A combination of low wind speed, low tempe-ratures and fog has taken the Capital’s air to toxic levels again, prompting the Commission for Air Quality Management to enforce a ban on BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel vehicles in Delhi this week. In this case, low temperatures and placid winds have amplified the impact of local pollutants and pushed Delhi’s winter …
Hours after his meet with Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday termed the creation of a third front against BJP a “futile exercise” as he also denied his involvement in any such “overtures”. My meeting today also has no relation with tomorrow’s Rashtra Manch meeting,” said Kishor after his second meet with Pawar within …
The Pulwama attack and its aftermath offer India an opportunity to amend its China policy, which periodically falls back into the reverie that appeasing Beijing may somehow limit its adversarial stance towards New Delhi. The problem with India’s “appeasement” approach is twofold — one, it exposes the fact that India lacks any leverage with China on Azhar; and two, Beijing …
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