Ankita Sengupta

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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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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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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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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 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?'

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It's stock market correction, not crash: Edelweiss MF's Radhika Gupta says 'don't dread the red'

Stressing the need to stay calm, Radhika Gupta said that corrections are normal and that she has witnessed 'crisis after crisis' in her 20 years of investing.

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Namita Thapar, Deepinder Goyal on Sanjeev Bikhchandani: 'He doesn't act like a founder's boss'

Namita Thapar pointed out that Sanjeev Bikhchandani had invested in Zomato in 2010 and stood by the company in their low times. He invested in multiple rounds and didn’t panic or sell when the share dipped 45 percent below IPO price. He followed the same philosophy with Policy Bazaar. 'Today this $86 million investment in both is worth $5 billion and he’s in no hurry to sell!' she said.

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Ex-Microsoft Hyderabad employee says getting fired was 'a blessing in disguise'. Here's why

'I was a senior program manager at Microsoft in Hyderabad. No warning, no explanation - just a cheque and shown the door. The mix of emotions I felt: anger, confusion, and that sinking feeling of failure was overwhelming,' Kapil Kulshreshtha said.

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Bengaluru woman says Namma Yatri driver threatened her in 'scary auto ride'. Cops respond

Vanshita Agarwal, who was travelling with two women and a child, said the Namma Yatri driver kept yelling 'tum ch***** log’, ‘mada*****’ and ‘chu****’. Tagging the Bengaluru police, she said, 'The SOS on the app doesn’t work and even the executives at 112 clearly DO NOT CARE. We were on a call with them in such a panic state and they have not even gotten back to us to see if we’re safe!'

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Bengaluru restaurant denied entry to Ather's Swapnil Jain and Frido CEO for 'wearing slippers'

Frido founder and CEO Ganesh Sonawane admitted to feeling 'stupid that day' but refused to term the incident discriminatory. He, however, said he wanted to share the incident especially after an elderly farmer in Bengaluru was not allowed to enter a mall because he was wearing a dhoti.

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Bengaluru man claims he stopped using Zomato after fee hike. He was charged Rs 115 for delivery

'I used to order food rather frequently, but absolutely nothing from the past two weeks. Thanks, Zomato!' Sumukh Rao, an assistant editor of a technical publication in Bengaluru, said.

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Karnataka job reservation: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw calls for exemption of 'highly-skilled' labour

Bengaluru-based billionaire Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said: 'As a tech hub, we need skilled talent, and whilst the aim is to provide jobs for locals we must not affect our leading position in technology by this move.'

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'Donald Trump is the reason my husband proposed to me': US woman's 'love story' is viral

Ada Lluch, who lives in the US but was born and raised in Spain, said it was during an interaction with Donald Trump at a fundraiser that the former President egged her partner to pop the question.

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'For every job we advertise, we get 100s of resumes. But... most drop out': Sameeksha Capital founder

Founder Bhavin Shah said that during the recruitment process very few job seekers follow the steps diligently to qualify for a job. His take on the current job market struck a chord with other recruiters.

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'Narayana Murthy Saar...': Bengaluru CA's '70 hours per week' plea after using Infosys-made ITR portal

Infosys founder Narayana Murthy had said last October that youngsters should work 70 hours a week if India wants to compete with economies that have made tremendous progress in the last two to three decades.