Author: Jyotismita Maitra

Bharat Airtel will raise tariffs for all its prepaid users by up to 25% from November 26 in a primary bid to boost average revenue per user (ARPU) and improve its financial health, pushing the telco’s shares to record highs. The most noticeable is the hike in tariff of its entry-level 28-day voice-only plan from Rs 79 to Rs 99. As per the India Ratings and Research, airtel could aim to shift non-data customers to data customers, which would lead to higher average revenue per user. Being an oligopoly telecom market, the other two private players Vodafone Idea and Reliance…

Males who have been sexually assaulted may experience the exact effects of sexual assault as other survivors. Sexual assault can happen to anyone irrespective of their age, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Some men who have survived sexual assault as adults feel shame or self-doubt, believing they should have been “strong enough” to fight off the perpetrator. Many men who had experienced an erection or ejaculation during the assault may be confused and wonder what this means. These normal physiological responses do not in any way imply that you wanted, invited, or enjoyed the assault.  Males who were sexually abused…

In April 2005, India and Japan announced a collaboration for feasibility and possible funding of the dedicated rail freight corridors. RITES entrusted with the feasibility study of both eastern and western passages, followed by the Planning Commission’s Task Force to plan a concept paper on Delhi-Mumbai (Western) and Delhi-Howrah (Eastern) dedicated freight corridor projects and to suggest a new organizational structure for financing, planning, operation and construction of these corridors. In 2006, RITES submitted the Feasibility Study Report of those corridors, and the Cabinet approved Task Force’s report. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) and supported the Feasibility Study report.…

The Telugu actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu is set to make her international debut with the film Arrangements of Love, an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by novelist Timeri N Murari, directed by BAFTA-winning Welsh director Philip John. He is best known for the 2010 British period drama series Downton Abbey. In the film, she will play the role of a bisexual character who runs her detective agency. Speaking about the film, the thrilled actress shared a post on her social media handle, making an official announcement about the film. Samantha shared a photo with director Philip…

Modern car manufacturers market electric vehicles with a green label and promise it to be the future of transport. The large-scale manufacture of electric vehicles is widely regarded as a suitable strategy to address significant sustainability shortfalls of the transport sector, mainly its contribution to air pollution and climate change and its dependency on non-renewable fossil fuels. Electric vehicles are predicted to be the next disruptive force for transportation and technology. The advent of electric cars has called for an improvement in overall energy usage. Electric vehicles have several advantages over conventional passenger cars equipped with combustion engine vehicles:  Electric…

On 19th November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that all the three farm laws would be withdrawn after a massive protest from farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, on the borders of Delhi for more than a year.  The opposition political leaders welcomed this decision with massive celebrations, but they didn’t criticize it.  The opposition leaders said that the BJP-led Union government only bowed to the farmers’ demands, who have been protesting against the laws for more than a year, due to the impending elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. They also mentioned that the decision came after “more than 700 farmers died” during the protests. The Opposition leader believes that the protests have raised the political costs for…

The Parliament of India in September 2020 passed three farm laws which show a massive protest by the farmers for more than a year. There has been a court stay on the farm laws since January 2021. Several incidents such as the 2021 farmer’s Republic Day protest and Lakhimpur Kheri Violence have resulted in farmer deaths and heavy politicization. Farmers, farmer unions, and representatives have demanded that the laws be repealed and stated that they will not compromise. After several rounds of discussion, protest and fight between the farmer leaders and the government of India, finally on the 19th of November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that, said his government would repeal all three farm…

Red Notice is an American action-comedy film released on Netflix, directed and written by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The film starring Dwayne Johnson as an FBI agent who reluctantly teams up with a renowned art thief who stars Ryan Reynolds to catch a more notorious thief who stars Gal Godot.  It was a film with tremendous star power and a massive budget, but did it give what it is expected to be? Sadly, the answer is no.   The two-hour film packed with elegant looks and a great star cast is expected to be something on another level, but in the end, it generates as a few soaps’ bubbles.  Red Notice swivels around a rickety axis that can barely hold its weight despite all its spectacular sets and locations. Individually all the stars had added their flavour in the movie, but the buzz they had created just remained the buzz at the end.   The film is full of all the factors to be a blockbuster movie, the most expensive film to ever stream on…

In 2015, Volkswagen admitted that they had installed emissions-cheating devices in its vehicles, which cost the company a fine of over $33 billion in vehicle refits and regulatory penalties, mainly in the United States. It all started in 2014 when the California Air Resources Board (CARB) studied emissions discrepancies between European and U.S. models of vehicles, summing up the data on 15 cars from three sources. Among those, five scientists used a Japanese onboard emission testing system and detected additional emissions during live road tests on two out of three diesel cars. Regulators in other countries began to investigate Volkswagen,…

Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) plans to get into CNG trims across its product range as it remains bullish over the long-term prospects of the segment amid an increase in fuel prices and drop in diesel car sales, according to a senior company official. The company that sold around 1.62 lakh CNG cars last fiscal year also counts on the rapid expansion of CNG dispensing outlets across the country to bring in more CNG products.  “In 2021-22, we expect to sell around 3 lakh CNG units. It is when many of our models do not have a CNG option right now. Out of the 15 brands we sell, the…