Author: Sumit Kumar

  NEW DELHI:  Ensconced on a sofa seat at his austere home in Delhi’s Rohini, Samyak Jain, 26, rubs his eyes in disbelief, knowing it well he suffers from Macular Degeneration, an incurable genetic disease that partially impairs his vision. But, not without the fistful of iron grit and his mother’s writings, he combined to overcome […]

NEW DELHI: In the age of social media, we are aware of those beautiful pictures captured by drone cameras. But capturing those breathtaking, memorable moments was only part of the job as drones have slowly established their usefulness in various other ways. When the Indian government announced its new drone policy – Drone (Amendment) Rules, […]

NEW DELHI: Once a fashion designer and now a full-time traveller, Prakriti Varshney made the history of sorts as she became the first “vegan Indian woman” to climb Mt. Everest when she reached the summit on May 12. Reliving her journey, the 26-year-old said, “The final climb totals 69 kilometres through ice and snow and […]

NEW DELHI: In what could be seen as a mega push for green mobility in the National Capital, the Delhi government is planning to roll out 2000 electric buses within a year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday. The announcement came a day after The New Indian published a report about Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai […]

NEW DELHI: Two prominent education campuses of Delhi are simmering with protests again. This time they are united against the arrest of Ratan Lal, the assistant professor of the Hindu College. He was arrested on Friday for a derogatory social media post about the discovery of ‘Shivling’ inside the Gyanvapi Mosque complex in Varanasi. Lal […]

NEW DELHI: Reiterating Bharatiya Janata Party’s stand against family dominated political parties, its president JP Nadda made a scathing attack on Congress. Addressing a seminar on the threat of Dynastic Political Parties To Democratic Governance’, Nadda said, “Congress is neither national nor Indian and not democratic party anymore and has become a bhai-behen party.” Citing […]

NEW DELHI: Some two and half years ago a massive fire had broken out in Anaj Mandi in Old Delhi which had gobbled 43 lives and then another fire in Arpit hotel in Karol Bagh had claimed 17 lives in 2019. Almost the same story was repeated when a warehouse was situated between Mundka Metro […]

Sounds of wailing, strong enough to melt even the stone-hearted, reverberated at the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Mangolpuri as a stark remembrance of the horrific inferno at a four-storied building in Mundka on Friday afternoon. Distraught relatives of missing persons waited with bated breath, hoping their dear ones are not on the list of […]

  NEW DELHI: An anti-encroachment drive was launched by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) in Shaheen Bagh, the center of anti-citizenship law protests, on Monday but was forced to halt it following a massive resistance. In heavy police presence, the officials of the SDMC arrived at the busy Shaheen Bagh market at around 11 […]

  With the COVID-19 restrictions lifted, the devotees drove in herds to the iconic Jama Masjid in New Delhi as Muslims in the country celebrated Eid-Ul-Fitr with devotion. The old city area of the capital is full of fun and fervour filled with colour with the aroma of delicacies, especially seviyan, filling the air, bringing […]