India brings in immediate night-time curfew for New Delhi after country saw a record surge in Covid-19 cases with more than 100,000 in a day The night curfew will be in place from 10pm to 5am in India’s capital, New Delhi Essential services and travelling to and from vaccination centres are exempt India had the … Read more
Bollywood supercouple Gauri and Shah Rukh Khan open their exquisitely designed New Delhi home on Airbnb Though the power duo now reside in Mumbai, their Delhi home remains ‘a special place of deep nostalgia’ They raised their three children there and continue to use the property when visiting the capital city The couple said: ‘The … Read more
A 70-day bus journey from London to Delhi will take in Moscow, Prague and even the Great Wall of China in an incredible new £15,000 excursion across 18 countries. The ‘Bus to London’ is the first ever ‘hop on, hop off’ service between India and England and will accommodate 20 passengers on the 12,000 mile … Read more
Girl, 14, is raped by a coronavirus patient while his friend stood guard in a bathroom at India’s largest quarantine centre in Delhi as country’s Covid-19 death toll passes 30,000 14-year-old victim had been at the Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre for one week Police arrested two men after the victim reported the attack to a … Read more
Dead bodies have reportedly piled up in hospital lobbies as India’s capital fast runs out of hospital beds and struggles to contain the pandemic amid a surge in coronavirus cases. It comes after critics said it did too little to prepare and reopened shopping malls and temples too soon. Some families of people infected with … Read more
Zoe Hauser, 67, in a New Delhi hotel where she is being quarantined for 21 days Fears are growing for an elderly British school principal who is being held in a New Delhi hotel during India’s coronavirus lockdown. Zoe Hauser, 67, has developed a high temperature and her concerned family is pressing the Foreign Office … Read more
Four men are executed over the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi that shocked the world Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all executed The four were hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in India’s capital on Friday Their deaths mark the first executions in the … Read more
Sporadic violence hit parts of Delhi overnight as gangs roamed streets littered with the debris of days of sectarian riots that have killed 33 people, police said Thursday. Thousands of riot police and paramilitaries patrolled the affected northeast fringes of the Indian capital of 20 million people, preventing any major eruptions. The unrest is the … Read more