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Veteran journalist, diplomat HK Dua passes away

Hari Krishan (HK) Dua, former editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times, died on Wednesday after a brief illness.(Karun Sharma/HT)

Updated on Mar 06, 2026 06:10 am IST

Old maps reveal lost north Delhi lake; public land may aid restoration: Intach

Current satellite imagery indicates that most of the area has now been built upon.

Updated on Mar 04, 2026 12:44 pm IST

Painter, architect, fighter: A Satish Gujral exhibition

From the centennial exhibition on renowned artist Satish Gujral at the National Gallery of Modern Art. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

Published on Jan 17, 2026 04:24 am IST

I-Day Special: How Partition reshaped Delhi – and its soul

The 1941 census recorded Delhi’s population at 917,939. By 1951, after the influx of Hindu and Sikh refugees and the departure of many Muslims, it had nearly doubled to 1.74 million. (Wikimedia Commons/Photo division)

Updated on Aug 15, 2025 03:36 pm IST

‘Panikkar was ambitious, brave and tried it all — a real Renaissance man’

KM Panikkar (right) with Mao Zedong when he was Indian Ambassador to China, in Beijing. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jul 19, 2025 07:39 am IST

A new excise policy is in the works for Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta

Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta during an interview with HT in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

Published on Apr 03, 2025 05:28 am IST

Delhi: The River and the City

A bridge of boats across the Yamuna, as viewed from Delhi, in 1858. Photo by Felice Beato (Getty Images)

Published on Mar 24, 2025 06:28 am IST

Pursuing world record, Meerut bizman’s son dies in Chile road mishap

Mohit Kohli (Sourced)

Published on Feb 14, 2025 09:58 pm IST

What the Delhi verdict means for Atishi

Chief minister Atishi (ANI)

Published on Feb 09, 2025 08:02 am IST

Delhi doesn’t look like capital of fifth largest economy: Jay Panda

Baijayant Panda at his house in New Delhi on Friday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

Published on Jan 31, 2025 10:15 pm IST

‘In Delhi, the BJP is the only alternative for people’: Anurag Thakur

Anurag Thakur at his Akbar Road residence. (Sanjeev Verma/HT Photo)

Published on Jan 25, 2025 04:13 pm IST

People of Delhi know AAP is fighting for them: Atishi to HT

Delhi chief minister Atishi during the interview with HT at the Aam Aadmi Party headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Sanchit Khanna/ HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 22, 2025 09:55 am IST

BJP is the one facing anti-incumbency over law and order in Delhi... not us: Manish Sisodia

AAP leader Manish Sisodia at his house on Rajendra Prasad Road on Friday. (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 05:02 am IST

Bigotry, bias, acceptance: For EWS kids, school life a mixed bag

This winter, the parents of a six-year-old EWS student at an east Delhi school could not get him winter jacket with his uniform. (PTI)

Updated on Dec 18, 2024 03:04 am IST

Iconic fashion designer Rohit Bal dies weeks after final show

Fashion designer Rohit Bal presented his last collection “Kaaynaat: A Bloom in the Universe” as a part of the FDCI x Lakme Fashion Week, in New Delhi on October 14. (ANI)

Updated on Nov 02, 2024 08:51 am IST

On Gandhi Jayanti, retracing the Mahatma’s lesser known footsteps in parts of Old Delhi

Mahatma Gandhi. (Getty Images)

Published on Oct 02, 2024 09:22 am IST

Celebrated poet and former intelligence officer Keki N Daruwalla dies at 87

Daruwalla’s last rites were carried out on Friday afternoon at the Parsi Aramgah in Delhi. (HT Photo)

Updated on Sept 28, 2024 07:56 am IST

Election In Pincodes: Women’s safety still a pressing concern in West Delhi

Delhi’s 11 million women face the scourge of violence in myriad and mundane ways in a city that has become an unfortunate emblem for the problems of public safety and order. (HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 15, 2024 05:51 am IST

Parliament breach: Perpetrators' social media activity shows misguided fixation

Gurugram police and a crime branch team outside the house where the accused stayed overnight. (HT/Parveen Kumar)

Updated on Dec 14, 2023 03:21 am IST

15 years after Soumya Vishwanathan's murder, is Delhi safer for women now?

Forensic experts examine the car of 25-year-old television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, who was driving back home on September 30, 2008 in her car when she was shot dead on a desolate stretch on Nelson Mandela Marg near Vasant Kunj around 3.30am. (HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 19, 2023 04:26 pm IST

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