A journalist with 7+ years of experience, I pretty much inhale and exhale news – figuratively speaking. Cooking, reading and playing with my dog take up the remaining hours of my normal day. I have an inclination for true crime stories, and love listening to such podcasts.
Articles by Sharangee Dutta
Arguing over Yamuna cleaning, BJP MP calls govt official ‘ghatiya aadmi’ | Video
Speaking about the argument, BJP MP Parvesh Verma said that the AAP-ruled Delhi government is pouring poisonous chemicals into the Yamuna River and if he has to “talk in this manner for the benefit of the people” then he has no problem.
Updated on Oct 28, 2022 07:45 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘In Europe, bird will fly by our rules’: EU digital chief's warning to Elon Musk
European Union's commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton also posted an old video of him and Elon Musk wherein they both signalled agreement on the bloc's digital media regulation.
Updated on Oct 28, 2022 02:57 PM IST
'Had to defend our house': Taj ex-GM remembers brave staff during 26/11 attack
Talking about the bloodshed that occurred during the 2008 attacks, KS Kang, who was the general manager of Taj Hotel at the time, said that “Atithi Devo Bhavo (guests are God)” is not just a slogan for them, and the “world saw it that day”.
Published on Oct 28, 2022 01:42 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
This city recorded worst AQI in past 24 hours, it's not Delhi: Check full list
Delhi's air quality index (AQI) remained in the “very poor” category for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday.
Published on Oct 27, 2022 08:58 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘PM said big things…now enjoying power’: Rahul on exodus of Kashmiri pandits
Congress' media head Pawan Khera on Thursday demanded that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government at Centre release a white paper on the plight of the minority community from Jammu and Kashmir during its eight-year rule in the region.
Updated on Oct 27, 2022 07:49 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Bag with 18 detonators, wires recovered from taxi stand of Jammu railway station
A suspicious bag was found near the taxi stand of Jammu railway station on Thursday. Later, the explosives were recovered from two boxes that were inside the bag, police said.
Updated on Oct 27, 2022 05:04 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta | Reported by Ravi Krishnan Khajuria, New Delhi
BJP's Gambhir tweets old letter to Kejriwal amid Ghazipur row: ‘Chunav mendak…’
BJP MP Gautam Gambhir, under whose constituency the Ghazipur landfill site falls in east Delhi, said on Twitter that he visited the venue eight times in the past three years since 2019 and despite asking Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal multiple times to visit there, he did not.
Updated on Oct 27, 2022 04:21 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Rajnath hails PM Modi for Article 370 abrogation; hints at retrieving PoK
Defence minister Rajnath Singh took a dig at Pakistan, saying the country is committing atrocities against the people in its occupied Kashmir, and added that India's neighbour will have to “bear consequences”.
Updated on Oct 27, 2022 02:16 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘Utmost priority’: New UK PM Sunak vows ‘stability’ against economic crisis
After his triumph in the UK Tory Party leadership contest, Rishi Sunak said that it is the “greatest privilege” of his life to give back to the country that he “owes so much”. UK PM-designate, Rishi Sunak vows ‘stability & unity’ against economic crisis
Updated on Oct 24, 2022 11:21 PM IST
Ind vs Pak again, this time between Zomato's ‘Virat your service’ and Pak app
The Twitter banter began on Sunday before the match started between India and Pakistan. Careem's Pakistan responded to an October 21 tweet of Zomato wherein the food delivery app asked its 1.5 million followers, “Lights laga li?”
Updated on Oct 24, 2022 08:09 PM IST
Cyclone Sitrang: Storm less than 250km from Bengal; landfall likely at midnight
Cyclone ‘Sitrang’ battered several coastal regions of West Bengal, and even brought downpour in Assam on Monday morning. Multiple NDRF teams have been deployed in Bengal and Tripura for relief work in preparation to deal with the storm's aftermath.
Updated on Oct 24, 2022 11:20 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘Our aim is to save lives, not do politics’: Delhi minister on firecracker ban
Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai said that when our ancestors celebrated Diwali, there were no firecrackers as those were not produced. “The priority of every religion is to save the lives of the people,” he added.
Updated on Oct 23, 2022 10:35 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘Gift…on Diwali eve’: Leaders hail Team India, ‘genius’ Kohli after win over Pak
Congress veteran Shashi Tharoor said he declined to get on a scheduled flight from Goa in order to not miss the India vs Pakistan match entirely.
Updated on Oct 23, 2022 10:53 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Rajasthan Police share ‘Diwali Dhamaka’ for those who disrupt communal harmony
Taking to Twitter, Rajasthan Police shared two graphic posts wherein they cautioned the public against disrupting the communal harmony and spreading fake news. They said that the wrongdoers will be given “special treatment”.
Updated on Oct 23, 2022 06:11 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Kejriwal responds to PM Modi's ‘revdi’ culture remark: ‘Don’t insult public…’
PM Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the ‘revdi’ or freebies political culture by saying that taxpayers are pained when they see the money collected from them are spent on “distribution of revdi (freebies)”.
Published on Oct 23, 2022 04:15 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
RSS body slams AAP govt in Delhi for firecracker ban: ‘Hurting sentiments…’
The RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch said that the burning of firecrackers “illegally” imported from China causes air pollution due to the mixing of potassium nitrate and sulphur in them, and not the green ones manufactured in India.
Updated on Oct 22, 2022 11:09 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Woman, who allegedly ‘fabricated’ gangrape incident in Ghaziabad, held: Reports
Ghaziabad Police said on Thursday that the woman made up the entire abduction and gangrape incident against the five suspects named in the case as they had a land dispute with her.
Updated on Oct 22, 2022 10:53 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
MP: Man killed while resolving couple's fight over cooking chicken at home
Police said the woman refused to cook chicken at home on a Tuesday, following which, her husband assaulted her. Some of their neighbours reached their home and resolved the dispute, but later, the husband went to the house of the victim and attacked him with a stick.
Updated on Oct 22, 2022 07:17 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Ruled by cops as ‘staged’, DCW asks CM to form panel to probe UP gangrape case
Ghaziabad Police said on Thursday that they have substantiated “confessional statements” of three friends of the woman with forensic and electronic evidence before arresting them.
Published on Oct 22, 2022 05:46 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Anurag Thakur takes dig at AAP ahead of Himachal polls: ‘They have nothing’
Union minister Anurag Thakur said that Himachal Pradesh will benefit from the “leadership” of PM Narendra Modi at the Centre and chief minister Jai Ram Thakur in the state in the upcoming assembly elections.
Published on Oct 22, 2022 04:06 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
PTI to challenge Pak Election Commission's disqualification ruling against Imran
Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse on Friday, PTI leader Fawad Hussain Chaudhry called the verdict a “shameful decision” and one that has “disgraced the 220-million-strong-nation”.
Published on Oct 21, 2022 06:58 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Cops drag away protestor by legs during stir over bribe-for-jobs scam in Kolkata
Over a hundred protestors, mostly women, were removed from the agitating spot near the head office of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education in Kolkata's Karunamoyee in a midnight crackdown on Thursday on the orders of the Calcutta high court.
Updated on Oct 21, 2022 04:20 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘Is this respect?’: Kharge asks PM after Union min defends Bilkis Bano convicts
Taking to Twitter, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also mentioned some BJP leaders reportedly attending a virtual ‘Satsang’ organised by rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is currently out on a 40-day parole.
Updated on Oct 20, 2022 11:00 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Cong prez polls over, focus likely to move back to Rajasthan crisis now: Report
The state has been gripped with political turmoil with loyalists of chief minister Ashok Gehlot and former deputy CM Sachin Pilot sparring over speculations that the latter will take over from the CM.
Updated on Oct 20, 2022 09:31 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Will Rishi Sunak be next UK PM? Odds say yes...
A new poll on Wednesday revealed that Indian-origin Rishi Sunak would defeat Liz Truss if Tory party elections were to be held now.
Updated on Oct 20, 2022 10:33 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Kharge tweets on falling rupee, BJP's Malviya hits back: ‘Aap Cong ki girawat…’
BJP IT-cell chief Amit Malviya shared an infographic on Twitter, which showed rupee depreciation against the US dollar in comparison to other currencies such as the Euro, Great Britain pound and Australian dollar, among others.
Updated on Oct 20, 2022 08:18 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘Read history’: Gehlot slams BJP MP over ‘rubber stamp’ remark on Kharge
BJP leader Rajyavardhan Rathore on Wednesday called newly elected Congress president a “rubber stamp” and also called the internal elections of the grand old party “fraud and drama”.
Updated on Oct 20, 2022 03:57 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
‘Despite bravado…no Kejriwal to tutor’: Malviya on Sisodia's show of strength
Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia claimed that a fake case has been slapped on him despite the CBI not finding anything from his home and bank locker the last the agency had raided those.
Updated on Oct 17, 2022 02:34 PM IST
'Waiting a long time for this': Sonia Gandhi as Cong votes for non-Gandhi chief
The Congress presidential elections are taking place after a gap of 22 years between party veterans Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. The last time polls happened, Jitendra Prasada had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Sonia Gandhi.
Updated on Oct 17, 2022 01:08 PM IST
‘Whatever happened…we remain friends’: Tharoor and Kharge share bonhomie
Both Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor cast votes for the Congress presidential elections. While Tharoor exercised his franchise in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Kharge did so in Bengaluru.
Published on Oct 17, 2022 11:44 AM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi