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The water crisis brings woes for Vasant Vihar The water crisis gripping the Capital has reached the doorstep of Vasant Vihar, one of Delhi’s toniest residential colonies.The colony is reeling under a daily shortfall of one million litres of water, severely cramping daily life.‘It’s a miserable state of affairs. It’s completely ridiculous,’ said Prof P. […]

I write from my personal experience about the conservation activism to save the two natural features that define our city of Delhi – the Ridge forest and the river Yamuna and its flood plains. We worked on the ground, through the courts and on the knowledge base of these evolutionary natural resources. Some of this

Click Here to Read the Full Article in India Today Many had seen it happen in The Towering Inferno. Some had read about the 1982 fire in the MGM Grand casino at Las Vegas that consumed 468 lives. But, for most people in India, disasters of that variety were almost an alien proposition, belonging to

by VIKRAM SINGH CHHABRA, 2009 Click here to read full article The following is what happened at the Guru Harkrishan Public School in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi on the morning of November 1, 1984.I was a student in Grade 11 at the school and this is an account of my own experiences, and those of

Crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440 Flight 440 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu to New Delhi. A Boeing 737 named Saranga was used for the flight. As Flight 440 approached Palam International Airport in driving dust and a rainstorm, the aircraft struck high tension wires during a NDB