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aap, bjp spar over city's rain tragedies

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government for severe waterlogging in Delhi after heavy rain, prompting a sharp counterattack from t... Read More


Rain, waterlogging gridlock Ggm expressway

Gurugram, Aug. 15 -- Continuous heavy rain on Thursday morning triggered massive traffic snarl on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway (NH-48) near Narsinghpur which was severely inundated, officials said. Alm... Read More


Tree, wall collapses claim 3 lives in city

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Continuous rainfall that started in the early hours of Thursday has once again left Delhi with mortalities, three this time, caused by a tree collapse in Kalkaji and a wall colla... Read More


Despite big economic gains, many gaps remain

India, Aug. 15 -- In a memorable speech delivered to the Constituent Assembly on the eve of Independence on August 14, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru outlined the country's basic, social and economic o... Read More


A call to forge a sense of national identity

India, Aug. 15 -- Ipropose 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, Ma... Read More


when children his age learnt the alphabet, he went to jail

India, Aug. 15 -- At an age when most children are busy learning the alphabet and numbers, Iqbal Singh was learning the harsh realities of oppression - inside a prison cell. Now 89, the freedom fighte... Read More


'My family was placed under house arrest'

India, Aug. 15 -- Dharam Kumar Singh was 10 when the Quit India Movement swept across the country in 1942. His grandfather, father and uncles were deeply involved in mobilising people against the Brit... Read More


'I am happy with the country's progress'

India, Aug. 15 -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak is widely regarded as the father of the Indian national movement. He was a prominent nationalist leader, social reformer, and freedom fighter who played a crucial... Read More


'I went underground to evade arrest, used to hide in jute fields'

India, Aug. 15 -- Today, the nation marks its Independence Day. But 101-year-old Narayan Chandra Maiti, a resident of Chakdurgadas, a remote village in West Bengal's East Midnapore district, is still ... Read More


What makes Mondo's record-breaking world tick

Mumbai, Aug. 15 -- 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... Read More