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First chips & condoms, now domestic workers in 10 mins. Apps pull strings, consumers rule

Apps like Insta Help, Broomees, Snabbit, and Pronto promise instant domestic workers to clean, wash, mop, cook. They’re sanitising domestic work — uniformed, transactional, no bonds.

Blow to Yogi, Fadnavis, Gadkari—caste census will change criteria for PM Modi’s successor

Another reason cited by BJP's spin doctors is the Bihar Assembly election. It’s fallacious, too. Such a big decision is not taken in view of just one Assembly election.

Held in robbery bid, she was found to be trafficked, raped, pregnant at 16. At 19, she’ll be a paralegal

She was trafficked from Siliguri aged 11-12 yrs & forced into sex work. Trafficking or rape survivors often bury their worst memories & can feel favourably inclined to a kinder abuser.

From ‘destroyer of GC Hindus’ to ‘Maulana Modi’ jibes, BJP’s new opposition is arising from within

New Delhi: A day after the Pahalgam attack, the X account of Chhattisgarh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party posted: “Dharma poocha, jaati nahi…Yaad rakhenge...

‘World’s largest indigenous school’ in Odisha is a jail. ‘We’re all monkeys,’ says tribal student

The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences is situated right next to the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology where an alleged suicide of a student from Nepal and the mishandling of the resulting protest led to a diplomatic row.

Ending Indus treaty may hurt Pakistan’s poor, but it’ll also unite it with anti-India hatred

For obvious reasons, international support would be harder to recruit if India were seen as deliberately inflicting drought on millions in Pakistan.

Haryana has a bold, new film industry. It’s radical and not all jugaad

SUPVA is Haryana’s quietly radical experiment in cinema. Tucked away in Rohtak, it’s the only university in Asia offering full-time bachelor's degrees in core filmmaking disciplines.

India must keep Pakistan on tenterhooks. The day of reckoning will come like a thunderbolt

The scale of India's response to Pakistan will be a political decision. How the Armed Forces will achieve the aim set out by the Prime Minister is a matter of speculation.

‘Mujhe EMI bharna hai’—how voice tech is bringing millions of Indians into banking system

Using icons and speech, AI-enabled voice apps like Hello Ujjivan and Bhashini are building a new bridge to banking for India’s 18 crore low-literate citizens.

Delhi’s sterilisation centres key to managing human-stray dog conflict. But they’re all blood & filth

Friendicoes says need of the hour was for vets, authorities & NGOs to collectively discuss how to remedy challenges faced by some ABC units, and what can be done to find solutions.

On Camera

Takaichi channels Abe & wins over Trump

Trump calls Takaichi 'one of the greatest prime ministers' & offers her 'anything you want'.

Mumbai’s been driving India’s data centre market, but water shortage, power demand pose risks

According to a report by Macquarie, India’s data centre market is estimated to double by 2027. India currently has 1.4 gigawatts of operational data centre capacity.

Navy Chief calls for collective solutions to maritime challenges in ‘complex & dynamic’ Indo-Pacific

At 11th edition of Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue in New Delhi, Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said there are three major currents shaping this maritime 'dynaxity'.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.