The Reasons Behind Mumbai’s Ever Increasing, Unaffordable Home Prices

By NISHI SAWANT | INNLVE

There are many ways to describe Mumbai. India’s financial capital. Maximum city. The city of dreams. The city of seven islands.

And as most who’ve lived there would surely know: India’s most expensive housing market.

How India’s Cigarette Makers Got Their Butts Kicked For Resisting Graphic Warnings On Packets?

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

A heads-up for smokers in India: your cigarette packet will soon be wrapped in a bigger, more graphic, health warning, especially if you are partial to those made by ITC.

After a month of back and forth, India’s largest cigarette maker has fallen in line with a health ministry notification that requires 85% of cigarette packets to be covered with pictorial health warnings. The Indian government is pushing for tighter regulations on sale of tobacco products, which cause over a million deaths in the country every year.

HOW MANY MORE? The Indian Police’s Guide To Royally Screwing Up A Rape Investigation

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

The body of the 29-year-old lies in a pool of blood in a shack-like house. Thirty deep wounds all over. Private parts slashed over 20 times. Stab wounds on the back of her head, on the chest, chin, and cheek. Intestines pulled out by an iron rod thrust into the vagina, chest torn open by stabs.

And it is not 6 pm yet. She lies dead for over two hours before her mom returned after the day’s labour.

Special Story: Can An Indian And Pakistani Be Friends?

By LIKHAVEER | INNLVE

On both sides of steel gates dividing the two nations and amidst chanting crowds, hurling emotions and drumbeating boots, patriots refueled their nationalism.

Unaware, they engraved the hard and bloody line of control further. Tremors of which can frighten their succeeding generations. Living and celebrating different national realities are justified, however only without demeaning the other. What occurred in 1947 was meant for a new beginning, not to create the Indo-Pak conflict, but to prevent it.

THE BIG STORY: Terror As Farce - Malegaon Acquittals Shows How Easy To Charge Muslims With False Terror Cases?

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

In 2006, terror attacked the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. A bomb blast near the town’s Hamidia mosque killed 37 people and severely injured 100.

Investigations by the National Investigative Agency strongly pointed to a Hindu terror angle behind the bombing of the mosque. The shadowy Abhinav Bharat group was seen to have carried out the blasts and was also the prime accused in the bombings that followed in the town two years later, in 2008.

The Huge Problem With Genetically Modified Cotton That’s Ruining India’s Agriculture

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

In the last 20 years, nearly 300,000 farmers have ended their lives by ingesting pesticides or by hanging themselves. Although successive governments have tried to help farmers by implementation of various schemes, there is no change on the ground. What is the reason behind such an alarming rise in number of suicides?

India has now shifted from natural cotton seeds to BT Cotton. The firm Monsanto has claimed that crop yields will improve and the dependence on chemicals and high irrigation will decrease. It has now been found that the claims were not true and farmers have to resort to buying more pesticides to spray in the fields. Ironically, the chemicals used like pesticides and insecticides, are provided by the sister companies of Monsanto.

The Modi Government Is Developing The 'Baap' Of All Apps—For 200 Public Services

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

One app to do it all, one app to find them.From passport services to income tax, from railway ticket bookings to land records, the Narendra Modi government is working on a mobile application project that’ll eventually bring some 200 central, state and local government services onto a single platform.

In the pipeline for over eight months, the Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) project was conceptualised to tap into India’s smartphone boom.

Why BJP's Nationalism Is Like An Autoimmune Disease?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

Patriotism confers upon nations a degree of protection against attack by indoctrinating citizens into defending their country even at a risk to themselves.

As such, it has its uses, since we crave the security afforded by a stable nation state. In certain circumstances, though, nationalism behaves like a hyperimmune condition, treating benign phenomena as hostileattacks. At that point, patriotism becomes a threat to the nation’s health rather than a guarantor of security.