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Delhi City's night shelters in a pathetic condition as mercury levels dip.

Delhi,As the festive mood envelopes the city in the last week of December, with most Dilliwallahs wishing for more chill to kick in, there are several ‘areas of darkness’ in the Capital where people are praying that the mercury doesn’t slide any further. For, they have no roof over their head, and those few who are provided with one by the government, they have to live in a dark, dingy […]

More than a million Iraqis have fled their homes as ISIS continues armed siege

More than a million Iraqis have been forced from their homes by conflict this year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday — a number only likely to rise as Islamist militants and Iraqi security forces battle for control. A humanitarian crisis is brewing, as families who’ve fled fighting with little more than the clothes on their back seek water, food and shelter from the summer heat. Meanwhile, the first of […]