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It is ironic that many elderly people are happy to just be with their children despite being ill treated, says a counsellor. Photo V.Sudershan.
The old, the battered and the lonely….
While major policy initiatives are needed to protect the rights and interest of the aged, at the ground level the aged believe greater sensitivity is all they need to survive well in their old age.
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Did not supply poor quality water to North Delhi: DJB
In a statement issued on Saturday, the DJB said there was no joint water testing exercise undertaken by it and the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
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Redevelop Lutyens’ Zone, but don’t touch the greens, says DUAC
Not opposed to high-rises, Mr. Rewal said, the Commission wants the new development to be in sync with the existing design.
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Rs.25 lakh, property documents seized from CBI inspector’s house
SP Vivek Dutt claimed he was falsely implicated and alleged that a conspiracy was hatched to keep him out of the coal block allocation probe team.
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Savings of a lifetime, gone in a flash
About Rs.3 lakh that Mr. Rawat had saved since his retirement in 1991 had been withdrawn using the ATM card that someone had exchanged with a defunct one a month ago.
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More Delhi News
NEW DELHI,
May 20, 2013
Angioplasty saves life of 104-year-old
Doctors at the Metro Hospital and Heart Institute here have successfully performed angioplasty with stenting on a 104-year-old patient to save his life. Giving details of the case, cardiolog...
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May 19, 2013
The ‘take back’ model
With increasing amounts of e-waste from households and small offices posing a huge threat to the environment, the World Bank’s private sector investment arm — International Finance Corporation (IFC...
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May 18, 2013
Growing city
Shahjahanabad – built by Shahjahan. That is what Shahjahanabad actually means. Just as Tughlaqabad means built by Tughlaq and the meaning of Akbarabad? Well, built by Akbar. In this last exc...
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May 18, 2013
Equal spaces
How often do you see a person with disability out shopping, watching a film in a theatre, using public transport or even just hanging out with friends at a public place, asks Meenu Rani. To...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2013
December 16 gang-rape victim’s mother deposes in court
Deposing before the special court hearing the December 16 gang-rape case, the mother of the 23-year-old victim made a fervent plea for justice for her daughter. After her cross-examination...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2013
NGO claims discrepancies in discoms’ accounts
Even as Delhi’s power regulator gets ready to announce a new tariff plan for the city, non-government organisation Chetna has claimed that the accounts submitted by the three discoms that form the...
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NEW DELHI,
May 17, 2013
Living theatre
“A sense of humour, subtlety, patience, tolerance, all that has to be there, but unless you have the tenacity you cannot sail through life,” says Nageen Tanvir, recalling the qualities that helped...
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NEW DELHI,
May 17, 2013
A brand new story
There is still a long way to go but all that debate about reinventing our museums as spaces of deeper engagement seems to have induced some change. At National Museum, a slick new website that is...
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May 19, 2013
Wired in toxicity
Electronic waste from as far away places as the United Kingdom and the United States ships its way to a cheek-by-jowl populated area in East Delhi Seelampur to be hammered, torn apart, chipped away...
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NEW DELHI,
May 19, 2013
Maintenance Tribunals: A ray of hope
With cases of harassment of elderly citizens by their own family, mainly sons and daughters, on the rise, nine Maintenance Tribunals were set up in the nine districts of Delhi to provide redress t...
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May 18, 2013
Cupfuls of memory
N. Gopalan Nair arrived in Allahabad in 1967 during the heyday of the Socialist movement. He was brought here as an aide by a Keralite woman, the second wife of an Allahabad-based doctor who again...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2013
Haryana agrees to release more raw water for Delhi
Haryana has agreed to release more raw water to Delhi from Tajewala out of the share of Uttar Pradesh in the Yamuna and this would help the Capital city in generation of more water at its Sonia Vi...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2013
Subhash Chopra to be DPCC chief again?
The decks appeare to have been cleared for former Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhash Chopra to again take over the reins of the party unit and barring some last-minute changes that...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2013
Shinde asks BSF officers to be considerate to jawans’ problems
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday gave gallantry awards to Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at the paramilitary force’s 11th Investiture Ceremony where he asked officers to be “...
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NEW DELHI,
May 17, 2013
It’s all in the family
Twenty-year-old yet the boyish charm refuses to give way to sterner expressions. Many would say, he’s still young, isn’t he?
But, what if Yuki Bhambri’s countenance has already acquired a...
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Slideshow
The award-winning photojournalist of the 'Afghan Girl' fame delivered a scintillating keynote address at the launch of The Hindu Lit for Life 2013 in Delhi. Snapshots of Steve McCurry telling his story in pictures.
VIDEO
Through books, one is 'lit' for life, says Nirmala Lakshman, Director, Kasturi and Sons Ltd., as she welcomes you to the 2013 iteration of The Hindu's literature festival. For those who want to know what to expect, this video offers a sample of the magical connect of words at Lit for Life, with excerpts from a film by Prasanna Ramaswamy, a Chennai-based theatre-person and filmmaker. Open to all, the fest kicks off in New Delhi on February 6 and then moves to Chennai (February 16 and 17). Schedules available at http://thne.ws/lfl-schedule For more details, go to http://www.thehindulfl.com/
VIDEO
In this charming clip, the Former West Bengal Governor talks about his role in the latest iteration of the literature festival. Open to all, the fest kicks off in New Delhi on February 6 and then moves to Chennai (February 16 and 17). Schedules available at http://thne.ws/lfl-schedule For more details, go to http://www.thehindulfl.com/
The old, the battered and the lonely….
Savings of a lifetime, gone in a flash
The ‘take back’ model
Rs.25 lakh, property documents seized from CBI inspector’s house
Wired in toxicity
December 16 gang-rape victim’s mother deposes in court
Did not supply poor quality water to North Delhi: DJB
Delhi rape accused poisoned in jail, claims lawyer
More power to solar energy
Maintenance Tribunals: A ray of hope
