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

April 28, 2022 15:34 IST
Delhi heatwave explained: The national capital region is in the midst of a third heatwave this summer. What's the forecast? Why have temperatures remained persistently high? Is this normal?
Fri, Apr 29, 2022
April 28, 2022 01:47 IST
Residents of Shraddhanand Colony, close to the landfill, were worried about the flames spreading to their homes given the strong winds blowing all day.
Thu, Apr 28, 2022
April 23, 2022 20:48 IST
The main road is barricaded on both ends, with several personnel deployed on the road and standing guard at some of the gates that lead into the bylanes. Pedestrians were allowed past the barricades, but not vehicles.
Sat, Apr 23, 2022
April 23, 2022 03:13 IST
DCP (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi said that in areas around Lohri Gate, Sarai Rohilla and Sadar Bazaar, patrolling has been intensified, and Aman Committee meetings are being held here too.
Sat, Apr 23, 2022
April 16, 2022 21:21 IST
The body arrived in an ambulance around 4 pm, placed in a coffin inside a box, leaving the family inconsolable as the cover was lifted for those who had gathered to pay their respects. He was later cremated at the Hindon Ghat.
Sat, Apr 16, 2022
April 10, 2022 15:50 IST
On Sunday, a ‘test blast’ was done, with a small quantity of explosives inserted to determine what quantity will be necessary for the building.
Sun, Apr 10, 2022
April 09, 2022 02:04 IST
The ‘next-of-kin’ ceremony, where a family member of a soldier who died in the line of duty visits the National War Memorial and lays a wreath at the Amar Chakra, has resumed after a hiatus imposed due to Covid-related restrictions.
Sat, Apr 09, 2022
April 05, 2022 19:47 IST
All 38 meat shops at the INA Market were shut on Tuesday morning, said Ramesh Bhutani, president, INA Market Traders’ Association.
Tue, Apr 05, 2022
April 05, 2022 19:14 IST
This came as the BJP, which rules Delhi’s three civic bodies — South, East and North — doubled down on the directive, with its MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma saying meat shops across the country should be shut during Navratri, and the opposition — AAP, Congress and even former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah — hitting back.
Thu, Apr 07, 2022
April 03, 2022 04:14 IST
Numbers he knows from selling trinkets, alphabets from street signs around him, life from a lifetime spent on the streets. As the Delhi govt plans a boarding school for streetchildren, a 13-year-old expects that to be the sum of his education
Sun, Apr 03, 2022
March 31, 2022 19:16 IST
The fire at Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi could be put out after almost 48 hours. What makes such sites prone to frequent fires?
Fri, Apr 01, 2022
March 31, 2022 11:08 IST
Among cities in the National Capital Region (NCR), Delhi recorded the most “severe” air days this season (25 days), followed by Ghaziabad (16 days).
Thu, Mar 31, 2022
March 25, 2022 17:45 IST
Many buyers like Abhai Pratap Singh and Akhil Shrivastava had purchased flats in 2017. While Singh purchased at Hill Town and was supposed to have received it in 2018, Shrivastava bought a flat at Supertech Hues, Gurgaon, in 2017, and was promised possession in 2020.
Sat, Mar 26, 2022
March 25, 2022 02:11 IST
Attempts are also being made to reduce transmission losses by installing flow meters that can help track leakages and theft. Around 3,000 such meters have been installed so far.
Fri, Mar 25, 2022
March 22, 2022 02:02 IST
A total of 23,907 birds were counted. The highest number of species, 99, was recorded at Delhi’s oldest biodiversity park — the Yamuna Biodiversity Park, near Wazirabad, which was set up in 2002, and has both forest and wetland ecosystems.
Tue, Mar 22, 2022
March 15, 2022 01:27 IST
The towers are being demolished on the orders of the Supreme Court, and will be razed to the ground by May 22. Edifice Engineering, a company selected by the Noida Authority and the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, will bring down the towers in collaboration with Jet Demolition, a company from South Africa.
Tue, Mar 15, 2022
March 13, 2022 01:56 IST
Now with their homes burnt down, and a night spent under the open sky with nothing to eat or wear, these men, women and children have just one hope — resettlement in pucca houses.
Sun, Mar 13, 2022
March 12, 2022 09:55 IST
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the adults who died in the mishap, Rs 5 lakh each for the deceased children, and Rs 25,000 each to those whose jhuggis were burnt.
Sun, Mar 13, 2022
March 12, 2022 01:52 IST
The standards are applicable for discharge of effluent into sources of water, like the Yamuna where much of the treated water ends up, or land disposal, when some treated effluent is reused for horticulture.
Sat, Mar 12, 2022
March 11, 2022 03:59 IST
With the BJP set to form governments again in UP, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, Modi said: "A hill state adjacent to the border, a coastal state, a state with special blessings of Mother Ganga and a state on the northeastern border, the BJP has received blessings from all four directions."
Fri, Mar 11, 2022
March 10, 2022 16:18 IST
“Everybody had gathered against the AAP, they said Kejriwal is a terrorist. The people of the country have said that Kejirwal is not a terrorist, he is the real deshbhakt (patriot),” the Delhi CM said.
Fri, Mar 11, 2022
March 07, 2022 01:55 IST
The proposed tunnel is to be part of the NHAI’s project for NH 148AE. The 4.78-km long, six-lane stretch will end at Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant Kunj. Part of the project is the 2.8-km-long twin tube tunnel in the “ridge area”.
Mon, Mar 07, 2022
March 05, 2022 03:20 IST
Many stranded at Pisochyn — it was one of the places they were told to head to, the other two being Babai and Bezlyudivka — are students. Unable to board trains leaving Kharkiv, they walked 11 km to Pisochyn.
Sat, Mar 05, 2022
March 05, 2022 02:47 IST
Priyanka Goyal, a fourth-year student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, said she left the city, with a few others, on March 1, a day before the Indian Embassy advised all Indian nationals in Kharkiv to leave immediately.
Sat, Mar 05, 2022
March 04, 2022 01:37 IST
As many as 56 bastis, with about 9,350 households, and roughly 46,750 people, are on the floodplains, Zone O in the master plan, the report found. Of the total number of households, a little more than half (4,835) practise farming as a livelihood.
Fri, Mar 04, 2022



