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Food regulator issues notices to Swiggy Instamart for allegedly delivering expired, spoiled products
The Food Safety Standards Authority of India said on Saturday that it has issued nine notices to Swiggy Instamart following complaints that the platform had supplied expired, spoiled or contaminated food products. Despite complaints having been raised to the company, it took no action on the reported food safety concerns, the regulator added. It said…
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Interview: Young, educated and in search of work – migrants are rebalancing India’s demography
When the Covid-19 lockdowns stopped migrant workers in their tracks, with little money, work or means to go back home, governments of destination states struggled to figure out how many migrants they had, in order to provide free foodgrain, support and medical help. India’s migrant workers are an amorphous group, scattered across several states, moving…
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Alcohol is an established health risk but remains at the heart of social, cultural life
Few substances are as deeply woven into everyday life as alcohol. It is a fixture at holiday celebrations, work-related social gatherings, sporting events, airports, and brunch or dinner tables. A raised glass for a toast, the ubiquitous wedding open bar or drinks shared during a Fourth of July celebration all demonstrate how deeply alcohol has…
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‘Epic, experiential, real’: What to expect from Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
If it wasn’t for the coronavirus pandemic, Christopher Nolan would have premiered his 2020 film Tenet in India. That honour instead went to The Odyssey, Nolan’s feverishly anticipated adaptation of Homer’s epic poem Odyssey. Ahead of its global release on July 17, The Odyssey was premiered on Friday, July 10, in Mumbai. At a press…
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‘Doubters have saved mankind’: K Sachidanandan’s poetic imagination as a site of resistance
As a poet, K Sachidanandan has reinvented himself at every stage through unsparing self-criticism and persistent exploration of the changing environment of poetry in relation to the existing social structures. He was quick to distance himself from the triumphant assertions of high modernism, as he sensed its inability to be socially inclusive. As the 1970s…
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J&K: Omar Abdullah alleges BJP trying to split National Conference
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party was trying to bring his government down by persuading MLAs of the National Conference to switch sides, reported PTI. “Attempts are being made to break the National Conference,” Omar Abdullah said at a convention of party workers in Hazratbal on…
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Eco India, Episode 328: Meet the Indians rebuilding ecosystems from the ground up
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Assam to dismiss government employees practising polygamy, says CM
Assam government employees practising polygamy or the practice of having more than one wife, will be dismissed from their posts, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday. He also announced that those in a polygamous marriage would not be eligible for benefits under any government welfare scheme. The Bharatiya Janata Party leader made the…
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SC refuses contempt proceedings against litigant who verbally abused CJI, threw papers in courtroom
The Supreme Court on Friday decided not to initiate contempt proceedings against a litigant who threw papers inside the courtroom and verbally abused Chief Justice Surya Kant. When the hearing began, litigant Prabal Pratap said: “Mr judicial servant, I order you to order the registration of an FIR [first information report] against the assistant commissioner…
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‘Fieldwork as a Sex Object’: Meena Kandasamy’s angry new novel is ever so slightly overcooked
What happens to Amy Chaturvedi in Fieldwork as a Sex Object is every woman’s worst nightmare realised – a sextape gone viral. Worse still, a deepfake sextape. Unlike real sextapes that could once be monetised and become a shortcut to celebrityhood, a sextape today can be made and circulated so easily that they are only…