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Indian Army began a counter-offensive Thursday night after Pakistan attempted to hit Indian military facilities. Blackouts were imposed in over 15 cities, from Srinagar to Chandigarh to Bhuj.
“Aaj phone nahi kiya sab theek-thak hai beta (You didn’t call today… is everything okay?)”.
A sense of dread gripped Satbir Brella, a driver who lives in New Delhi’s Palam colony, as his WhatsApp text to his London-based daughter Harshita Brella, 24, at the crack of dawn on November 13 remained unread for hours.
It was extremely unlike his younger daughter, nicknamed Sweety, who spoke to her family daily since moving to London on April 30, after her marriage to Pankaj Lamba, 23.
After a 40-minute video call on November 10 — while she was making pakoras, palak puri and aloo sabzi at her London house — Harshita seemed to have gone missing.
Every day, 200 men and their horses spend hours training to be the fittest and the finest. For the President’s Bodyguard, the most senior regiment of the Army tasked with escorting the country’s first citizen, there is zero scope for error.
Divya A visits the President’s Estate where the men and their steed match their steps.
Mumbai's Ring Road masterplan, accessed by The Indian Express, outlines a vast road network across the #Mumbai Metropolitan Region, stretching from Vadodara to Alibaug.
This network, featuring roads, flyovers, and underwater tunnels, aims to ease Mumbai's notorious traffic bottlenecks by 2029. Once complete, it will transform connectivity and public transport in both the city and its surrounding areas.
The #Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), the planning authority of the metropolitan region, has approved building an additional 90.18 kilometres of road network at an estimated cost of Rs 58,517 crore.
Speaking to #TheIndianExpress, the younger woman, one of two women that were paraded naked and sexually assaulted in #Manipur, said: “The police were there with the mob which was attacking our village. The police picked us up from near home, and took us a little away from the… https://t.co/D3BdnhNT6otwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A day after a video of two women from the Kuki-Zomi community being paraded naked and sexually assaulted in #Manipur surfaced, one of the victims told The Indian Express that they had been “left to the mob by the police”.
Last week, the Delhi government reopened its schools for all grades after almost two years of closure. On Friday, The Indian Express followed Class II student Mohammed Zaid on his first day back — to understand the challenges a long hiatus in learning could pose. #schoolsreopen
When 7-year-old Mohammed Zaid left home for his first day of school, he said he could not remember the friends he had in kindergarten before pandemic struck. He only had a memory of a friend named Ayush Kumar, but he had not spoken to him for the almost two years of no school.
Across Delhi, schools reopened for primary and middle school children on February 14 after an almost two-year closure, punctuated by fits and starts of unsuccessful reopening attempts in November 2021. #schoolsreopen#COVID19