New Delhi: Indian grocery startups are luring tech-savvy customers with the promise of deliveries within 10 minutes, sparking a boom in “quick commerce” but heating up concerns about road safety as bike riders scramble to meet tight deadlines. Competition is already intense in India’s $600-billion grocery retailing industry, populated by the likes of Amazon India,…Continue Reading
Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)MELBOURNE: The “Special K’s” circus rolled on in the Australian Open doubles on Sunday, and according to ring-leader Nick Kyrgios and fellow showman Thanasi Kokkinakis, tennis should take note. The Australians filled a Melbourne Park stadium court with 5,000 fans for their second-round clash as higher-profile…Continue Reading
More than 35,000 trains were cancelled in the first nine months of the 2021-22 fiscal year due to maintenance reasons, the railways said in a reply to an RTI query. The national transporter also said that during the April to June quarter of 2021-22, it had cancelled 20,941 trains due to “maintenance reasons”, in the…Continue Reading
Congress veteran P Chidambaram on Sunday said the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) proposal of a pre-poll alliance for the next month’s Goa Assembly elections was not considered by his party as the Mamata Banerjee-led party “poached” Congress leaders in the state. His statement comes three days after TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee said that if the Congress…Continue Reading
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A Taliban delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday started three days of talks in Oslo with Western government officials and Afghan civil society representatives amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.The closed-door meetings are taking place at a hotel in the snow-capped mountains above the Norwegian capital. The first day…Continue Reading
It would have been hard to know in March 2020 that Covid-19 testing limitations in New York City would help lead doctors at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx to a fascinating surprise. Testing for Covid at the time was sluggish and expensive and in limited supply. Hospitals across the city were beginning to overfill. So…Continue Reading
De León was among the majority of council members who voted for the anti-camping ordinance in July and voted again last week to expand it. He recently ran afoul of activists from Street Watch Los Angeles, an advocacy group linked to a local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, whom he accused of “bribing”…Continue Reading
A silver Honda Accord zoomed past exit 150 on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey just before 3 a.m. The driver was an off-duty Newark police officer, Louis Santiago. His cousin Albert Guzman was in the passenger seat.It was the night of Halloween 2021, and Santiago was drunk, according to Essex County prosecutors.He was…Continue Reading
Cheating, croissants, couture — while “Emily in Paris” has transfixed young female American viewers, it is reviled by many of the real-life residents of the city it milks for laughs. In Netflix’s most popular comedy series of 2020, viewers were transported away from the grim reality of the coronavirus pandemic to a glossy, stylish and frankly…Continue Reading