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Bengaluru lawyer outraged by Indigo's Rs 50 'cute charge': 'Do you charge users for being cute?'
Addressing a note to Indigo, advocate Shrayansh Singh commented that 'space has been commodified to its extreme by airlines' since passengers are also made to pay extra for their seat choices.
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Cockroaches found in dal served on Vande Bharat. 'My 80-year-old father ate the food': Mumbai man
'When we went to the pantry car to complain, we saw that the food was being prepared right next to the dustbin and there were live cockroaches crawling around,' Mumbai-based businessman Rikki Jeswani, who was returning from Shirdi with his family on the Vande Bharat train, told Moneycontrol.
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37-year-old quit JPMorgan job to sell clothes online. She earns Rs 84 lakh a month: 'Absolutely loved it'
Zoreen Kabani said women's fashion 'was personally a passion of mine' because she’s always loved shopping. She added that as a child of immigrants, 'I grew up very thrifty,' and that 'I love finding deals.'
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Mohandas Pai slam Karnataka's crater-filled roads: 'Frustatingly shameful'
The Karnataka government had announced in July that it would spend around Rs 1,800 crore to white top around 200 km of roads in Bengaluru that are prone to developing potholes.
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Airline travel can make you sick, says doctor. 'Seats, tray tables harbour all sorts of bacteria, viruses'
'Quick turnaround between flights often means that deep cleaning is not possible, and seats may only receive a cursory cleaning,' Dr Sudipta said. 'Fabric seats, in particular, can trap and retain moisture, making them more prone to harboring bacteria and viruses. Back and headrests can be exposed to a person’s sweat, particularly after boarding in hot climates.'
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'Only in Bengaluru': Auto driver says he accepts cryptocurrency as payment
Although several social media users were amused by the incident, some were quick to point out that in Budget 2022-23, the government had announced a 30 percent tax 30 percent tax imposed on any income from the transfer of crypto assets.
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Education has become increasingly unaffordable due to real estate: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu
There has been a steep rise in school and college fees in India in the last decade. In April, a Delhi man shared he pays Rs 4.3 lakh as yearly fees at his son's playschool while another man from Gurugram revealed that he pays Rs 30,000 a month as his Class 3 son's school fees.
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Bengaluru Google techie shares hair loss woes due to hard water, internet reacts: 'To be bald is...'
Among some of the solutions offered to the software engineer were the use of water softeners, filters, and even packaged mineral water to reduce hairfall.
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Temple flower seller forced to buy iPhone for son after he goes on 3-day hunger strike. Watch
'I sell flowers outside a temple and I gave him the money to buy the phone because he did not eat anything for three days,' the woman said in the video as the son stood smiling by her side holding a fat wad of cash.
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Kolkata doctor rape-murder: 'Left kitchen to join protests for our daughters' safety,' say mothers
Shimuli, mother to an eight-year-old, hoped her daughter learned solidarity while accompanying her in the protests. 'She has been seeing such incidents happen frequently. It's unfortunate that she was brought into a society like this but the sooner she realises the strength of expressing solidarity, the better,' she said.
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Shark Tank India's Anupam Mittal says Starbucks desserts are 'more toxic than tobacco companies'
The Shaadi.com owner's comments said that Strabucks's continued value erosion is inevitable. Mittal's comments were made after the coffee chain replaced its Indian-origin CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol on August 13.
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'Fraud by Amazon': Kolkata man buys Rs 31,500 Tissot watch as gift for uncle, gets a used one
The customer, an investor and IIT Kharagpur alumnus, said that when he complained to Amazon, he was sent a replacement which turned out to be a Tissot watch in an Armani box. 'This is completed harassment by Amazon,' he said,
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Kolkata doctor rape & murder: Women 'reclaim the night' as thousands march for justice amid rain
'This protest is something (the likes of which) Kolkata has never seen before' said actor Sreelekha Mitra. 'We should keep the government under pressure so that everything is done systematically and justice is served'.
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Chaos at Delhi airport: Flyers made to wait 3-4 hours for security check-in. 'Saw this myself,' says Radhika Gupta'
While the Delhi airport is yet to release a statement on the current situation, responding to complaints on social media, the former CEO of Jet Airways, Sanjiv Kapoor, said he believes that airports are doing the best they can.
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Bengaluru founder defends Cognizant's Rs 2.5 LPA job offer: 'Quality of freshers is often so bad...'
Vatsal Sanghvi is not alone to think that Cognizant isn't in the wrong. San Francisco-based venture capitalist and influencer Debarghya Das said that if job seekers were unhappy with the salary the company is offering, they can simply move on.
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says tech giant is losing to OpenAI as it supports WFH, 'work-life balance'
'Google decided that work-life balance and going home early, and working from home, was more important than winning. And the startups, the reason startups work is the people work like hell,' Eric Schmidt told students at Stanford University.
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Bengaluru CEO shares job ad of momo stall offering Rs 3 LPA, while Cognizant settled for Rs 2.5 LPA
Cognizant is currently led by the highest-paid CEO in the country, Ravi Kumar Singisetti. According to reports, he received $22.56 million (about Rs 186 crore) in compensation in 2023.
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Bengaluru YouTuber gets a free upgrade at 5-star hotel in US after viral post on poor hospitality
Responding to Ishan Sharma's post, authorities of five-star hotel Caesar's Palace replied: 'We’re excited to have you at our resort! We appreciate you taking the time to reach out. Feel free to message us if anything else is needed. We hope you have a great rest of your time in Las Vegas.'
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Bengaluru YouTuber in US sparks debate on hospitality after being charged Rs 1,260 for water: 'I'm spoilt with Taj hotels'
Ishan Sharma's now-viral post prompted responses from people who supported his views and from those who did not. 'Is anyone going to point out the obvious… that you can drink the tap water at American hotels, but you cannot at most in India?' wrote influencer Nick Gray (@nickgraynews). 'So in India the free bottled water is likely mandatory and necessary. Whereas in America the bottled water at a hotel is usually fancy.'
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'Bengaluru becoming uninhabitable': Citizens stuck on road for hours due to 'bumper to bumper' traffic
Bengaluru rains: The IMD has issued warnings for heavy rainfall across city, central Karnataka, coastal districts and areas bordering Karnataka and Maharashtra, from Wednesday onwards.
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'NOT okay': Magniflex MD slams Bengaluru airport for using same trays for shoes, personal items
Responding to the complaint, a representative of Bengaluru Airport wrote on X, 'Hello Anand Nichani, hygiene and passenger experience are top priorities for us, thus, we've positioned dedicated shoe trays adjacent to all of the X-rays for ease.' But, the senior executive said he saw flyers using the same trays for shoes and personal items.
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Gurgaon rains: Golf Course Road, where a DLF flat was sold for Rs 100 crore, is in waist-deep water
Gurgaon rains: A 11,000-square foot DLF apartment on Gurgaon's Golf Course Road was sold for more than Rs 100 crore in a resale on October 2023. Despite the huge amount of money people spent on luxurious amenities, visuals shared on social media show the Golf Course area completely underwater.
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Gurgaon rains: Man rides a tractor to buy alcohol amid heavy rain and waterlogging. Watch
According to the district administration, Gurgaon received 53 mm of rainfall by 8.30 am while some areas recorded over 80 mm of rainfall.
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Bengaluru rains: Man stuck in Electronic City-Silk Board bus for 3 hours. 'Aged travellers find it very difficult'
After being stuck on a bus for three hours, when a fellow X user jokingly asked Sridhar Swaminathan if he had packed enough 'breakfast + lunch and maybe dinner for the loong ride to work,' Sridhar replied: 'You can plan for your intakes. How about nature's call?'
