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The New Delhi Municipal Council recently announced that it will plant 4,000 bamboo saplings and 35 lakh shrubs across prominent roads and footpaths as part of its annual plantation drive this season. 

Trigger warning: Mentions of death by suicide

Byju Raveendran, the co-founder of ed-tech giant BYJU’s, was held guilty of contempt by the Delaware Bankruptcy Court in the US on Monday, July 7. The court also imposed civil sanctions worth USD 10,000 per day on him beginning July 1. Byju had maintained that the Delaware court does not…

From branding South Indians as “yandu gundu” in the 70s to targeting North Indians as “bhaiyas”, regional identity has long been the Thackeray brand’s go-to political weapon – first with Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, then with Raj Thackeray’s breakaway Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. Decades later, with both Uddhav and Raj politically…

In the immediate aftermath of war this summer, India’s establishment, media cells, B-Team media and a co-opted celebrityverse determined on a zero sum approach. Terror means war. Blood means water denial. Collaboration in non-strategic areas means boycott. 

दिल्ली सरकार ने पिछले हफ्ते वायु प्रदूषण को औकात दिखाने के लिए क्रांतिकारी कदम उठाया. एक जुलाई से उसने दस साल पुराने डीज़ल और पंद्रह साल पुराने पेट्रोल वाहनों को तेल बेचने पर रोक लगा दी. इस ऐतिहासिक क्रांति ने दो ही दिन में दम तोड़ दिया. 

Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, and Pooja Prasanna. What happens when a Congress-led government lifts language from a BJP MP’s bill to fight fake news? Karnataka just gave us the answer. 

The Delhi government plans to install 150 outdoor purifiers at Nehru Park to filter out PM2.5. Last month, Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced that the decision was based on “successful” trials in four locations in the city.

Contradicting the Narendra Modi government’s statement, X said on Tuesday that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had requested the social media platform to block access to the handles of Reuters and Reuters World, apart from 2,300 other accounts, in India.