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Hindustan Times Delhi
Survivors recall screams, then a ‘deafening silence’
“I don’t know how I survived.. it's nothing less than a miracle,” said Sanjay Kumar (42), a resident of Udhampur, as he recounted the carnage that unfolded at a community kitchen in Kishtwar district of Jammu & Kashmir after it was struck by flash flood on Thursday afternoon.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Melania Trump asks Hunter Biden to retract his remarks on Epstein
WASHINGTON: First lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
{ ON DUTY DURING OP SINDOOR } Posthumous Vir Chakra for 2 BSF soldiers
The government on Thursday awarded Vir Chakra — India’s third-highest wartime honour — posthumously to two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel for their heroic act during Operation Sindoor. President Droupadi Murmu also approved 16 BSF personnel for the gallantry medal for their exceptional bravery during India's direct military response to the Pahalgam terror strike.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Aid groups call on Israel to end ‘weaponisation’ of aid in Gaza
DEIR AL-BALAH: Over 100 nonprofit groups warned on Thursday that Israel's rules for aid groups working in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank will block much-needed relief and replace independent organisations with those that serve Israel's political and military agenda — charges that Israel denied. At the same time, hospital officials reported more deaths from Israeli airstrikes and an increasing toll from mal-
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Report: Over 35% vehicles on city roads overspeed
Over a third of vehicles on Delhi roads were found motoring above prescribed speed limits, with heavy and commercial vehicles accounting for the most offences, according to a study on 600,000 roadside observations collated between December 2021 and April 2025.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times
Roads paralysed, agencies immobile
Heavy rain triggered waterlogging across Delhi on Thursday, cutting off many of the Capital's most crucial road links as unprepared authorities struggled to tackle the ensuing logjam and clear the streets, with half-baked measures leaving thousands of commuters stranded in traffic for hours, well after the showers ended.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Introducing... Sachin Tendulkar's future bahu
Arjun Tendulkar, son of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, is engaged! The 25-year-old cricketer got engaged to Saaniya Chandok, granddaughter of Mumbai-based businessman Ravi Ghai, in a private ceremony on Wednesday, as reported by India Today. Only close family and friends were present.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Pragmatic manoeuvres
Reset in India-China ties is in step with India’s pursuit of strategic autonomy
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
FMCG giants focus on online advertising
Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Marico Ltd, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd, and other consumer goods companies are allocating 30-50% of their media budgets for online advertising, ina shift away from traditional media such as television.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
The doctor, father, hockey star will be missed by all
They say, “Never meet your heroes.” Those people obviously never enjoyed the calming, charming, chuckle-a-minute company of Vece Paes, the winner of an Olympic bronze medal with India hockey team in Munich 1972 and a doctor of medicine with a pioneering role in the anti-doping initiatives of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Super League (ISL).
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
A call to forge a sense of national identity
I propose to speak bluntly and sincerely about the state of the nation 50 years after Independence. I would be dishonouring the memory of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and of his mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, if I try to be economical with the truth.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Biting into the spirit of independence
From Tiranga-themed foods and festive brunches to special Independence Day offers, here's how restaurants are serving patriotism in a plate
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Bedil’s man in Dilli
On city poetry
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
CHINA: DISCUSSIONS ON WITH INDIA TO RESUME FLIGHTS
China on Thursday said it is in close communication with India to resume direct flights between the two countries, amid speculation that the two sides are preparing to restart air connectivity very soon after a gap of five years.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Kin of Al-I71 crash ground victims hire US law firm
Families of 10 people killed on the ground in the Air India Flight AI-171 crash have hired Beasley Allen, the prominent US aviation law firm that secured billions from Boeing over the 737 MAX disasters, as the firm expands its representation of those affected by the tragedy in Ahmedabad on June 12.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
What makes Mondo’s record-breaking world tick
There are times Mondo Duplantis visualises or jokes about random things he could do with his talent. Jump over a two-storey building perhaps. Maybe across a creek as well. He'd even fancy-God forbid he should ever be in that situation, he adds-an escape from prison.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
An Independence Day message from Red Fort
Witness to India’s battles for freedom, the monument tells us that the nation must choose, unfailingly and unflinchingly, between social collapse and social cohesion, between the poison of hate and the nutriment of harmony
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
How India’s demographic profile has changed over last 8 decades
Independent India turns 78 today with an estimated 1.46 billion population compared to just 346 million in 1950. To be sure, it's not just the number of Indians which has changed in the last almost eight decades. The demographic profile of Indians has also changed significantly. Here is how.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Delhi Zoo gets 2 otters from Guj
Two smooth-coated otters arrived at the Delhi Zoo on Thursday afternoon from the Surat Zoo in Gujarat. The species was last seen at the zoo in 2004.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Building an equitable nation for our tribes
When Independence came, the leaders should have given it some consideration that the British were here to exploit India, and not to make it a flourishing economy.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
After Munir’s threat, India warns Pakistan of ‘painful consequences’
India on Thursday warned Pakistan of “painful consequences” to any misadventure while responding to “warmongering and hateful comments” from the top Pakistani civilian and military leadership, including army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir's threat of using nuclear weapons.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
The Sound of Music turns 60 in the city
What film could make generations hum its songs decades after its release? For many, it's the 1965 American musical drama The Sound of Music.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Cong relied on deceit to win polls: Shekhawat
The BJP on Thursday continued its attacks against the Congress over its allegations of irregularities in the electoral rolls, saying the opposition party and the Gandhi family have always had “double standards” about the issue of free and fair polls.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
'I went underground to evade arrest, used to hide in jute fields'
Today, the nation marks its Independence Day.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
PREZ, DEFENCE MINISTER MEET 30 TRIBAL STUDENTS FROM ANDAMAN
President Droupadi Murmuand defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday met with 30 meritorious higher secondary students from tribal communities of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as part of a seven-day national integration tour.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
'INDIA'S THE PLACE TO BE TODAY, TOMORROW, ALWAYS'
He's been the talk of the town ever since he bagged his first National Film Award for Best Actor for 12th Fail (2023). On Independence Day today, actor Vikrant Massey, 38, gives his first interview since the win.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
BASTAR VILLAGES TO HOIST TRICOLOUR FOR THE FIRST TIME
For the first time since India’s Independence, the Tricolour will be unfurled in 14 remote villages in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar — once considered Maoist strongholds, police said.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Rainfall lays bare govt's august claims
On Thursday, Delhi received the second heavy spell of rain of the season, hammering the city's streets and washing away months of civic bravado.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Zelensky meets UK PM as EU braces for summit in Alaska
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to London on Thursday in a show of the UK's support for Ukraine a day before a critical US-Russia summit is set to take place in Alaska.
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August 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Kaziranga loses oldest ranger as Mohanmala bids farewell
Mohanmala walked into the dense marshes of Kazi-ranga in May 1970 - a plucky elephant, calm and composed, but fearless.
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