It’s a story that resonates with most shoppers. You buy it on a whim; and since it’s an unplanned purchase, you haven’t brought your shopping bag. This implies shelling out anywhere between Rs3 and Rs30 on the retailer’s carry bag, which displays the brand’s XL-sized logo. Here’s the conundrum: Can retailers charge you for those […]
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Why TRS Supremo KCR Keen To ‘Merge’ The Congress Party?
The ruling TRS is on a hectic plan to lure as many as Congress MLAs to its fold so that the grand old party loses its existence in the state legislature. In 2018 Assembly elections, the Congress won 19 seats. Among whom 12 have already shifted their loyalties to the ruling party. In its first […]
Why ‘Political Funding’ Is At The Core Of India’s Corruption?
A democracy cannot have multiple standards of transparency. But in India that exists widely and is practiced religiously. It is difficult to even imagine that a government, which forced crores of fellow Indians to stand in long queues to prove their integrity during demonetisation, cannot prod the country’s most responsible class to come clean on […]
Why The Cruel ‘Kafeels’ Of Saudi Arabia Targeting Gullible ‘Women’ From Hyderabad?
When Iliyaz Begum left for Saudi Arabia in 2016 to work as a khadama (housemaid), she never imagined that she would be returning home on a wheelchair. When her employer’s attempts to sexually harass her failed, she was pushed from the second floor of the building. “It was the worst decision of my life. I […]
How Hyderabad Medical Colleges Awarding MBBS Degrees Without Mandatory ‘House Surgeon Training’?
Allegations have emerged that interns are being transferred to Osmania and Gandhi hospitals in Hyderabad for their last year of MBBS and are getting degrees without undergoing the compulsory hands-on ‘house surgeon’ training. Several complaints have been raised against the administrators of Gandhi Hospital and Osmania Hospital in Hyderabad, regarding ‘illegal’ transfers of interns to […]
Why All The ‘Farmers’ In Krishna District Of Andhra Pradesh ‘Keeping Away’ From Active Elections?
This poll season, farmers, mostly womenfolk, are forced to confine themselves to agricultural fields, keeping away from the election fever and campaign. Farmers across the Krishna district are now busy harvesting black gram, maize and post-harvesting activities of paddy that was stored in the open in the fields. Women contribute a major share of work in […]
Where Is Modi Govt’s Financial Inclusion Of ‘Jan Dhan Yojana’ With Poor India?
The BJP government published an infographic on the 48-months portal that makes three claims about the Jan Dhan Yojana. This article is a fact check of these claims. What is the Jan Dhan Yojana? According to the official website, ‘the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is a National Mission on Financial Inclusion encompassing an […]