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Delhi NGOs initiate a process to survey the city's homeless people and reach welfare schemes to them. IN the narrow lanes of Khari Baoli, Asia's largest wholesale spice and grocery market in the crowded Old Delhi area near the Red Fort, labourers grapple with heavy sacks of grain, pulses, and so on as they load them on to wooden trolleys or unload them from trucks. There is no room for...

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Nothing Common about this Wealth by Dunu Roy

Much of the daylight robbery in the name of Commonwealth Games has been justified in the name of "National Prestige" and "World class aspirations. Whether all these surreptitious measures will eventually deliver the games is an open question? The Commonwealth is a 'friendly' association of those 72 colonies which were once part of the British Empire and rose to free nationhood - some through protracted struggle and others through negotiation. In...

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HC slams MCD for razing slums in Games run-up by Utkarsh Anand

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday trained its guns on the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for demolishing hundreds of hutments in Kirti Nagar area last November while carrying out its drive to widen roads and beautify the Capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games starting on October 3 this year. “What do you (MCD) want to do? We think you want to show the foreigners coming for the Commonwealth Games...

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Delhi's homeless fight bitter cold and apathy by Gayathri Sreedharan

Shetty Chauhan, 60, died on the night of 12 January near a busy traffic roundabout in central Delhi. He had been ill with a heavy cold for eight days. Sitting on rubble next to his body just hours after he died, his wife Kamla explained that he had stopped eating and drinking tea prior to his death. When an ambulance took Shetty away, he was dressed in a light sweater and...

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