Global media also looks at the latest chapter in India's 'language wars', what's making India world's biggest IPO market outside US, Jane Street saga & the Uber-Rapido rivalry in India.
'Prisoners on Wheels?' report surveyed over 10,000 cab drivers & delivery persons on apps across 8 cities. Mental and physical health issues, dissatisfaction with fares also among findings.
The gig sector is booming, but policy inaction, declining incentives from app-based companies, and skyrocketing fuel prices have trapped gig workers in a spiral of diminishing returns.
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.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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