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TopicHigh-rises

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Noida, Ghaziabad RWAs send SOS letter. We aren’t ready to fight fires like in Gaur Green

Almina Khatoon -
Federations and RWAs across Delhi-NCR have started circulating notices in WhatsApp groups and among residents regarding safety measures to be taken for fire prevention in homes.

Hung clothes on your balcony? That’ll be Rs 500—RWAs are fining everything now

Almina Khatoon -
RWAs are operating as unregulated money-making machines with penalties for often arbitrary rules, say many residents of Delhi-NCR high-rises.

‘Who will pay crores?’ Noida societies served notices demanding GST on maintenance charges

Almina Khatoon -
The UP tax department is not only issuing notices to societies but also summoning office bearers of apartment owners’ associations.

India is becoming a Republic of RWAs. It’s the most powerful elected body

Karanjeet Kaur -
Civics textbooks need an upgrade, considering that RWAs enforce laws they’ve devised themselves – no matter if it violates a fundamental right or two.

Noida reacts to Pune child’s death. RWAs remove balcony flowerpots

Almina Khatoon -
While many residents across Noida societies welcomed the decision to not place flowerpots on balcony parapets, some expressed concern about where they will now keep their plants.

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Opinion

Apple killed the base iPhone. Its status game is no longer subtle

Saptak Datta -
The base model for the iPhone Duo has been pegged around Rs 3 lakh in India. The top model can cost you around Rs 4.5 lakh. You can buy a car instead.

Mirzapur’s Beena Tripathi is proof — a woman doesn’t need a gun to wield power

Mecca Pact is an alliance of unequals. Pakistan’s silence on the attacks by Houthis shows why

Economy

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Faseeh Mangi -
Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

Defence

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

Debdutta Chakraborty -
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

National Interest

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

Shekhar Gupta -
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.

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