Abhinaya Harigovind is a senior correspondent with the national bureau of The Indian Express, covering education as a beat. Working with The Indian Express since July 2021, she was a reporter with the Delhi city team of the paper, covering environment and climate change. She has also worked with The Hindu in Kerala. She tweets @abhi__naya

July 09, 2022 14:49 IST
BJP leader Kapil Mishra said the march is meant to be a message that the country will run according to the Constitution “and not the sharia”.
Sat, Jul 09, 2022
July 08, 2022 20:02 IST
Easterly winds and little rainfall even after the monsoon hit Delhi has taken levels higher than the past week.
Fri, Jul 08, 2022
July 08, 2022 01:50 IST
One day of heavy rainfall last week meant that the city has already recorded an excess for the month so far. So far in July, the Safdarjung weather station, which provides a marker for the city, recorded 119.8 mm, an excess of 270% over a normal amount of 32.4 mm till July 7.
Fri, Jul 08, 2022
July 01, 2022 20:56 IST
Some wholesale suppliers of such products say they stopped purchasing stock a while ago.
Fri, Jul 01, 2022
June 24, 2022 01:28 IST
At Naraina village, Kuldeep Tanwar said water and sewerage issues and a closed foot overbridge were major problems. “There are several lanes where water doesn't come at all,” he said.
Fri, Jun 24, 2022
June 23, 2022 16:34 IST
There are more than 1.64 lakh voters in Rajinder Nagar constituency, of which 92,221 are male, 72,473 are female, and 4 are categorised as ‘third gender’.
Thu, Jun 23, 2022
June 16, 2022 19:34 IST
The project is being implemented in South Delhi on a public-private partnership basis with Suez, and the MNWS, a special purpose vehicle, took over in 2013 with a contract period of 12 years, till December 2024.
Fri, Jun 17, 2022
June 13, 2022 14:21 IST
Top Congress leaders, including Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, K C Venugopal, were held as they tried to accompany leader Rahul Gandhi to the ED headquarters where he appeared for questioning in the National Herald case.
Mon, Jun 13, 2022
June 13, 2022 01:15 IST
Water shortage in the city this year has been exacerbated by an early summer and rainfall deficit. With the Yamuna drying up, the Delhi Jal Board is struggling to ensure supply to capital’s residents.
Mon, Jun 13, 2022
June 10, 2022 12:43 IST
The use of coal as a fuel will be banned across the National Capital Region from January 1, 2023. What is the reason for this? Will it have an impact on air quality? What could be the challenges in enforcing the ban?
Fri, Jun 10, 2022
June 08, 2022 01:46 IST
Over the past week, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified ozone as a prominent pollutant in Delhi on June 2 and June 6.
Wed, Jun 08, 2022
June 01, 2022 07:03 IST
An NGT order from 2013 states that concrete within a 1 metre radius of trees is to be removed. A notice was issued in 2019 by the forest department, informing all departments and civic agencies that concretisation of trees damages them and is an offence under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994.
Wed, Jun 01, 2022
May 29, 2022 07:58 IST
Repeated flooding also means it is difficult to protect saplings. Several hectares of the floodplains where saplings have been planted is low-lying land that is flooded in the monsoon.
Sun, May 29, 2022
May 28, 2022 20:19 IST
No heat action plan for Delhi is available on the Delhi government department websites, which was confirmed by a senior official of the environment department.
Mon, May 30, 2022
May 21, 2022 21:15 IST
Ritika, a class XII student and the youngest of the three siblings, added: “Karan was excited about the wedding. He wanted to help pay for everything. He would tell us about what he intended to buy.”
Sun, May 22, 2022
May 20, 2022 01:57 IST
The project, which began in 2020, aims to recreate 10 microhabitats or vegetation types of the northern Aravallis on 12 hectares of land at the sanctuary. Additionally, grasslands are being restored on around two hectares.
Fri, May 20, 2022
May 16, 2022 12:16 IST
Though heatwave over large parts of north and central India is an annual phenomenon in May, the maximum temperatures in areas of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir have been unusually high. Why have the temperatures been so high?
Tue, May 17, 2022
May 15, 2022 05:14 IST
Of the 27 confirmed deaths so far, 21 were women. While only eight victims, including five women, have been identified so far, 24 of the 29 in the missing persons’ list prepared by police – who are feared to be among the dead — are women.
Sun, May 15, 2022
May 14, 2022 20:26 IST
Sonam stopped studying after she completed class 12. She had been working at the office in Mundka for around 10 months, and would earn around Rs 6,000-7,000 per month, Anurag said. “The family lives in a rented home in Mundka, close to the office. Her mother works in a factory,” he added. The family is originally from Fatehpur.
Sun, May 15, 2022
May 09, 2022 19:08 IST
Police and the CRPF were deployed in the area for a demolition drive that was supposed to be carried out by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).
Tue, May 10, 2022
May 07, 2022 21:29 IST
A notice to the IWPC noted that the bungalow must be vacated by July 31.
Sun, May 08, 2022
May 07, 2022 19:46 IST
He was to soon take up the Defence Services Technical Staff Course at the Military Institute of Technology, Pune, said his father, Brigadier D S Ahlawat, who retired from the Jat Regiment of the Indian Army.
Sun, May 08, 2022
May 04, 2022 01:34 IST
As mandated by an order passed by the National Green Tribunal in 2019, the biomining of legacy waste began at Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla landfills in October 2019, according to data submitted by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to the Centre.
Thu, May 05, 2022
April 30, 2022 14:15 IST
The number of instances of heatwave or severe heatwave conditions reported across the country in April this year was 146, the highest since 2010, when 404 such cases were reported, the IMD said.
Sun, May 01, 2022
April 30, 2022 02:13 IST
A statement from the government Thursday had pointed to disruption of power supply from Dadri-II and Unchahar power stations that could lead to a problem in 24-hour power supply to essential institutions, including the Delhi Metro and hospitals.
Sat, Apr 30, 2022




