-Newslaundry.com They are battling job insecurity, variable pay, low base pay, increasing fuel prices, and inconsistency in incentive payments. The irony of Zomato’s website for its delivery workers is hard to ignore. “Ride with pride,” it says. As you scroll down, figures such as “1 lakh + happy partners” and “10 crore + happy deliveries” pop out. This at a time when “delivery partners” across India are far from happy. Over the last two...

-Newslaundry.com A June 14 report in the newspaper about an Indian government agency freezing the accounts of three of Adani Group’s foreign investors had sent its shares tumbling. On June 14, the Economic Times reported that the National Securities Depository Ltd, a government entity which holds securities, had frozen the accounts of three foreign investment funds – Albula, Cresta, APMS – which together own shares of Rs 43,500 crore in four Adani...

-Newslaundry.com The data shows NewsX, News Nation and India News got more ad money than Republic and Times Now. But numbers released under the RTI Act tell another story. In February this year, the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, or DAVP, released data on the Narendra Modi government’s advertisement expenditure in the media. It shows that Republic TV and Times Now, the two most watched English news channels, received fewer government ads...

-Newslaundry.com The state’s River Training Policy appears designed to allow near unfettered mining of sand and boulders by private contractors, bypassing green clearance and scientific assessment. In November 2020, a few months before floods ravaged Uttarakhand, the deputy collector of Purnagiri in Tanakpur district announced an open auction of tenders to desilt the riverbed in Champawat’s villages. Tenders for government work usually seek the lowest bidder, the contractor willing to do the job...

-Newslaundry.com 'What positivity do we look for in people's suffering?' “A 29-year-old man died in the hospital while his wailing wife and children waited outside,” Ronak Shah, a reporter for the Gujarati daily Sandesh said, recalling a tragedy he witnessed on April 12. “The three-year-old daughter kept saying, ‘My father is coming soon and we are here to take him home. I offered her a biscuit to eat, she did not take...