India Today1 min readFinance & Money Management
Expensive Plummet
● Paytm wallet ● Payment gateway ● Bill payments ● QR codes ● Point-of-sale devices ● Paytm Payments Bank ● Paytm Gold ● Paytm Money ● FASTag ● Paytm Postpaid ● Credit Card ● Insurance ● Movie ticketing ● Flight ticketing ● Train ticketing ● Bus tick
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Transformative Healthcare Ms. Sunanda Singhania’s Vision for PSRI Hospital
As the Executive Director of PSRI Hospital, Ms. Sunanda Singhania has been the driving force behind the institution’s transformative journey. A distinguished member of the JK Tyre & Industries Ltd and associated with various JK Group companies for ov
India Today1 min readCrime & Violence
Catalogue of Misdeeds
↘ Shahjahan’s followers brutally thrash ED officials on January 5, when they go to raid his house. The arrested TMC strongman is charged with attempt to murder, grievous hurt to public servants, rioting and robbery, among others ↘ Since February 7, s
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From The Editor-in-chief
They were the two icons of India’s feted start-up industry. All and sundry looked on in admiration as their valuations soared to dizzying heights. Then, recently, the free fall started. Byju Raveendran, co-founder of the eponymous edtech giant BYJU’S
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Direct Flight To Ayyappa
Kerala’s fifth airport is coming up in the hills of Erumely in Kottayam district, some 54 km from the famous Sabarimala temple dedicated to Lord Ayyappa. The Rs 3,900-crore project could become a boon for the millions of pilgrims who visit the temple
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We Are Like This Only
Q. Your photo exhibition Indianisms is subtitled ‘Observations of irony, ingenuity, irreverence, & idiosyncrasy in Indian life’. What drew you to capturing these ironies and idiosyncrasies? A. I always draw upon my previous work to find new ways of m
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Crash Course
● AAKASH 300 centres plus hybrid model for test preparation for entrance exams such as JEE/NEET ● BYJU’S TUITION CENTRES 300 centres plus hybrid classes ● BYJU’S EARLY LEARN for K-3 segment ● BYJU’S THE LEARNING APP for Classes 4-10 ● BYJU’S CLASSES
India Today3 min readGender Studies
DS Group’s ‘Project Saamya’ Is Fostering A Gender Equitable Society Through Young Boys In The Communities Of Noida
This special programme has branched out in three communities of Noida (NCR) including Mamura, Basai and Garhi Chaukhandi The programme has already facilitated more than 350 young boys and has expanded further to other locations The larger objective o
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Nitish In A Saffron Maze
On March 2, a day after celebrating his 73rd birthday, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was sharing the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Aurangabad district and sounding a bit contrite. “Hum gayab ho gaye thhe, par ab hum phir aapke saath
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Toddy Cat Trouble
Though Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheeshan cannot see eye to eye, the three do have a common adversary—palm civets that invade their homes frequently. While attending an eve
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Expanding Horizons, Bringing New Energy
To help India meet its energy demand, GMDC is entering into coal mining in India’s eastern parts, at Burapahar in Sundargarh district and Baitarani (West) in Angul district of Odisha. Mining coal here will enhance its capability in meeting the energy
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Casteing A Wide Net
Anupriya Patel East UP (Purvanchal), including Varanasi, Mirzapur, Chandauli O.P. Rajbhar East UP, including Ballia, Ghosi, Ghazipur Jayant Chaudhary West UP, including Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Mathura Sanjay Nishad East UP, including Gorakhpur, Sant
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Copy That
When he was a minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena government, Eknath Shinde reportedly did splendid work through the party’s medical aid cell. In fact, this work is said to have stood him in good stead when he later made a bid for the Maha
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Kaur Competency
Rashmeet Kaur calls her new album KAURA (Aura of Kaur) a “hippop” effort. The singer feels the portmanteau is the perfect way to describe the 12-track collection, which features collaborations with over a dozen hip-hop acts and has her alternating be
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A Tale Well Told
Q. What kind of storytelling can we see from Richa and you after the big Sundance win for your debut production, Girls Will Be Girls? We won the audience award and the special jury award for the lead actor Preeti Panigrahi at Sundance. I am absolutel
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Gazing Inwards
Hollywood loves digging into its own past to seek inspiration and hence The Artist, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, Babylon to name a few. Bollywood, not so much. Actor Emraan Hashmi, who stars as a film studio honcho in Disney+ Hotstar’s Showtime, c
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The Heads Keep Rolling
Is a clash between its directors and the board of governors taking a toll on the venerable Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)? If recent events at IIM Calcutta are to be taken at face value, that question is merely rhetorical. The institute, one
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Fall Of The Icons
IN terms of personality, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of digital payments start-up Paytm, and Byju Raveendran, co-founder of edtech start-up BYJU’S, could not be more different. Sharma, 45, is outgoing and aggressive, and wears his emotions on his s
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CHAIRMAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Aroon Purie VICE CHAIRPERSON AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Kalli Purie GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dinesh Bhatia GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Manoj Sharma GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Ni
India Today1 min readPolitical Ideologies
Pre-emptive Retirement?
Of the 15 candidates announced for Gujarat in the BJP’s first list for the Lok Sabha polls, a third are new faces replacing the incumbents. But the biggest headline did not come from those who lost out or those who got tickets. It was the former depu
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Timeline Of Trouble
Nov. 2018: Anju Seth, an alumna of IIM-C who taught at Virginia Tech and University of Illinois in the US, becomes the institute’s first woman director Dec. 2020: Faculty members write to Ministry of Education against her ‘style of functioning’, expr
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No Candidates for BRS
There seems no end to Bharat Rashtra Samithi supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao’s woes. First, his plans of going pan-India for the parliamentary polls came a cropper, followed by the debacle in the assembly polls, and now he is struggling to find candidat
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“It’s A Journey Of Empowering Every Citizen Of Odisha”
It gives me immense pleasure that today we are discussing about our remarkable transformation, not despair, and celebrating success in multiple fields, not dwelling on the pains of the past. Many devastating natural disasters tested our resilience, b
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Comic Belief
Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies has two new brides (Nitanshi Goel and Pratibha Ranta) getting lost, only to come of age and achieve their potential. The comedy drama takes a satirical, gentle route to smash patriarchy and in doing so paints endearing por
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The Odisha Moment
“Two decades ago, Odisha evoked the picture of abject poverty and malnutrition…but now this region is scaling new peaks of development every day, emerging as a rice bowl of the country,” a proud Naveen Patnaik, chief minister of Odisha, said at the I
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VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA, 45 Founder, Paytm
↘ Grew up in Aligarh, UP, with six siblings; their father was a teacher. At his Hindi-medium school, many of Sharma’s classmates came barefoot. “I never wanted to go back to that world,” he says ↘ Devised a Hindi-English dictionary to learn English,
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Airport At A Glance
2,263.2 acres from Cheruvally estate and 307 acres outside it Cost of the land Total project cost Expected completion year Runway length with 45-metre and 7.5-metre shoulders on either side Estimated no. of passengers annually Estimated annual revenu
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A Storm In Sandeshkhali
Sandeshkhali, in South Bengal, has always been in the eye of a storm. The riverine area, resting cheek-by-jowl with the Sunderbans and the sea, has long been pummelled by cyclones. But the continual tempest of tyranny that villagers, especially women
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Security Detail
On March 2, four days after the Rajya Sabha election for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP-led Union government provided Y-plus category security to Akash Anand, nephew of Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and officially the No. 2 in the party stru
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The Traditional Modernist
K. G. Subramanyan (1924-2016), who had in his decades-long career as an innovative teacher, writer, designer and artist been associated with Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, which was his alma mater, and MS University, Baroda, once said of his
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