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Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

COVID and crematorium: Slum dwellers grapple with smoke, stench and fear of disease

9:52 pm April 25, 2021

New Delhi: The smoke hangs in an ash grey cloud over their homes and the acrid smell from more than 200 cremations a day doesn’t leave, they say, permeating as it were their very pores. For the residents of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Camp, living next to a crematorium is as much a struggle as keeping […]

Plan prepared to vaccinate all adults in 3 months: CM Kejriwal

‘Jahan Jhuggi, Wahin Makan’ scheme: CM asks officials to expedite flats’ allocation

5:47 pm April 8, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday directed officials of DUSIB and DSIIDC that any problems coming in the implementation of the ‘Jahan Jhuggi, Wahin Makan’ scheme should be brought to his notice ‘so that they can be effectively removed and families can be shifted to their new homes.’ Kejriwal held a review […]

Grief in Uttarakhand slum after hooch tragedy

3:39 pm September 21, 2019

Dehradun: Pathariya Peer basti in the city is cloaked in an uneasy silence, a day after six persons died in the slum colony after consuming illicit liquor. The silence is broken at times only by loud wails of the relatives and acquaintances who mourn those killed in the tragedy. The slum residents are visiting the […]