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Cyber crime, cops and the law

The increasing use of laptop and mobile phones among today’s youth has had a worrisome consequence — it has given sexual predators, paedophiles and ...

A tea vendor’s dilemma

For Sendhil, who sells tea going around on his bicycle, the smartphone is a Hobson’s choice. “I need it as it helps me accept payments through Paytm.” ...

The three risks — content, contact, conduct

Researchers now typically organise the wide range of risks encountered online into three categories — content, contact and conduct risks.Content ...

Digital Bytes

Youth (ages 15-24) is the most connected age group. Worldwide, 71 per cent are online compared with 48 per cent of the total population. Children and ...

Cyber crimes against children are on the rise and how to check them is a billion-dollar question. Venkatesh Ganesh and Jinoy Jose P shine a light on the murky world of online crime that targets young minds

What’s smart about Smart Cities?

The Smart Cities Mission has not visibly improved living conditions or citizens’ participation in urban governance. Radheshyam Jadhav reports

Is it just about a few glitzy effects?

Ahmedabad, a city with a population of over 70 lakh, is gradually seeing some order. Even when it is closer to midnight, commuters ‘honour’ the ...

Smart cities: A concerned citizen’s guide

They are a work in progress across the globe

What is really smart about smart cities

How different is the idea of a smart city from JNNURM? Experts say JNNURM was focused on creating city-wide basic infrastructure whereas the Smart ...

In Mangaluru, it’s private buses all the way

If you happen to be at Hampankatta (the central business district of Mangaluru) and want to visit the famous Mangaladevi Temple, there is a city bus ...

TheBESTfour-wheeler for our cities

The promotion of metros as a favoured mode of mass rapid transit seems to have led to a policy neglect of buses in large cities. The recent BEST strike highlights this neglect as well as demands to privatise mass transport systems

Excluded from public transport

For the working poor in cities, commuting is an extremely costly affair

A reading retreat for the lower middle class in Delhi

Seema Chandravanshi has been preparing to crack the Civil Services examination for about two years. A resident of Yamuna Vihar in north-east Delhi, ...

Did you notice the return of libraries?

...as a part of a social movement in Kerala

UP govt action hits lakhs of tannery workers

It’s a bright January morning but a fog of gloom hangs over old Jajmau road near Kanpur. About 30 men, old and young, huddle in front of a small ...

Cocktail of spiritualism, money and logistics

The UP government is gearing to host around 12 c

The business and politics of Kumbh

Repackaging the Ardh Kumbh supplements fresh chants of Ram Janmabhoomi in the BJP’s effort to consolidate the Hindu vote in an election year. Poornima Joshi reports

Something’s churning

The New Year heralds an election season marked by yearning, anger, uncertainty — and above all, hope. Poornima Joshi reports

What Ayodhya has lost in temple politics

The town has tried in vain to emerge as anything but a disputed site that divides religious communities

‘There’s been a shift in the national mood’

Politburo member of the CPI (M) and former general secretary of the party, Prakash Karat, speaks to BusinessLine on the key political issues in the ...

‘The BJP government is killing MGNREGA’

Modi regime is spending more on material component, less on labour, so people are not benefited, says CP Joshi

Making a mockery of MGNREGA

In Maharashtra, it appears the rural jobs scheme is being implemented on paper alone. Contractors, government officials and gram sabha heavyweights cream away the funds,reports Radheshyam Jadhav

Crowdfunding as a saviour

In March 2015, when she was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer, Bengaluru-based Priya Joseph* (name changed) decided to fight it the best way ...

‘Flawed model’

From a conversation with Amit Sengupta:Critical of an insurance-based model, the late Amit Sengupta from Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) had said that it ...

Are Ayushman Bharat rates out of sync?

Indu Bhushan (57) is at the helm of what is pegged as the world’s largest government-funded health scheme — Ayushman Bharat, which provides health ...

You just can’t afford to be sick

Healthcare in India is unaffordable for most people. However, the wheels of health financing are beginning to turn, but slowly, says PT Jyothi Datta

‘The Queen’ of the South is weighed down by waste

Ooty’s infrastructure serves far more people than it was meant to handle

When you do too much tourism

The effects of ‘Incredible Overkill’ are only too visible in Shimla and Ooty, where the courts have stepped in. But whether it is the Himalayas or the Western Ghats, the problem lies in the development model, says Poornima Joshi

Herbal alternative to formalin

S. Sabu, Assistant Professor in Quality Assurance and Food Safety with Cochin University of Science and Technology is in the process of developing a ...