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Over 10 voters have died amid history’s biggest election—and it’s not even halfway doneAt least 10 Indians have died till now while trying to vote in the country’s ongoing national election.
Updated July 21, 20221 min read
At least 10 Indians have died till now while trying to vote in the country’s ongoing national election.
India’s largest carmaker will have sold its last diesel car by the end of this financial year.
As the April 26 release of Avengers: Endgame, the latest movie in the popular Marvel franchise, coincides with the ongoing final season of Game of Thrones (GoT), it’s a great time to be a pop culture merchandiser in India.
As Indians head to the polls in the third phase of the parliamentary elections today (April 23), they will find the highest number of criminals on the ballot so far.
Can you name the candidates contesting the parliamentary election from your constituency? It’s only reasonable if you can’t.
It has become trickier for Indians to keep watching porn.
Trouble for lipsync and video-sharing platform TikTok had been brewing in India for some time now.
Young urban Indians care about politics, but not when they’re looking for partners.
Indians are pretty excited about Game of Thrones (GoT) and more so about one particular character from the world’s most popular TV show.
In anticipation of the final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Anshika Nagar has taken up a different hobby. While many of her friends are rewatching the last seven seasons to bring themselves up to speed before the new one, premiering next week after a year’s delay, the 22-year-old New Delhi resident is now reading the George RR Martin books which the historical fantasy series is based on.
Young Indians are coffee-loving feminists who prefer to “Netflix and chill” above all else. At least that’s what they flaunt to prospective dates on Tinder.
Emerging from the grey areas of Indian anti-gambling laws, fantasy sports gaming platform Dream11 has become the country’s newest unicorn.
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s chowkidar campaign is a runaway hit on social media.
Even in turmoil, India’s aviation industry has been adding new capacity faster than the growth in air passenger traffic.
Household incomes in India’s financial capital are rising the fastest. Yet, most families there can’t afford a home.
Children born in India today will lose two-and-a-half years of their lives to the air they breathe.
The change of guard at Jet Airways last month was expected to ease things up for Indian flyers during the peak summer travel season. The new owners, a clutch of banks, had told the government they plan to add 40 more planes and restore 80% of the carrier’s capacity, thus helping bring down airfares.
NASA has criticised India’s Mission Shakti, the launch of an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile a few days ago, for the space debris it has left behind.
The Indian summer is getting hotter.
The Indian government has been raising money, time and again, by listing state-owned enterprises on the bourses. But initial investors in most of these firms are yet to recover their money.
A clutch of Indian lenders are now firmly in control of the country’s oldest private airline, Jet Airways. But they need to move fast to protect their investment, which is swiftly losing altitude along with the carrier’s flagging fortunes.
India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are growing at a faster rate than in any other major energy-consuming nation.
It’s the end of the road for Naresh Goyal. Lenders have finally taken control of the airline he founded over 25 years ago, forcing him out of the board.
In 2005, Naresh Goyal had written off low-cost airlines. The founder and chairman of India’s oldest private carrier reasoned that since most Indian cities don’t have a second airport, all airlines end up paying the same operational charges. Thus, the economy players don’t have any significant advantage over their full-service rivals.