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From an Indian pot passed down generations to a simple serving dish, the emotional ties to seemingly everyday objects

Mandi House in Delhi is well-known even to casual visitors: it’s the headquarters of Prasar Bharati and Doordarshan, it houses the National School of Drama, and it sees hundreds of young artists gathering every day to hone their skills.

Thousands of people visit Delhi’s Anand Vihar ISBT to go in and out of the city. Anand Vihar area is also one of Delhi's most polluted areas, where the AQI here is consistently in the ‘unhealthy’ category. 

The Delhi Police has informed a Delhi court that journalist Rana Ayyub’s tweets on Hindu deities and Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, for which she was booked in January, are no longer available on X, Bar and Bench reported.  

Digital rights advocacy group SFLC.in has filed a writ petition before the Delhi High Court, challenging a December 2024 notification by the Delhi Lieutenant Governor that empowers Delhi Police officials to issue takedown notices for online content.

Despite being a first-time MP, Karan Bhushan Singh has landed one of Lutyens’ Delhi’s most coveted government bungalows – Type VIII, typically given to senior officials, lawmakers or ministers. 

Delhi and Islamabad continue airspace ban for each other’s flights a month after the deadly Kashmir attack

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist and CGNet Swara’s co-founder Shubhranshu Choudhary.We start with a discussion on the killing of 27 suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh this week and analyse if the Maoist movement in…

As India strengthens ties with Kabul, Pakistan and Afghanistan return to the table after Chinese mediation.