After a police crackdown sent Bengali-speaking workers fleeing, Gurugram residents now want only vetted, local Hindu domestic staff. Rates are up and the power dynamic has flipped.
Gurugram isn’t the first city where Lazar Jankovic has launched a cleanliness drive. He has cleaned streets wherever he lived — from Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu, to Rishikesh.
Two Ghazipur-like dumps in Lucknow are now a park and a waste plant. Former municipal commissioner Inderjit Singh drove city’s clean makeover. ‘Lucknow’s entire image has changed.’
Hyderabad’s rebranded disaster agency HYDRAA is razing ‘illegal’ buildings and reclaiming old lakes, parks, and public land. For some, it’s a model to fix urban flooding; for others, abuse of power.
“You can name any state, the situation is the same. The biggest healthcare scheme of India is getting worse day-by-day,” said a senior doctor in Jaipur.
Nikki’s parents claimed that her in-laws had demanded Rs 36 lakh and a Scorpio, which police said was the family’s attempt to conceal her Instagram account — something they feared society would not accept.
Kombucha is becoming a go-to for affluent, Westernised young Indians seeking a ‘sexier’ alternative to kanji and buttermilk. It’s a sober, probiotic prosecco.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
Paying just 3k for cooking? If true, that’s way too low and sounds like exploitation. In Chennai, even a year before, the ‘nominal’ rate for a cook (for cooking one meal and a simple b.fast or dinner) was minimum 9k..most good ones demand more. Our cook, who was taking 10k plus, wanted 15k and stopped coming!
Paying just 3k for cooking? If true, that’s way too low and sounds like exploitation. In Chennai, even a year before, the ‘nominal’ rate for a cook (for cooking one meal and a simple b.fast or dinner) was minimum 9k..most good ones demand more. Our cook, who was taking 10k plus, wanted 15k and stopped coming!