Neha Pushkarna

Exclusive: Gurugram will be super smart, says Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar shares his government’s plans for one of India’s fastest-growing urban sprawls that has its share of problems but the promise of an even brighter tomorrow.

‘The Dec 16 horror left me frustrated’: Excerpts from Sheila Dikshit’s memoir

In her memoir Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life, Sheila Dikshit traces her life in the capital, her plans to develop it into a modern city, CWG and life after losing Delhi.

Why Congress lost Delhi, Sheila Dikshit reveals in autobiography

Sheila Dikshit in her new autobiography reveals how Delhiites support to Aam Aadmi Party was one of the key factors that led to the Congress being voted out in Delhi elections

This Gandhi Jayanti, we follow trail of the Mahatma’s statues in Delhi NCR

October 2 is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti all over India, and is a national holiday. Ahead of this year’s celebrations,w e bring you a trail of the Gandhi statues across Delhi and NCR.

Government schools need urgent fixing

Our struggle for an education: Delhi’s great nursery admission mess

If Delhi can have world-class state-sponsored colleges, why not schools? And with a budget that saw 106% jump last year, and a government that claims education is a priority, it looks all the more possible writes Neha Pushkarna

Nursery admissions: What HC order on management quota means

On January 6 this year, Delhi government identified and scrapped 62 such parameters based on which schools were selecting students for admission.

'My generation failed Dilli-6': LG Jung reminisces about Old Delhi

Born in Daryaganj in 1951, Najeeb Jung still remembers his days in Old Delhi’s winding lanes. In conversation with Shivani Singh and Neha Pushkarna, he says Dilli-6 has to be revived in the next two years

Sewaiyyan, dates, pakora: Food biz on Ramzan high in Old Delhi

Under a net of silver confetti, 33-year-old Wasim lays out a platter of five different kinds of pakora around five every evening. As he waits for customers, often waving his red keffiyeh over the snacks, he is sure of one thing.

This system has defeated me: Ghantewala owner

Aromas of the Mughal era wafted through this second-floor kitchen near Fountain Chowk in Chandni Chowk for over two hundred years.

DU's 2nd cutoff list out: Find out your options on basis of marks

The second cutoff list of Delhi University are out. A few of you may have got a seat in a DU college while many of you are still waiting to find a course and a college that suits you. Here are a few choices.

Meet the Delhi teacher who recycles juice and milk cartons

Do you know that the little cartons of juice that you drink from can be recycled into notebooks, bags or even furniture? Sapna Sukul, a teacher from Vasant Kunj, found this out three years ago.

CBSE results: 50% marks or above 90%, options galore

The CBSE results may have brought cheer to some and disappointment to others but there are options for everyone. You can easily find a course and a college that suits you. Here are a few choices.

Delhiites power their own homes

Anyone with a sunlit terrace and the right to access it can mount the solar panels. There are two ways of doing it — either purchasing a plant or involving a third party that will set up the system on your roof-top and give you the solar power at a reduced rate.

Clean India drive lands in a dump in the Capital

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had walked on the Delhi streets, wielding a broom on October 2 last year. The PM wanted to bring about a change and wielded the broom to mark the start of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan — a social movement that would free the country of garbage, filth and help it embrace cleanliness.

A man's search for a lost Rolex watch gifted to him by his wife

When Douglas L came to Delhi this time, he had a Rolex on his wrist. Two weeks later, he is struggling to find it. While travelling in an auto from GK Enclave to Kailash Colony last Wednesday, the 45-year-old publisher from south China had slipped it into his pocket. That was the last time he saw it.

No-fail policy in govt schools under scanner

Govt wants policy restricted to Class III, teachers say rule creating academically weak generation.

Where spycams are a fad: Delhi grows into Republic of Sting

If you thought sting operations were the exclusive domain of journalists, whistleblowers and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members, think again. Be it women facing harassment at work or simply an aam aadmi trying to expose corruption, more and more Delhiites are relying on spycams to ‘make their case’.

In Delhi, women are still tortured for giving birth to girls

Sweets if it’s a boy. But faces hang when a girl is born. That’s how an attendant at a government hospital describes the arrival of a newborn in Delhi.

A history of abuse: When students attacked teachers in Delhi schools

A class IX boy thrashed his principal on the school premises in Tughlakabad last month. He broke the computers, smashed a television and vandalised the furniture besides leaving the principal bleeding behind the ear. The student had been rusticated last November for indiscipline but his terror still loomed large in school.

Humour mongers who tickled the funny bone during poll season

The recent Lok Sabha and the assembly polls have managed to tickle the funny bone of India with a spate of circulated jokes. Be it the antics of the Mufflerman or the goof-ups of the ‘Aunty’, the RajnikanthModi spat or a party scion dying to watch Doraemon, every joke went viral in no time.

Short but acrimonious campaign: Poll lexicon plumbs new depths

The slugfest started with haramzadon in December, gathered pace through a splattering of dharnebaaz, upadravi, chor and bazaru before hitting the mat with bhagoda.

Campaign solutions bring Delhi’s poll pot to a boil

An outsourcing overdrive has taken over the Delhi poll scenario as candidates pressed for time by the shortened campaign period have taken a leaf out of Narendra Modi’s election book to hire specialists to keep them a step ahead of their rivals.

Lights, march-past, action: The story behind the R-Day parade

Lights, march-past, action: The story behind the R-Day parade

Obama coming, fewer R-Day tickets for public this year

The defence ministry has decided to reduce the number of Republic Day tickets — from 32,000 to 19,000— to be sold to the general public this year.

It's no rocket science: Here's a Vedic add-on for speed maths

Away from the religious brush it is often painted with, Vedic Maths has followers across the globe and it could become the biggest Indian gift to the world other than yoga and curries.

Parents attempt to marry 13-yr-olds to save on dowry

A 13-year-old girl about to be married to a boy of the same age was rescued by a team of social workers and Delhi Police recently from Bhanwar Singh Camp near Vasant Vihar.

When schools become money-spinning machines

Balance sheets of several private unaided schools accessed through RTI revealed that they had not even spent 10% of their revenues on teachers’ salary.

Harassed by strangers, many women remain scarred for life

Fear of strangers is something women in the city never get rid of. These random strangers leave women terrified and sometimes scarred for life by groping, chasing and even feeling them up in public spaces.

Nothing's changed: 2 years after the Dec 16 gangrape, women still feel unsafe in Delhi

It has been exactly two years after the incident —when a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was brutally gang-raped on a moving bus in south Delhi — that shook the city and the entire nation, but women in the Capital say that nothing has changed even today.