Private CNG cars being refused exemption during the odd-even scheme will discourage motorists from opting for the cleaner fuel, according to experts As the odd-even rationing scheme is set to be rolled out during November 4-15, the Delhi government has decided to not exempt over five lakh CNG-run vehicles in the Capital city — while […]

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OYO hotels, sold as cheap and better options, are also beset with sub-standard services, cancelled bookings and weak customer service Cancelled bookings, deficient service, refund delays – these are, some of the problems which have constituted to showcase another reality of OYO. It’s the world’s third largest hotel chain and a $10 billion enterprise in […]

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How labourers are mentally caged, alienated and dehumanised in this civilised world Rehan Khan, a labourer from Bihar made news while he jumped inside the lion’s cage in the Delhi zoo. The psychological problem which made him do this was overlooked by the majority and he was dismissed as “mentally ill”. The video which went […]

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Amid oppressive patriarchy in Haryana’s Mewat, a young Dalit woman is fighting to keep her dream alive and striving to get justice for her 12-year-old niece As one travels southwards in Haryana, the green of the Jat belt gives way to the arid landscape of Mewat region. The lower Aravallis begin to ascend in the […]

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The suicide note left by Professor Alan Stanley mentions ‘depression’ and ‘misinformation campaign spread by media outlets’ as the reasons On October 20, Delhi Police recovered the decapitated body of Alan Stanley from the railway tracks near Sarai Rohilla Railway Station. Startlingly, his mother Lissy was found dead the same night, suffocated by a cloth […]

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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his team’s footprints can be seen all over Delhi, for their contributions have brought educational and health reform in the national capital With a Nobel Prize in Economics in the kitty, MIT professor and economists Abhijit Banerjee and wife Esther Duflo have been the talk of the town. Their ‘randomised […]

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This festive season says goodbye to buying new clothes. Instead, recycle what you have; or make your own outfit with an old saree The festivity has officially begun and so has this pageant in our heads that we dress up for. This is the time of the year when most of north India goes all […]

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The Kumaon litfest at Nainital proved to be a perfect setting to turn a childhood love for fiction into a more mature engagement with non-fiction If there were ever a perfect location to revive or arouse a passion for reading, it would be the hills. There might be some who count on the sound of […]

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