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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Topic: safety

‘Our job is not just to pacify’— meet men & women handling Uber’s 24×7 safety helpline

Hundreds of Uber safety agents in Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad field calls from riders and drivers across India, tackling complaints, disputes, and emergencies round the clock.

Illegal construction, change in land use led to high mortality at Mundka

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation, under which the Munda building that caught fire falls, had no information about its construction, or what the building was used for. 

Mumbai & Delhi rank among world’s 5 ‘most stressful’ cities to live in

Survey by German wellness company Vaay compared 100 cities of the world. While Mumbai ranked at the bottom, Delhi was 97 among 100.

Replace drivers with automated systems — how to make mobility safe during Covid crisis

We should consider deploying automated systems to deliver critical supplies to areas under lockdown, thereby limiting exposure to drivers and residents.

These are the reasons why Indian planes are skidding off runways, says DGCA audit

The DGCA audit report comes just a month after five Indian aircraft veered off runways within a span of three days.

Here’s what WhatsApp can do to prevent targeted attacks on public figures

WhatsApp should give users more control over deciding who can message them.

Women of the night: How women DJs came together to make Delhi’s clubs safer

We women wanted a change in Delhi's nightclubs so bad, we decided to bring it ourselves.

On Camera

Let there be no doubt that scientist Rohini Godbole left us unwillingly

If Rohini Godbole had a better collaborative environment, no doubt her name would have been in the mix for the JJ Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

As IDF unveils robotic combat task force, Israeli maker says open to working with India

Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.