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Air India CEO calls crash tragic, awaits final probe report
Describing the crash of a Boeing 787 in June as “absolutely devastating,” Air India chief executive officer (CEO) Campbell Wilson on Wednesday said the airline continues to support affected families and staff while cooperating with the ongoing investigation.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘Nitish Kumar will remain Bihar CM after polls... no confusion in alliance’
PATNA: Bihar deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary categorically maintains that Nitish Kumar will remain chief minister if the NDA returns to power after the upcoming assembly polls.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Learning from Riyadh’s realism in foreign policy
Saudi Arabia's strategic calculus rests on five interlocking pillars: A firm finger on the global energy supply balance, custodianship of Islam's holiest sites, sovereign capital deployment, multi-vector diplomacy, and enabling domestic reforms.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
How IIT-K ‘success’ report ignores natural patterns
NEW DELHI: An unsigned report from IIT Kanpur, shared by Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Tuesday, contends that the cloud seeding experiment in Delhi was somewhat successful, citing rainfall data and air quality improvements at three locations.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
'15 STATIONS SET UP FOR TRIAL SHOWED 6-10% LESS POLLUTION'
A day after IIT-Kanpur conducted two cloud seeding trails in Delhi, the institute said that data collected from 15 air quality monitoring stations it specially set up across Delhi for its cloud seeding experiment showed a reduction of about 6-10% in PM2.5 and PMIO levels following the trial.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Delhi HC refuses plea on NCM chairperson
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking directions to the Union government to consider members of minority communities other than Muslims and Sikhs for appointment as chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Suzuki looks to drive revival with SUVs
TOKYO: Suzuki Motor plans to launch eight sport utility vehicles in India over the next five to six years as it looks to reclaim market share lost to rivals, the Japanese automaker's president Toshihiro Suzuki said on Wednesday.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
India put their dream on the line against Australia
In modern sport, it arguably doesn't get tougher than this. Australia are the team to beat in WODIs and have been it for a while. Since the start of the 2017 World Cup, their overall ODI record stands at an incredible 87 played, 78 won.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
2 south Delhi parks to be redeveloped
In a bid to reclaim and rejuvenate public spaces, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is set to revamp two key green zones in south Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar—the main park in the bustling Central Market and the Pant Nagar park.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
NDMC parking rates doubled from today
NEW DELHI: In view of the worsening air quality in the Capital, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Thursday ordered a doubling of parking fees at sites managed by the civic body across the New Delhi area.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Govt digs in, Oppn cries ‘rain theft’ as cloud-seeding trial is suspended
A day after two cloud-seeding operations over Delhi fell short of delivering rain, another round of seeding, planned for Wednesday, had to be called off due to “insufficient moisture” in the clouds, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur said on Wednesday.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Ammy Virk says even words like 'saala' are off limits in his film
In a decade-long acting career, Ammy Virk has moved effortlessly between Punjabi and Hindi films. While Punjabi cinema has allowed him to experiment with diverse roles, his Hindi outings, from Khel Khel Mein to Bad Newwz (both 2024), have largely showcased his comic side.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Pak: Will bomb Af Taliban back to caves if we face terror attack
Pakistan's defence minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday threatened to “obliterate” the Afghan Taliban and push them back to the caves in case of any future terror attack in his country, as ties between the two neighbours hit rock bottom after peace talks failed.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
NEW THERAPY OR DIGITAL TRAP? INSIDE THE RISE OF AI COMPANIONSHIP
As more young people turn to chatbots for connection, experts weigh in on whether AI relationships are healing emotional loneliness or deepening it
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Montha leaves trail of destruction in Andhra
Severe cyclonic storm “Montha” which made landfall near Narasapur between Kakinada and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday evening, left a trail of destruction across the coastal Andhra, leaving two people dead and causing widespread damage to homes, crops, and infrastructure.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Ex-CBIC official ‘ran’ drug cartel, held with ₹27cr of marijuana
The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested a 35-year-old man, a dismissed officer of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, for allegedly running an international drug cartel trafficking high-grade hydroponic marijuana.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
India, China agree to maintain LAC stability
Indian and Chinese military commanders have agreed to use existing mechanisms to resolve any ground issues along the border to maintain stability, even as the two sides continue the process of addressing the longstanding boundary dispute and normalising ties after a prolonged face-off on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Being held hostage by hustle culture? Experts share insights
In a world where success comes measured in metrics — followers, funding, fame — slowing down can feel like falling behind.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
REPUBLIC DAY-LIKE PARADE TO MARK PATEL'S BIRTHDAY
As the government celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a grand Republic-Day like parade involving contingents of all the central paramilitary forces, several States’ police, tableaux of over a dozen states as well as demonstrations by indigenous dog breeds will be held on October 31 in Gujarat’s Ekta Nagar.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
HC JUNKS 2008 ATTEMPT TO MURDER CASE AGAINST ACTIVIST
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has quashed a 17-year-old attempt to murder case against academic and activist Madhu Kishwar, terming it a “maliciously motivated counterblast” to a complaint she had filed earlier against the same family.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
145 ILLEGAL WATER TANKERS SEIZED AFTER NGT ORDER
Under a month-long crackdown on illegal water tankers ordered by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi Police told the tribunal in an affidavit that 145 FIRs were registered and an equal number of tankers seized between September 16 and October 15.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
72 new dengue cases in city; tally at 1,066
As temperatures began to dip, Delhi's dengue cases appeared to stabilise, with the city recording 72 new infections in the past week, taking the total case count to 1,06 till October 25, according to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)’s weekly vector-borne disease report.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
HC Bar asks chief justice to review one-Saturday-a-month work rule
The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) has written to chief justice DK Upadhyay, urging him to reconsider the recent decision requiring each bench of the high court to function on one Saturday every month.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
The history of caste in the Bihar assembly
The first story based on the database looked at the representation of Muslims in the Bihar assembly (https:/ bit.ly/BiharMus-limMLAs).
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
India, EU near consensus on trade pact
10 of 20 chapters closed, convergence likely on most of the remaining issues
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Odisha iron ore mining cap will hurt India’s growth: Govt to SC
Putting a cap on iron ore mining in Odisha will impede India's growth trajectory and sabotage the dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the Central and Odisha governments told the Supreme Court which is examining a petition on imposing a cap on extraction, similar to the ones it imposed in Karnataka and Goa in the interest of intergenerational equity in preserving natural resources.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Style with a cause
It was one of those evenings when everything just fell into place, the lights, the music, the laughter and a shared sense of purpose. The Capital recently played host to Saher Hone Tak - Ek Shaam Ruh Ke Naam, an event organised by the Savera Association.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
SC slams govt over lapses in EWS compliance at hospitals
The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned the Delhi government of contempt proceedings for failing to monitor and submit reports on whether private hospitals in the city, which received land at concessional rates, are complying with its directive to provide free treatment to patients from economically weaker sections (EWS).
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
India today stands as an emerging force on the global maritime map, says Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the maritime sector represents India's strength, stability, and sustainability.
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October 30, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Bihar remote controlled by BJP: Rahul, Tejashwi
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched the election campaign for the Grand Alliance (GA) on Wednesday from Muzaffarpur in Bihar along with the bloc’s chief ministerial candidate and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and others.
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