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One of the world’s most polluted cities and home to some 20 million people, Delhi is cloaked every winter in a thick blanket of smog. (Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Delhi schools shut indefinitely as smog worsens

On Saturday, the Delhi government had ordered schools to close for a week and banned construction work for four days

Show of force: An Indian fighter jet flies over Leh, the joint capital of the Union Territory of Ladakh, on June 25. Photo: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP

India and China border conflict intensifies

A frontier dispute between the two Asian giants turned deadly for the first time in 45 years. Observers argue the skirmish was exacerbated by Delhi’s annexation of Kashmir and…

Food, and its fusion into new communities, has always reinforced the dynamic nature of society and the idea that civilisation’s greatest achievements have emerged from movement. (AFP)

Delhi: The city where food breaks down divisions

Delhi’s food — from the street fare to fine dining — stirs together what the ruling party seeks to divide: people across class, religion and caste

Health hazard: Traffic during heavy fog in Delhi. Air pollution has damaged the lungs of half the city’s children. Photo: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

Delhi health crisis linked to urbanisation

As the city expands, the state’s provision of infrastructure and basic services lags behind

Delhi is not the first state to be slapped with a fine by the green watchdog. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

Pollution watchdog fines Delhi over toxic smog

The National Green Tribunal penalised the capital administration for its lack of oversight

A pall of inaction and apathy hangs over Delhi’s reaction to its air pollution crisis.

Delhi should follow Beijing’s example in tackling air pollution

While India struggles for answers to its urban air pollution crisis, Beijing is moving forward with strong resolve and effective policy

The problem is further exacerbated by farmers who burn crop stubble after the harvest in northern India

Schools shut as toxic smog hits Delhi

Dense grey smog shrouded the roads of the world’s most polluted capital.

Simmering anger: The year was marked by protests in Zimbabwe. But the brutal state response

Santa lost his way in 2016 northern hemisphere smog

The blanket of clouds that sits over Europe for much of its winter traps pollutants from industries, causing them to float across the continent.

India remembers gang-rape victim

Candle-light vigils have been planned across India to mark the death of a female student a year ago who was gang raped on moving bus in Delhi.

New Delhi gang rapists sentenced to death by hanging

An Indian court has sentenced the four men convicted in the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman to death by hanging.

Matrics get their results

Weekend 101: Results are in

Matrics get their results, the world rages over the Delhi gang-rape victim, America avoids the fiscal cliff and SA’s road death toll rises.

Reports show Delhi gang-rapists tried to run over victim

A gang of men who savagely raped and beat a woman on a bus in New Delhi tried to run her over after the attack that left her fatally injured.

Jones a ‘perfect 10’ as crowds come out in Delhi

A full house roared Australian golden girl Leisel Jones to a 10th Commonwealth swimming title as Indians came out in numbers to support the Games.

Thousands of tckets unsold for Games

Thousands of tickets remained unsold for the Delhi Commonwealth Games Wednesday, just four days before they begin, with the troubled event also hit by another pullout from a star…

The new Asian tiger poised to match China

In the same way as commentators refer to the 1900s as the ”American century”, the 21st century is forecast to be Asian. If the scale and speed of growth can be maintained on both…

Delhi’s controversial clean-up

When Baldev Singh arrived to open his car parts showroom last September he found not customers but officials from Delhi’s municipal council at his doorstep. Part of a drive to…

Delhi digs deep to ease pollution

India’s capital made tracks into the future on Sunday when its first underground trains began to run. Designed to cut pollution and improve life for 14-million people crowded…

India set to get first Sikh PM

Sonia Gandhi, rejecting fresh appeals to become prime minister of India, named Manmohan Singh, a 71-year-old Oxford-educated economist, for the post this week, giving the country…