Part of Italian Fashion Days, the panel discussion featured designer David Abraham, Vidyun Singh, Biraj Patnaik of the National Foundation of India, and Italian designer Francesco Corcione. The worlds of design and diplomacy came together recently as Giornate della Moda Italiana nel Mondo (Italian Fashion Days) opened at the Italian Cultural Centre in New Delhi….
NEW DELH: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta praised the Indian women’s cricket team for winning the Women’s ODI World Cup, defeating South Africa by 52 runs.She said that the victory is for “every girl with a bat or a book who now sees her own boundless potential mirrored in this shining triumph.” BCCI Honours Indian…
New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has informed National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it has formally taken possession of a 250 sqm plot in south Delhi’s Rangpuri from Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to construct a sewage treatment plant (STP) with a capacity of 6 million gallons per day. This project aims to solve long-standing sewage…
NEW DELHI: The air quality in the national capital deteriorated further on Monday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) near Anand Vihar and surrounding areas touching 371, categorised as ‘Very Poor’ by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).Visitors and residents expressed concern over the worsening smog. Shane, a foreign national visiting India, said, “It’s pretty…
New Delhi: With the winter setting in and foggy nights and dawns likely to reduce visibility, Public Works Department (PWD) has launched a maintenance drive to ensure streetlights remain fully functional across east and south Delhi. The Department manages over 90,000 streetlights along the city’s 1,400 km arterial network. Lights in major east Delhi corridors,…
New Delhi: Jagdish and Bharti, Pakistani Hindu refugees who fled Sindh’s Hyderabad in 2013 to seek shelter and dignity in Delhi, had built a life in a refugee camp in the city. On Saturday, though, their hard-won sense of normalcy was shattered in a matter of seconds when a speeding car hit their motorcycle near…
New Delhi: As smog thickens all over the city, its parks, once dotted with children, mostly stand eerily quiet. Parents are increasingly pulling their children indoors, fearing that the toxic smog might do them lasting harm.The air quality index has been hovering in the poor-very poor categories for quite some time and may even turn…
New Delhi: A new study by researchers from IIT Delhi and an international university found that today’s leading AI models perform well on simple tasks but struggle with the complex reasoning needed for autonomous scientific research.The study, titled “Probing the Limitations of Multimodal Language Models for Chemistry and Materials Research,” reveals that while vision-language models…
New Delhi: Police arrested an MCD contractual staffer on Oct 30 for allegedly cheating people by promising them free treatment under EWS quota at private hospitals. Posing as an employee at the CM’s office, Sonu, 27, used forged letters to defraud relatives of poor patients. His plans unraveled when a hospital in west Delhi’s Punjabi…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has directed authorities to furnish data on action taken to prevent damage to public property caused by defacement. A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela noted during a recent hearing that a policy to prevent damage to public property had been framed in 2015….
