Dipu Rai

Delhi is the worst case. But clean air is rare in other cities too. The data reported in this story reveal stark seasonal and regional differences across six Indian metros.

Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc won the most seats — but is eight seats short of a majority. The Arab parties and the president may now decide what happens next.

Brazil's president missed a big meeting in India to fight an election at home. He won. He leads the country in Latin America that trades most with India.

The Aam Aadmi Party won 92 seats in the 2022 Assembly polls. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, its vote share fell in nearly nine in 10 of Punjab's 117 assembly segments. The Congress and the BJP gained.

Delhi's fine-particle pollution has risen about a fifth since early October, and CPCB data shows its dirtiest hours come around midnight.

Satellites detected 327 farm fires in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh from September 15 to October 15. Delhi's average AQI was nearly unchanged from last year.

A 37-country survey finds Indians far warmer about social media than Americans or Europeans — but less likely than most to say it has changed people.

Protests against the Election Commission came at 23 times the usual pace in the 10 days to October 2. A joint protest is planned in Delhi on Saturday.

The revision has left about 13.4 crore names off draft rolls, a larger share in its third phase. In Delhi, nearly a third of electors are off the draft roll, as Opposition lawmakers march on the Election Commission and the Supreme Court seeks answers.

Xi Jinping got a rare runway welcome in Washington. But US data show China now supplies less than eight per cent of the goods America imports, down from 21 per cent.

More than half the state is in severe drought, the most since mid-September 2021. The state's first drought notice is due by Saturday.

A birth in a private hospital cost a family 16 times as much as in a government one in 2025. The government spent less than Rs 8 a day on each person's health.

A kilo of onions has doubled in price in a year. India's monsoon is 15 per cent short, but more than half of this year's rise in food prices came before it failed.

From October 15, most shops will pay 0.4 per cent on bigger UPI payments, capped at Rs 300. Customers and small merchants pay nothing.

This is the third in a three-part story. The institute that counts India's stubble fires added a line to its bulletins this year: satellites do not record fires lit when nothing is overhead. September 15 was the first time it appeared in a paddy season, the season that produced the 93 per cent fall everyone quotes.

The NPCI met with banks and payment firms on Tuesday to start setting a fee on UPI. The government has already fixed where UPI stops being free. Its own data shows 98 per cent of shop payments sit below that line.

This is the second of a three-part story. Punjab's crop-fire detections fell 93 per cent in five seasons. Delhi's worst days eased; its everyday autumn air did not. And the counted burning moved to the states next door.

Measured by what its economies produce, the bloc meeting in New Delhi has gone from 15 per cent of world output in 1992 to 40 per cent today. Measured in dollars, it's a smaller story.

This is the first of a three-part story. Everyone talks about the autumn stubble burning that's allegedly responsible for Delhi's bad air. But the spring burning that nobody mentions is usually twice as big.

For every Rs 100 Indian households hold in financial savings, they now owe Rs 32, against Rs 27 four years ago. Reserve Bank of India data shows borrowing running ahead of both savings and the economy.