Flipkart’s recently introduced Smart Upgrade System seems to give a glitch just when the features that make it attractive should kick in. In the Smart Upgrade System, a customer can acquire a mobile phone paying two/thirds of the original price. He or she can use it for a year after which she...
Until now lucrative jobs in foreign ships could only be routed through Indian Recruitment and Placement Services (RPS) agents recognized by the Directorate General of Shipping. This regulatory system was brought in place to prevent exploitation of seafarers and ensure that their wages,...
Battery-operated electric vehicles, a trail-blazer in the automotive industry amid rapid climate change, are catching the fancy of an increasing number of customers. Production of e-scooters has started in several states including Tamil Nadu. But news reports of accidents involving e-scooters...
Facing an acute paucity of funds, Chennai’s premier social science thinktank, the Madras Institute of Development Studies, popularly known as MIDS, has reached out to Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Dr Palanivel Thiagarajan for financial support from the state government. Dr Thiagarajan was the...
Nearly two years before the COVID-19 pandemic laid low the travel and hospitality sectors, the Union Civil Aviation Ministry had zeroed in on 21 cities which needed a second airport, to meet the peaks of passenger travel and freight transport as the economy grew. For Chennai, in May 2018, the...
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party of Tamil Nadu, said the petition on “freebies” is politically motivated and asked if the BJP-led Union government’s move to waive off loans of companies is not freebies for the corporates. In an application seeking to implead itself in the...
India celebrated its 75th Independence Day only on Monday, but an event in a western suburb of Chennai three days earlier is potentially the harbinger of change in perceptions around Indian Railways, on what the country’s manufacturing industry can achieve and how the much reviled public sector...
The Sri Lanka - China relationship reminds us of the world of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist asked for more, everyone was shocked, and he was duly punished. But today the crisis-ridden Sri Lanka knocks at the door of China yet again and asks for a lot more - -- “Sri Lanka has asked China to help...
What is property attachment? Property attachment is often in the news with reports that the property of politician being investigated has been attached. Recently the Supreme Court gave the enforcement directorate powers to attach the property of the people it is investigating. In law,...
The recent power tariff hike has thrown the spotlight on the quality of services offered by Tangedco. Many consumers may not mind paying higher tariffs to keep Tangedco in business but would prefer that the services rendered match the charges they pay for the power. Many households across the...
