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India returns to action in Unlock 1.0 — with fever guns, new habits and longing for the old

Taran Deol - 13 June, 2020

With malls, restaurants and religious places reopening, India is uneasily but surely coming back to life, but in the shadow of the coronavirus.

How smokers are getting by without cigarettes in Covid-19 lockdown (it’s helping many quit)

Shubhangi Misra - 26 April, 2020

Many smokers are struggling to get their daily dose of nicotine amid the lockdown. While some are grappling with withdrawal, others are using the chance to kick the butt.

New MHA order allows shops to open, but malls, liquor outlets will have to wait

PTI - 25 April, 2020

The shops allowed to open will have to function with a 50% strength of workers, who will have to wear masks and follow social distancing.

‘Bhaiyya de do please’ — Covid-19 crisis is making urban India go back to kirana stores

Bismee Taskin - 16 April, 2020

Covid-19 lockdown is like a renaissance for neighbourhood kirana stores as the urban Indian is finding them more convenient than malls.

Top US tech investor bets on India’s kirana shops to fight Amazon, Flipkart

Saritha Rai - 1 October, 2019

California-based GGV Capital, a $6.2 billion investor in some of the biggest unicorns, is backing start-ups that serve India’s tiny, family-run kiranas.

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Badhaai Do shows a lavender marriage. It hurts LGBT+ fight in post-377 India

Nikhil Rampal - 26 January, 2022

‘Badhaai Do’ starring Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar shows a gay man marrying a lesbian woman to get their families off their backs.

Dear Oxfam, stop looking for inequality in India, go back to distributing blankets

26 January, 2022

Indian govt can’t introduce quality reforms because it’s ignoring these three issues

26 January, 2022

Economy

India to look at Brazil, Russia for sunflower oil as invasion threat looms over Ukraine

Pratik Parija - 26 January, 2022

Ukraine is India's biggest supplier of sunflower oil. Any escalation in Russia-Ukraine tension is likely to hit edible oil prices in the country as 70% of its requirement is imported.

Topic: kirana shops

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

Badhaai Do shows a lavender marriage. It hurts LGBT+ fight in post-377 India

Dear Oxfam, stop looking for inequality in India, go back to distributing blankets

Indian govt can’t introduce quality reforms because it’s ignoring these three issues

Economy

India to look at Brazil, Russia for sunflower oil as invasion threat looms over Ukraine

Defence

‘Mystery’ brochure on 1971 War crops Indira Gandhi, Jagjivan Ram from images, courts controversy

National Interest

Modi vs non-BJP CMs: When most popular isn’t all-powerful & why Centre-state ties will worsen

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