Delhi Metro records highest-ever daily ridership on Aug 8

IANS | August 9, 2025 9:25 PM

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Saturday announced that it had achieved its highest-ever single-day ridership on August 8, 2025, with 81,87,674 passenger journeys recorded across all operational corridors.

UP to observe ‘Partition Horror Memorial Day’ in all 75 districts on Aug 14

IANS | August 9, 2025 8:05 PM

Lucknow, Aug 9 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh government is set to observe ‘Partition Horror Memorial Day’ in all 75 districts of the state, under which the state residents will be made aware of the ‘pangs of partition’ and also enlightened about the adversities that the displaced families had to face, in its aftermath.

Will return land to farmers in Punjab if Akali Dal comes to power: Sukhbir Badal

IANS | August 9, 2025 7:15 PM

Baba Bakala (Punjab), Aug 9 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Saturday assured Punjabis that once they form a SAD government in Punjab it would return all land acquired by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to farmers on the same pattern in which it had returned land acquired for the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal to the farmers in 2016.