENS TRIUMPH
Nidhi Mahto
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘Entire district’? IIC on 990-acre land allotment
The Gauhati high court has expressed reservations over a state government decision to allot 3,000 bighas (around 990 acres) of land in Dima Hasao district to a private company to set up a cement factory.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
YOUTUBER JYOTI TO BE IN CUSTODY TILL AUGUST 25
ROHTAK: A Hisar court on Monday extended by seven days the judicial custody of YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who is under investigation for alleged espionage for Pakistan.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Education law notified; will bring relief to parents: CM
With the notification of the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fee Determination and Regulation) Act, 2025, chief minister Rekha Gupta on Monday declared it “a major victory for millions of parents in Delhi,” promising relief from arbitrary fee hikes by private schools.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Incentives to be sent directly to employees in central job scheme
NEW DELHI: Wage incentives to first-time employees under the PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana, a central plan to spur jobs, will be credited directly to staffers’ accounts and firms deregistered for irregularities under a similar scheme to cushion jobs during the pandemic will not be admitted, two officials said on Monday.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
HUMA TURNS PRODUCER: IT CAME OUT OF FRUSTRATION
Actors Huma Qureshi and Saqib Saleem have decided to stop waiting for opportunities and start creating them. The siblings have stepped into production, determined to tell the stories they once hoped others would entrust them with.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
WANG YI TO VISIT PAKISTAN FOR 2 DAYS THIS WEEK
China's foreign minister Wang Yi will arrive in Islamabad this week to attend the Pakistan-China strategic dialogue and hold meetings with the civil and military leadership to discuss bilateral ties as well as key regional and international developments, a media report said on Monday.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Bye, bye heat damage: Expert's guide to protecting your locks
Sleek and luscious, a good straightened hairstyle can be an accessory on its own. But when done improperly or in a rush, straightening can cause some serious damage to your locks.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
RS passes Ports Bill to overhaul maritime law
The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Indian Ports Bill, 2025, which replaces the Indian Ports Act of 1908 and introduces a modern regulatory framework for India’s maritime sector.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
{ DIGITAL LITERACY DRIVE } IN KERALA 105-yr-old man eldest among digital literates
KOCHI: A 105-year-old former imam from Kerala's Ernakulam district is the eldest among over 2.1 million people who have been adjudged “digitally literate” as part of an ongoing campaign in the state.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
5.7k flights cancelled in 2025, Govt tells RS
As many as 5,706 flights were cancelled by Indian carriers due to regulatory issues and geopolitical issues this year till June 30, the civil aviation ministry informed Rajya Sabha on Monday.
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August 19, 2025
Hindustan Times
SC to hear case of cadets disabled during training
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
U'KHAND MULLS MINORITY STATUS FOR NON-MUSLIM EDU INSTITUTIONS
The Uttarakhand Minority Educational Institutions Bill, 2025, was approved by the state cabinet on Sunday for tabling in the upcoming monsoon assembly session scheduled to be held on Tuesday at the summer capital in Gairsain of Chamoli district.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Newborn tiger cub being hand-reared at hospital
One of the four remaining Bengal tiger cubs born to tigress Aditi was admitted to the hospital in the early hours of Saturday and is now being hand-reared, with its condition “stable”, the Delhi Zoo said on Sunday.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Putin, Trump break the ice, Kyiv feels the chill
It was a meeting of the two titans. On the morning of August 15, Russian president Vladimir Putin landed at Anchorage Airport in Alaska. US president Donald Trump stood on the carpet awaiting his guest's arrival, and Putin, alighting from the plane, set the tone and tempo for the summit with his “dear neighbour”.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
TWO DOZEN SHOTS FIRED AT YOUTUBER ELVISH YADAV'S GGM HOUSE, PROBE ON
Unidentified men on motorcycles opened fire outside YouTuber Elvish Yadav's residence in Gurugram’s Sector 57 early on Sunday, police said.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Reading the outcome of the Alaska Summit
Expect a great power détente between the US and Russia that leaves Ukraine with few choices
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Farmers shift to maize as biofuel push drives sales
A longstanding trend of farmers preferring cereal crops over scarce pulses and oilseeds has been bolstered by a craze for maize and its area shows a meteoric rise over the past few years.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Poll roll 'fraud' claims false, need proof: CEC
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday called the Opposition’s allegations of “vote theft” during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and discrepancies in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar's electoral rolls false and baseless, saying that the public is being misled and the Constitution undermined through these charges, even as it again called upon Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to provide proof of the alleged voter fraud or withdraw his remarks.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Back on home ground: Astronaut Shubhanshu returns to India weeks after historic ISS sojourn
After his landmark journey to the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla returned to India to a warm welcome at the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi on Sunday.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Most sub-100 AQI days in Capital since 2020 as rains keep air clean
Showers on Sunday helped keep Delhi's air quality in the “satisfactory” range for the 53rd day this year, the most such days till August 17 in five years, according to CPCB data.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Maha guv Radhakrishnan to be NDA pick for V-P poll
CP Radhakrishnan, the governor of Maharashtra, was announced on Sunday as the National Democratic Alliance candidate for the Vice Presidential poll scheduled for September 9. The decision was taken by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s highest decision making body, the Parliamentary Board, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday evening.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
OBC face, TN veteran, RSS hand: An affable leader who keeps low profile
Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance's nominee for the upcoming vice-presidential election, was picked after detailed discussions with alliance partners, and the party’s ideological fount, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), people familiar with the details said on Sunday.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
Modi opens Delhi legs of 2 key highways to slash travel times
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed recent roadworks in the Delhi NCR as revolutionary as he inaugurated the Delhi section of the Dwarka Expressway and the Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II), along with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, and Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
2 MEN DIE WHILE CLEANING SEWAGE TANK IN NOIDA AUTHORITY STN
Two men cleaning a sewage tank on the Noida authority's Sector 115 pumping station premises died on Saturday afternoon.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari: We must balance creativity and commerce
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, the acclaimed filmmaker behind hits like Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017) and Panga (2020), recently joined director Shoojit Sircar on the jury panel for the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) to judge the short films category. Reflecting on the importance of supporting emerging talent, she says, \"It's necessary to encourage young filmmakers to have a voice and tell stories. This is a great platform because it’s an intersection of two countries.
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August 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
School merger plan becomes latest UP political flashpoint
THE U.P. POLICY SEEKS TO MERGE MORE THAN 10,000 SCHOOLS WITH FEWER THAN 50 STUDENTS INTO NEARBY INSTITUTIONS
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