Delhi

So the next time you set foot into either Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport or Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), remember you are in one of the world’s best airports - ranked number one by the Airports Council International (ACI), a trade association of 1,953 airports in 176 countries.

The pollution levels in Delhi/NCR become a concern during Diwali - and then all the concern seems to vanish. I wish the alarming pollutants would also just vanish.

According to the municipal body, these ‘smart poles’ will be operational in the NDMC area by the end of March.

Delhi has a history that is as colourful as it is interesting. Yet few Indians know the actual story of how Delhi became the Indian capital.

“The stigma that menstrual health and hygiene carries in India is something that I am unable to understand."

The Department of Archives and the Centre for Community Knowledge of Ambedkar University in New Delhi will now attempt to fill gaps in history by collecting anecdotes and compiling them in an online archive.

Dr Mathew Varghese is working tirelessly to make lives of polio patients easier, and to help them walk on their feet without assistance.

Anju Pathak, Manu Gulati, and Deepti Chawla are three among the six teachers selected from India for this professional development program.

Under this scheme, the Delhi government is allowing 52 specified surgeries, free of cost, at private hospitals in Delhi/NCR. These include heart bypass, cataract surgery and 17 types of kidney surgeries.

The entire concept of transforming metro pillars into vertical gardens to fight pollution in addition to beautifying its surroundings was adopted in India after its implementation in Mexico City went viral on social media last year.