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Work starts on recreation riverfront plan
Riverfront to be ready in 6 months
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
PWD, NHAI review UER-II; to expedite safety, drain fixes
The Delhi government and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) held a review meeting on the Urban Extension Road (UER)-II on Wednesday to review key infrastructure challenges on the road and accelerate the pace of remaining works related to signages, drainage and service lanes, officials said on Thursday.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Sanitation campaign in last leg, but projects yet to start
Despite two-thirds of a month-long special sanitation drive being undertaken by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) elapsing and the campaign heading towards its final leg, councillors complained that the tendering process for many of the works planned under the scheme are still under process.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Man abducts infant boy for kin; rescued from Raj
A 32-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a three-month-old baby boy in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat to give the child to a relative who wanted a male heir, police said on Thursday.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
FOUR BENGAL TIGER CUBS IN ZOO HOSPITAL, THREE CRITICAL
Three of the six Bengal tiger cubs born at the Delhi zoo on August 4 have been admitted to the zoo hospital with an infection, officials said Thursday.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Instagram rolls out Map feature amid safety warnings
Meta-owned Instagram rolled out a new Instagram Map feature earlier this month, pitched as a way to use a “map to see content your friends and favourite creators are posting from cool spots”.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Marred by disruptions over SIR, stormy monsoon session ends
One of the most eventful sessions of Parliament, which witnessed the unexpected exit of former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, ended on Thursday, marred by disruption and the passage of some important pieces of legislation.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
MAN HELD FOR RAPING 10-YR-OLD GIRL IN NARELA
A 30-year-old factory worker was arrested for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl and threatening her in an abandoned building in Narela Industrial Area, outer Delhi, on Wednesday night.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Focus on trade as EAM meets Putin and Lavrov
India and Russia on Thursday explored ways to expand trade in a balanced manner, ensure long-term supplies of key commodities such as fertilisers and sustain energy cooperation, with external affairs minister $ Jaishankar saying bilateral ties were among the steadiest of the world’s major relationships due to geopolitical convergence.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Day after attack on CM, Delhi gets new police commissioner
Satish Golcha, director general (prisons), was appointed Delhi's new police commissioner, according to an official order on Thursday, a day after chief minister Rekha Gupta was attacked during a public hearing inside her residence.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
HC LAWYERS TO STOP WORK OVER ADVOCATE ASSAULT
Lawyers at the Calcutta high court decided to abstain from all judicial work from Friday after an advocate of the court and his son were allegedly assaulted by some policemen near their residence in Bidhannagar city on Wednesday night, people aware of the matter said on Thursday.
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August 22, 2025
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6 DELHI COURTS TO STRIKE OVER LG NOD FOR POLICE VIDEOCONFERENCE
All six district courts in Delhi will abstain from work on August 22 and 23 to protest a notification approved by lieutenant governor VK Saxena allowing police officers to depose from designated police stations through video conferencing.
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August 22, 2025
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TVK will script history in 2026 elections: Vijay
Actor-politician Vijay, who heads the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), on Thursday said the Assembly poll next year will see the TVK scripting a new chapter in Tamil Nadu's political history similar to the achievements of the regional parties in the 1967 and 1977 Assembly elections.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Panel recommends firing accused prof
Officials of the Delhi University's Ramjas College on Thursday said that the college's internal complaints committee (ICC) has recommended termination of service of a professor accused of sexual harassment.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
SC VERDICT TODAY ON PLEAS AGAINST STRAY DOGS ORDER
The Supreme Court is set to deliver on Friday its ruling on pleas seeking suspension of the contentious August 8 order directing the mass capture and sheltering of stray dogs in Delhi and four adjoining districts — Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad — in the National Capital Region (NCR).
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
GoM nod for simpler GST, but some states flag compensation
THE GST COUNCIL WILL NOW DECIDE ON REMOVING THE 12% AND 28% RATES, RETAINING 5%, 18% SLABS AND ADDING A SPECIAL 40% LEVY
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
China will stand with India against trade bullies: Envoy
Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong likened the US to a “bully” on Thursday and said Beijing will stand with New Delhi to uphold the multilateral trading system at a time when Washington is using tariffs to demand “exorbitant prices” from other countries.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘ONOE will aid India’s constitutional goals’
Union cabinet ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal and Bhupinder Yadav on Thursday voiced strong support for One Nation One Election (ONOE) ata symposium in Delhi, stating that the reform will not only transform the country’s economic landscape but also aid in achieving the constitutional goals of social, economic, political justice, equality and fraternity.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
NAIDU ORDERS FIR AGAINST PARTY MLA FOR ASSAULTING FOREST DEPT STAFF
AMARAVATI: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday ordered an FIR to be filed against his MLA, B Rajasekhar Reddy, for allegedly assaulting a forest department employee, a government official privy to the matter said.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
NO NEW AADHAAR CARDS TO ADULTS FROM OCT 1 IN ASSAM: HIMANTA
The Assam government will stop issuing first-time Aadhaar cards to people aged above 18 in the state as a precautionary measure to check illegal immigrants from getting Indian citizenship, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
SAVARKAR, AMBEDKAR IN UGC PROPOSES papers on leaders, thinkers
The University Grants Commission (UGC) released draft model curricula for undergraduate political science courses that include a core or compulsory course on “Tradition of Political Thinking in Bharat”, a discipline-specific elective on “Rajadharma Tradition in India”, and general electives on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, BR Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Basaveshwar and Thiruvalluvar.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Geeta Basra to make acting comeback after eight years
Actor Geeta Basra is set to return to the screen after an eight-year hiatus, with a Punjabi project.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Criteria tweak ‘cuts’ Assam forest by 99%
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August 22, 2025
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Chandni Chowk's ground zero
One of the many perspectives of exploring a historic district
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
‘Very perplexed’: Jaishankar on Russia oil claims against India
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday responded to the Trump administration’s repeated criticism of India’s purchases of Russian crude by dispelling claims by senior American officials and saying the US itself had asked India to help stabilise global energy markets by buying Russian oil.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
22-year-old who killed three of family arrested after failed suicide bid
A day after a couple in their 40s and their 24-year-old son were found with their throats slit at their home in Satbari Kharak village in south Delhi, police on Thursday said the murders were committed by the couple’s younger son, 22, who was apprehended after a failed suicide attempt at the AIIMS Metro station.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
Woman on FBI's ‘most wanted list’ arrested in India over son’s murder
NEW YORK: A woman on the FBI's ‘10 Most Wanted Fugitive’ list was arrested in India on charges of killing her six-year-old son, according to officials.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times
V-P pick Radhakrishnan missed Union cabinet bus twice in the past, once over name confusion
In the inner circles of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, CP Radhakrishnan’s nomination has brought joy not just because he's a grassroots leader from Tamil Nadu, but also because the 68-year-old narrowly missed high-profile Lutyens’ assignments narrowly—twice.
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Assembly to honour Vithalbhai Patel with exhibition, documentary
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August 22, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
MCD appoints two DDA reps
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) house meeting on Thursday elected two councillors - BS Panwar from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Krishna Devi Raghav from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ~as its representatives in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), officials aware of the matter said.
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