New Desert City

New Zealand's city streets were largely deserted on Wednesday as the country returned to life in lockdown for the first time in six months in a bid to halt any spread of the infectious Delta variant of COVID-19.

A new video has emerged online that showed three men robbing a man in Delhi's Raghubir Nagar area. The robbers first beat up the man with a belt, then rob his belongings and even force him to take off his pants in the deserted street.

Delhi's most popular handicrafts destination, the Dilli Haat remains empty despite the easing of pandemic restrictions in the last few days, with stall managers ruing of no business.

Egypt's government wants to start running the nation from a new capital in the desert from mid-2020, but the $58 billion project is struggling to raise funds and needs to overcome other challenges after investors pulled out.

Joshua Rubin, a lifelong New Yorker, was outraged about children being separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The final straw was the massive tent city of detained migrant teenagers in a tiny Texas town straddling the desert and the Rio Grande.

After relying on oil to fuel its economy for more than half a century, Saudi Arabia is turning to its other abundant natural resource to take it beyond the oil age -- desert.

Dondurma is a Turkish ice cream that defies ice cream laws. The concept of this ice cream is new to India, the only two probable outlets located in city of Noida.

Bhadla village on the fringes of the Thar Desert about 200 km from Rajasthan's famed Jodhpur city wasn't on the tourist map and nobody ever went there. It only made headlines for extreme heat, temperatures that went up to 52 degrees in the summer. But the sun's bounty is now helping change the lives of the people. It is the heart of India's clean e...

A 29-year-old woman who has been deserted by her NRI husband has sought help from External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. She has requested the minister to get him deported from New Zealand. Though her husband, Ramandeep Singh, has been declared a proclaimed offender by the Punjab Police, Chand Deep Kaur has requested Ms Swaraj for help, saying th...

Riteish sings, day dreams and whiles away time at a local bar, a fish market and the outskirts of the city while Nargis continues to make appearances in his imagination. Riteish and Nargis also have a Titanic moment but on a rusted and deserted boat

More than two years after the completion of a new $17 million (Rs 111 crore at 1 dollar = 65.31 rupees) terminal building, the airport in Jaisalmer, the remote desert city in Rajasthan, stands empty.

A 45-year-old woman was allegedly molested by a man while she was taking her evening walk in central Delhi's Lodhi Garden yesterday. According to the woman's statement to the police, the man, who seemed drunk, attacked her at around 6:30 pm on Sunday. He allegedly pushed and shoved her and attempted to drag her to a dark and deserted spot. The woma...

A man has been granted divorce by a Delhi court on the ground that he underwent "tremendous" cruelty because of his wife, who deserted him just a month after marriage.

New Zealand's city streets were largely deserted on Wednesday as the country returned to life in lockdown for the first time in six months in a bid to halt any spread of the infectious Delta variant of COVID-19.

A new video has emerged online that showed three men robbing a man in Delhi's Raghubir Nagar area. The robbers first beat up the man with a belt, then rob his belongings and even force him to take off his pants in the deserted street.

Delhi's most popular handicrafts destination, the Dilli Haat remains empty despite the easing of pandemic restrictions in the last few days, with stall managers ruing of no business.

Egypt's government wants to start running the nation from a new capital in the desert from mid-2020, but the $58 billion project is struggling to raise funds and needs to overcome other challenges after investors pulled out.

Joshua Rubin, a lifelong New Yorker, was outraged about children being separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The final straw was the massive tent city of detained migrant teenagers in a tiny Texas town straddling the desert and the Rio Grande.

After relying on oil to fuel its economy for more than half a century, Saudi Arabia is turning to its other abundant natural resource to take it beyond the oil age -- desert.

Dondurma is a Turkish ice cream that defies ice cream laws. The concept of this ice cream is new to India, the only two probable outlets located in city of Noida.

Bhadla village on the fringes of the Thar Desert about 200 km from Rajasthan's famed Jodhpur city wasn't on the tourist map and nobody ever went there. It only made headlines for extreme heat, temperatures that went up to 52 degrees in the summer. But the sun's bounty is now helping change the lives of the people. It is the heart of India's clean e...

A 29-year-old woman who has been deserted by her NRI husband has sought help from External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. She has requested the minister to get him deported from New Zealand. Though her husband, Ramandeep Singh, has been declared a proclaimed offender by the Punjab Police, Chand Deep Kaur has requested Ms Swaraj for help, saying th...

Riteish sings, day dreams and whiles away time at a local bar, a fish market and the outskirts of the city while Nargis continues to make appearances in his imagination. Riteish and Nargis also have a Titanic moment but on a rusted and deserted boat

More than two years after the completion of a new $17 million (Rs 111 crore at 1 dollar = 65.31 rupees) terminal building, the airport in Jaisalmer, the remote desert city in Rajasthan, stands empty.

A 45-year-old woman was allegedly molested by a man while she was taking her evening walk in central Delhi's Lodhi Garden yesterday. According to the woman's statement to the police, the man, who seemed drunk, attacked her at around 6:30 pm on Sunday. He allegedly pushed and shoved her and attempted to drag her to a dark and deserted spot. The woma...

A man has been granted divorce by a Delhi court on the ground that he underwent "tremendous" cruelty because of his wife, who deserted him just a month after marriage.