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Groundwater exploitation is silently sinking the ground beneath India’s feet

Agricultural practices in northwest India are heavily dependent on groundwater withdrawal. With limited monsoon rain, the groundwater table is precariously low, show data gathered for years by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB).

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IPL 2023 | Punjab Kings knock out Delhi Capitals with 31-run win

Indian Premier League 2023 Delhi Capitals vs Punjab Kings match in New Delhi

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‘This is the culture’: The Indian wrestlers fighting sexual abuse

Top Indian wrestlers are risking their careers to take on the powerful federation chief and a wider culture of abuse.

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India's opposition Congress scores big win in Karnataka state election, defeats BJP

India’s main opposition Congress party registered an emphatic win in elections in the southern state of Karnataka on Saturday, defeating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a big boost to its prospects ahead of national elections due next year.

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US President Biden invites India’s Modi as state guest to burnish ties

US President Joe Biden has invited the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, as state guest on 22 June as Washington pulls out all the stops to strengthen trade and security ties with the world’s largest democracy.

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Karnataka election results 2023 | Triumphant Congress looks at battles ahead

After the resounding victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed a press conference, in New Delhi on May 12.

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Jalandhar by-poll results | People of Punjab have voted of politics of work and defeated dynasty politics: Arvind Kejriwal

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on May 13 said that AAP’s win in the Jalandhar by-poll was an unprecedented victory.

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Asymmetry and power: on Delhi government and administrative services

Yet another Constitution Bench verdict underscoring the representative character of the Government of the NCT of Delhi may not be end the power struggle in Delhi

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MS Dhoni has found his best again: Graeme Smith

Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith said MS Dhoni has “found his best again” in a 27-run win over the Delhi Capitals at the Chepauk Stadium on May 10.

The Hindu

Cruise case: CBI books Sameer Wankhede, four others on graft charge

“The searches were conducted in Mumbai, Delhi, Ranchi, Lucknow, Chennai and Guwahati.”

The Hindu

Delhi HC asks Centre to respond to U.K.-based journalist’s plea challenging OCI card cancellation

The Delhi High Court on May 12 asked the Centre to respond to a plea by a U.K.-based Indian-origin journalist Amrit Wilson challenging cancellation of her OCI card for her alleged involvement in “detrimental propaganda against the Indian Government”.

The Hindu

Women-only 'pink parks' envisioned for all civic wards in Delhi, says Deputy Mayor Iqbal

Work has begun on identifying locations for establishing women-only ‘pink parks’ in all Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) wards, Delhi Deputy Mayor Aaley Mohammad Iqbal said.

The Hindu

‘Question of security’: Delhi HC tells Sudarshan News to take down video calling accused ‘jihadi’

Underlining the question of “security” of a man accused of forceful conversion and rape, the Delhi High Court has ordered Sudarshan News, social media platforms and government authorities to take down content terming him “jihadi”, Bar and Bench reported.

Newslaundry

SC to constitute bench to hear AAP govt's plea on transfer of Delhi's services secretary

Delhi government on Friday moved the Supreme Court alleging that the Centre is not implementing the transfer of its services secretary. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Meghalaya CM meets Scindia, submits proposals to set up heliports, airport

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on May 12 met Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in New Delhi and submitted proposals to set up heliports and an international airport in the northeastern State to boost tourism.

The Hindu

Delhi HC asks media, Google, Twitter to block links articles claiming Muslim man forced woman to convert

The Delhi High Court on May 12 directed certain media houses and social media platforms, including Twitter and Google, to block the links of news reports and videos claiming that a Muslim man allegedly forced a woman to convert to Islam.

The Hindu

Delhi excise scam | Court extends Manish Sisodia's judicial custody till June 2

A Delhi court on May 12 extended, till June 2, the judicial custody of AAP leader Manish Sisodia in a corruption case related to the alleged excise scam.

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Streets ahead: a landmark for the Delhi newspaper run by homeless children

Balaknama’s reports on sexual abuse, police brutality and child labour, written by teenagers, have transformed lives in India

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‘People are boss’, ‘power where it’s due’: Editorials on SC verdict on Delhi powers

A day after the Supreme Court granted a major victory to the Delhi government in its tussle for power with the centre, editorials in prominent English dailies noted that it proves that “people are the boss” and the union government “would do well to heed the larger message”.

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China ministers' India trips show warming of relations

Relations between two neighbouring countries and the world's first and second-most populous countries, China and India, have witnessed a downward spiral in recent years after the bloody clash between the two countries' border troops in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the…

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Delhi vs Centre row: L-G does not have sweeping executive powers over national capital, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) does not have sweeping executive powers over the national capital, and the Centre should be mindful of the unique “asymmetric federal model” of governance adopted for Delhi.

The Hindu

The problem with India’s multi-alignment stand

The geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific and the Ukraine conflict are in many ways inter-connected

The Hindu

SC verdicts in Delhi L-G, Maharashtra political row cases seminal and path-breaking: Congress

Welcoming the Supreme Court judgments on the Maharashtra political row as well as the one that defined the Delhi government’s legislative and executive powers, the Congress on May 11 described them as “seminal and path-breaking”.

The Hindu

Priests meet apostolic nuncio in Delhi

A four-member team from the presbyteral council of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church met Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, head of the Vatican diplomatic mission in India, on Thursday in New Delhi.

Dynamite News

We've got to just keep working on getting better: DC's assistant coach Shane Watson

The Delhi Capitals fought their hearts out, but went down by 27 runs against Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Wednesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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