Ramdev’s Patanjali doesn’t offer just ghee, honey & toothpaste, but also IT solutions
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Ramdev’s Patanjali doesn’t offer just ghee, honey & toothpaste, but also IT solutions

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Patanjali CEO Acharya Balakrishna (left) and Patanjali founder Baba Ramdev (right)

Patanjali CEO Acharya Balkrishna (left) and founder Baba Ramdev (right) | Facebook

How Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved made a ‘secret’ tech entry with its own IT start-up

Amla juice, honey, toothpaste and ghee are some of the popular offerings of yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s FMCG giant Patanjali. But that’s not all. The multi-million-dollar company has had a tech unit since 2019 that offers cloud services and other IT solutions, reports Himani Chandna.

Among Delhi riot victims, a 22-year-old auto driver, Bihar labourer, and father of six

Auto-rickshaw driver Shahid (22) was shot in his stomach during the riots, while Bihar native Mubarak Hussain (28) was shot in his chest. Nazeem Khan (35) was shot dead when he had gone out to buy ration. Read the ground report of Delhi riots by Sanya Dhingra and Fatima Khan.

Why the root of Delhi’s Hindu-Muslim riots is a malevolent creeper planted by Supreme Court

The roots of the Delhi communal riots, and the poisonous NRC-NPR-CAA nexus, can be traced to the Assam NRC order by the Supreme Court. The order began a diabolical chronology, which the BJP capitalised on, writes Shekhar Gupta.

With ‘please unfriend me if you support BJP’, liberals have already lost the fight

No one is born woke, just like no one is born a bigot. And unfriending on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is just virtue-signalling, it helps no one, writes Samira Sood.

Delhi riots neither designed by Modi govt, nor Islamic conspiracy. It’s far more dangerous

Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not want, far less design, Delhi riots during Trump’s visit. His opponents were in no position to plan the violence. But this was no accident, writes Yogendra Yadav.

Why well-to-do Indians are fleeing the country and economists aren’t returning

Although India is no longer the desperately poor country of the 1980s and 1990s, it seems to have become a less attractive country to live and work. The economic refugees of old have been replaced by well-placed people leaving (or staying away from) India’s unattractive political economy, writes T.N. Ninan.

Who is Kapil Mishra? BJP leader being blamed for Delhi riots had once called Modi ISI agent

Kapil Mishra, 39, was exposed to politics at a young age. He is known to have actively worked in Northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar where his mother and former mayor from the BJP, Annapurna Mishra, was a leader. Mishra’s decision to hold a pro-CAA rally in Northeast Delhi’s Jaffrabad is said to have triggered the communal riots in the national capital, writes Aneesha Bedi.