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Auto-rickshaws, cars and cycle-rickshaws on a tree-lined New Delhi road shrouded in thick grey smog, with a Chelmsford Road sign on the right.

GRAP Stage 1 is now in force in Delhi-NCR: what it means, and the bigger winter curbs due from November 1

Explained21 Oct3 min read8 sources

Advocates in black coats seen from behind walking along a colonnaded court corridor with case files, in an AI-generated representative scene.

‘Then you are not Gen Z’: Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka withdraw Delhi High Court plea against custody

21 Oct3 min read5 sources

Aerial view of Barren Island, a forested volcanic island with a dark ash cone emitting a white plume of smoke, surrounded by blue sea.

Baratang mud volcanoes, Barren Island and Sirpur added to India’s UNESCO tentative list

21 Oct2 min read4 sources

Tiger Shroff smiling in a dark jacket and white shirt in front of a colourful event backdrop.

Fan filming Tiger Shroff for his vlog moments before the attack was hit by a bullet

21 Oct2 min read9 sources

The curved tower of the Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai with its red BSE sign, seen from street level among trees.

Jio Platforms IPO explained: price band, lot size, retail quota and how allotment works

Explained21 Oct2 min read8 sources

Harmanpreet Kaur in a green Sydney Thunder kit and helmet playing a shot, with spectators behind a white picket fence.

Harmanpreet Kaur’s unbeaten 91 powers India to 92-run win and 3-0 T20I sweep of Zimbabwe

21 Oct2 min read2 sources

AI-generated illustration of a crowded Ramlila ground at dusk with a tall Ravan effigy and a giant cockroach effigy; not a photograph of the Pitampura event.

30-foot cockroach effigy burnt alongside Ravan at Delhi’s Pitampura Ramlila; organisers say it stood for filth

21 Oct2 min read8 sources

Night-time Ramnagar Ramlila scene with costumed performers beneath a decorated arch and spectators gathered around them.

In Ramnagar’s Ramlila, the audience travels with the story

Explained20 Oct2 min read3 sources

Anonymous athlete viewed from behind near a high-jump bar and landing mat, in an AI-generated representative stadium scene.

Nishad Kumar wins second Asian Para Games gold with record 2.04m jump

20 Oct2 min read4 sources

AI-generated representative rocket ascending over a coastal landscape with an exhaust plume against a blue sky.

Japan launches a five-year mission to bring back 10 grams from a moon of Mars

20 Oct2 min read3 sources

Musicians carrying large brass instruments among a crowded Kullu Dussehra procession, with decorated palanquins and hills beyond.

Kullu’s Dussehra brings the valley’s village gods together for a week

Explained20 Oct2 min read4 sources

Container cranes and a cargo ship at Auckland’s Fergusson Container Terminal at night, photographed in February 2014.

New Zealand removes tariffs on Indian goods as trade pact takes effect

20 Oct2 min read4 sources