Soutik Biswas
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Captain Smit Machchhar: Friend on Indian pilot hailed as a hero (opens the original)
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When Captain Dharav Gosalia first heard what had happened to his old friend Smit Machchhar, he had one immediate reaction. The two men have known each other since they were about 20, when they were neighbours in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb, and began their flying training in New Zealand. Machchhar was Gosalia's senior. They later spent six years as colleagues at SpiceJet, flying Boeing 737s, before their careers took them in different directions. Machchhar moved to Dubai and joined Flydubai in 20
Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh: The children dying in India's remote tribal heartland (opens the original)
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Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing At about 3am one morning in May, Bamita Markam began convulsing. The three-year-old had spent days with a high fever and angry red sores on her body. Her mother, Koushila, had first taken her to a doctor, who prescribed an ointment. Bamita seemed to recover, then became ill again. A faith healer, called to the house in Matla village, gave her syrups and tablets. Nothing worked. By dawn, Bamita was dead. "She cried a lot," K
Dopamine sites: India and the world are discovering the thrill of shopping without buying (opens the original)
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You are hungry. Or you are not. It doesn't matter. You open FoodNeverComes, pick from 22 cuisines and start scrolling. Butter chicken looks good. So does bibimbap. You add a few dishes, watch the total climb and hit checkout. A tracker says a rider is on the way. Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site. He is outside your building, he says, but cannot find your street or door. Except there was never any food in the first place. The order exists only on the screen. "Order the
India faces 100% tariff threat over Russian oil after US House vote (opens the original)
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For four years, India, one of the world's biggest oil importers, has turned Russia's war-driven disruption of global oil markets to its advantage. Russian crude, displaced from western markets after the invasion of Ukraine, has flowed instead to Indian refineries, often at attractive discounts. The arrangement has lowered the cost of one of India's biggest imports and given its refiners an abundant source of crude. Now that bargain is becoming a source of geopolitical risk. The US House of Repre
Why cash continues to thrive even as India's digital payments grow - AOL (opens the original)
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Every year, more Indians tap, scan and swipe. Every year they also hoard more paper. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) - the country's central bank - now has 176 billion banknotes in circulation. It's printing 28-30 billion fresh ones across six denominations annually and retiring roughly 21 billion. It is a vast logistics operation. And yet, as Unified Payments Interface (UPI) digital transactions surge towards a billion a day, cash sloshing around the economy keeps climbing at a brisk pace. "Cur
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