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Airlines still out of tune with musicians, hit jarring note with instruments in flight
After finding out her sitar was cracked on a flight from London to Delhi, Anoushka Shankar posted: ‘How have you done this? I have special cases, you guys charge a handling fee and yet you’ve done this?
Global Team Including TIFR Confirms Einstein's Gravity Across the Universe
TIFR is part of global team to come up with exciting new study that confirms Einstein’s theory of gravity works the same way across the entire universe. The breakthrough is important because of its precision that could solve new cosmic mysteries
Maharashtra Women Voter Aid Schemes: Promises, Skepticism, and Choices
Political parties are in a bidding war, each upping the stakes to woo women voters. But can a few extra thousands really sway a vote? Some find the handouts meaningful. Others question the timing & if these are enough when other issues need attention
Black is back but guess who is scalping your Coldplay tickets?
Remember dus-ka-tees outside cinemas? Black is back—online. Ticket scalping that crushed Coldplay fans isn’t just for concerts anymore. Tech experts weigh in on how bots skip queues for gigs, matches & train tickets and what event sites could do to prevent it
A river of forgotten promises lies buried in Mumbai’s poll noise
As a sudden dust storm swept through the city, followed by rain, bringing both relief from sun-parched days and havoc to the homes lining the banks of the Mithi River, it was a grim prelude to the impending monsoon season for families settled along the brackish river’s edge. Two decades on, not much has changed, say its residents. As monsoon clouds gather, it’s a familiar scene every year.
Koliwadas say low catch, soaring diesel prices are factors in poll
Vast Koli settlements in Andheri Versova, Khar Danda, Worli, Madh, Colaba, Vasai and Satpati face common concerns. Educated young men and women are leaving the occupation. Fishing is a diminishing trade thanks to the high cost of diesel used to fuel boats. The catch is vastly depleted owing to polluted waters and overfishing, the use of purse seine nets and LED lights. Infrastructure projects like the Coastal Road have driven another nail to the coffin of their dying trade, they say. The Kolis uniformly feel that govts do not consult them or take them into confidence over issues that put their livelihood at stake.
When messenger lies, message suffers, say pundits on Pandey's death stunt
A French newspaper thought Alfred Nobel had died, wrote a nasty obituary about him, calling him a merchant of death, and Nobel, so some historians say, read it and got an attack of conscience. Internet in India thought Poonam Pandey had died, then it discovered she hadn’t, it was a stunt, apparently for a ‘good cause’, then Internet went nuts. But did Pandey have an attack of conscience after reviewing social media users’ responses to her ‘death’?
Jamtara loses crown as new remote districts rewrite India’s cybercrime map
Move over Jamtara , there’s a new cyber playground in town. The once-notorious hub for online mischief in Jharkhand no longer reigns as India’s cybercrime epicentre. Emerging from the shadows are fresh contenders—districts like Bharatpur , Mathura, Nuh , Deogarh , Gurgaon, Alwar , Bokaro, Karma Tand, and Giridih—that have claimed the spotlight and are collectively responsible for 80% of reported cybercrimes across country.
Shraddha Walkar murder case: An accident or planned crime? What goes on inside the mind of a murderer
Was it an accidental killing in a fit of rage followed by a desperate effort to conceal the crime, or was it a carefully crafted stage-managed murder?
Airline refuses to fly disabled chief of pickleball association, says 'no policy'
Wheelchair-bound Arvind Prabhoo, chairperson of the All India Pickleball Association, was unable to accompany the 16 players representing India at the 2022 World Pickleball Championship between September 20 and 24 in Bali as he was not allowed to board a Vietjet flight from Mumbai on Saturday night.
No ‘Aadhaar’: Film runs into UIDAI roadblock
Filmmaker Suman Ghosh—who had to contend with the Central Board of Film Certification in 2017 before it freed the “cow” and four other words that were asked to be beeped out from his documentary on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen—has run into trouble again. This time it’s with his feature film ‘ Aadhaar ’, a Hindi comic drama. Only it’s not a tussle between Ghosh and the certifying body, but a “super censor” in the form of Unique Identification Authority of India that issues Aadhaar card.
On the run since 2016, child activist Licypriya Kangujam’s father arrested from Delhi
In a joint operation by the Delhi Police Special Cell and the Manipur Police Kanarjit Kangujam , also known as Dr KK Singh — a self-proclaimed youth leader who also happens to be the father of nine-year-old climate activist Licypriya Kangujam — was arrested from his current residence in Delhi’s Safdarjung in the early hours of Monday morning.
Goa police book Delhi woman for sexual assault on French woman
A woman from Delhi who identifies herself as a queer rights activist has been booked for “sexual assault” and “wrongful confinement” of a French woman — who also identifies herself as queer — in Goa last week. The French woman has alleged that on February 23 she was “drugged”, “groped” and “so-called shamanic rituals” were performed on her by the accused before she went on to sexually assault her by hand.
How will she heal from this, asks her mother, but says she's a fighter
“There is a God,” stuttered Sandhya Chakraborty as she let out a hushed cry, overcome with emotion when she learnt her daughter Rhea had finally been allowed to walk out of Byculla jail on Wednesday evening, after almost a month in judicial custody.
Hunt news, not women: Activists, celebs to media
In a strongly-worded open online letter, around 60 human rights advocacy groups and more than 2,500 individuals from diverse fields have castigated “News Media of India” for allegedly conducting a misogynistic media trial of actor Rhea Chakraborty. “We write to ask you to do the right and responsible thing. Your jobs. Hunt news, not women,” the letter said.
Eye in sky is police ally in fight against Covid-19
“Oh red-shirt-waley, jo cricket khel rahe ho! Ghar jao warna police aapke khilaaf karwaai shuru karegi,” a voice booms in the air above Dharavi. The boy in red looks up wide-eyed at a flying machine buzzing above his head, and scurries off. “Aur ghar jaake haath dhona mat bhul na!” the voice trails off. A synthesised boom bap beat-led voice courses through the sky a little later in the day, rapping. For over a month, Mumbai’s skies have been dotted with swarms of light and small, unmanned aerial vehicles popularly known as drones.
One lakh litres of craft beer in Maharashtra to go down the drain
Chaitanya Khanapure, a computer engineer, was having a decade-long run in Mumbai’s swelling realm of tech innovation but an idea for a switchover kept gnawing at him. When he quit everything to study and brew beer for a living two years ago, it was about concocting his own unique flavours of ale and the sweet spot that locally brewed craft beer had hit in 2018 — a far cry from 2009, when he was a student and tasted the first kick of hops, malt and wheat at Doolally, India’s first microbrewery in Pune.
Conservationists divided on Maharashtra plan to lease out forts
Apart from the ravages of time, weather and apathy, a critical challenge that the architectural legacy in the country is often faced with is resistance to change, even if that involves actual efforts to restore the remains of its past.That is what happened when Maharashtra decided to lease out 25 forts identified as Class-II category of lesser historical significance to private players for conversion into heritage hotels.
Neighbouring towers dump 18 truckloads of trash in Raj Bhavan
There is never a shortage of ways in which Indians toss out their trash anytime, anywhere. In a curious case of rampant trash disposal, a tranquil patch of the 47-acre Raj Bhavan complex on the southern tip of the Malabar Point—despite being sheltered by a cliff and enshrined by the sea—has become the target of an aerial barrage of trash, allegedly dropping out of posh highrises that fringe the bhavan’s Lower Gates and landing with a splat on the western side of the compound.
In diversity push, Academy to open 3rd office in Mumbai after London & NYC
In January 2016, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had responded to the #OscarsSoWhite outrage by announcing a diversity committee and a fixed goal: To widen its membership and double the number of women and people of colour by 2020. Now, almost three and a half years later, India finds itself in the middle of the revolution with the Oscar granting body trying to broaden its reach in a country that is home to the world’s largest film industry.
Queer rights enter election script, but not all parties on same page
No matter who wins the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the one who takes the hot seat in Delhi will have a number of promises to keep to the country’s LGBT voters given the “commitment” that each political party has pledged towards the rights and beliefs of sexual and gender minorities in their manifesto.
Why artists have joined hands against 'politics of hate'
With a manifesto promising to build a ‘new and inclusive India’, the present government may be trying to mend fences with its detractors in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, but in cultural and literary circles, things look like a tough sell.
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