The ‘Smart Cities’ plan of futuristic cities which operate by themselves using Artificial Intelligence is not even mentioned in the BJP manifesto. has it gone kaput? In 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party had promised to build 100 Smart Cities across India, all in an attempt to modernise urban infrastructure so that it can handle the […]

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What does it mean to be a citizen of social media, and how does that affect our relationship with the country that we actually live in? This April Fool’s Day, Facebook announced that it had removed from its platform several accounts, pages and groups indulging in “coordinated inauthentic behaviour or spam” from India and Pakistan. […]

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As we move from 2004 to 2019, ‘Indians’ trumps ‘India’, ‘government’ takes a back seat, and the Congress definitely played the ‘national’ card. Let’s take a look at the most-used words by political parties in their manifestos It’s another election year, and with it comes another round of heavily-loaded manifestos promising a pot of gold […]

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On CV Raman Marg, New Friends Colony, workers have been digging near the main road to install pipes with PWD Permission. The issue here is that they were pulling up the soil very close to the trees. According to an NGT order, digging within 1 metre radius of trees is prohibited. However, the PWD permission […]

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Netflix series Delhi Crime, it turns out, was only loosely based on the official case files of the Nirbhaya rape case. The real-life patrol officer who called the Police Control room is not even in the picture, while the SHO and Nirbhaya’s friend say they have been defamed On a scorching afternoon, with the sun […]

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Kamal Haasan is canvassing for his candidates while saving himself for Assembly elections, but observers are treating him with caution Emerging out of the sun-roof of his SUV, Kamal Haasan seems fresh and ready for the next 15 days of election campaigning under the merciless Tamil Nadu sun. However, he didn’t seem to have anything […]

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I am from Nagaland. I moved to Delhi three years back to continue my studies. I have faced various kinds of discrimination since the day I moved here. First of all, when I was looking for a flat or PG to stay in, I was questioned more than other people usually are. That may be […]

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Whichever party comes to power in 2019 must pay attention to the Non-Performing assets With the election season heating up, one issue that is garnering limelight in the electoral fight is unemployment. There is significant rural distress and an obvious lack of jobs and employment creation, especially in rural areas. The government is trying its […]

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