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South Asia Tech Reporter at Bloomberg @business @technology . @Reuters alum. History student. Opinions are my own. Tips - sphartiyal @bloomberg .net

New Delhi, India
Joined January 2011
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@sankalp_sp
Sankalp Phartiyal
8 months
Quick career update. I am now the South Asia Tech Reporter for Bloomberg News. I will still be based in New Delhi, and expand my beat to cover India's tumultuous and fledgling startup and e-ecommerce sector. Please send tips, feedback and brickbats at sphartiyal @bloomberg .net
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Sankalp Phartiyal
8 years
@ShekharGupta if our land gave him better opportunities and life, why not?
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Sankalp Phartiyal
2 years
Super exited to begin as a tech reporter at Bloomberg @technology with the inimitable @SarithaRai and editors @edwininla , @pelstrom and @BradStone
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Sankalp Phartiyal
1 year
🧵Apple CEO Tim Cook opens the company’s first India store in Mumbai. A thread:
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Bloomberg
1 year
WATCH: The excitement has already begun as people line up outside Apple's first India store hours before its opening. CEO Tim Cook is set to inaugurate the Mumbai stores as the company pivots towards India also as manufacturing base:
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
The man was a daredevil, had a great ear for Hindustani music and was a connoisseur of gourmet food - he found Bombay's best nihari at a so-called Chinese restaurant. @dansiddiqui I'll miss you sorely - in my life and in the newsroom.
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8 months
Dear friends in PR, please don't send across Diwali gifts. A good conversation, a cup of coffee together and your help with a story I'm chasing is the best gift through all seasons. Happy festivities 🥳🥂🎁🎉
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Sankalp Phartiyal
2 years
Signing off from @thomsonreuters after nearly 11 years. A big thank you to everyone who helped me report the stories I did. For now, off to the #moutains on a #bike . See y'all in March.
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3 years
I'm sure this is annoying but I think we've all made mistakes along the way. And perhaps its better to speak to a PR professional personally or even their firm rather than criticizing them on social media.
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3 years
@darthdevi Let them find out on their own. It's part of the learning curve. Also, send her a link to "November Rain".
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2 years
Want cat food or aloo bhujia in minutes? India's quick commerce --funded by big tech investors such as Google and SoftBank-- is here for you. by @SarithaRai via @BW
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6 years
A Myanmar court has sentenced my colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo to seven years in prison for collecting and obtaining confidential documents. They were just doing their jobs. #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo
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6 months
Engineering graduates from the class of 2024 stare at bleak job prospects as software services companies, some of India's biggest employers, haven't showed up for campus placements. @29_ruchibhatia and I report.
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Sankalp Phartiyal
10 years
Trekking and mountain climbing never gets boring. Here's where I spent the afternoon #TulianLake #Kashmir http://t.co/lZg5oLn899
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Sankalp Phartiyal
2 years
Taking an Uber in Delhi, especially when you're in a rush, feels like a job interview you've come unprepared for. Driver: Where do you want to go? How much is the fare? Cash or online payment? Will you come back with me? No? How long will you take there? @Uber @UberINSupport
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2 years
Asia's richest man is reinventing himself. Coal tycoon Gautam Adani wants to persuade the world — and its capital markets — that he's now a champion of green energy. Fantastic Big Take by @christopherkay and @talktosanjai via @wealth
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
My photo's colleague @dansiddiqui and I visited Uttarakhand to report on how India's remote regions are battling COVID-19. We found that poverty, fear and a lack of facilities are adding to COVID fatalities in remote villages, where many shun tests.
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2 years
Interesting advice | @elonmusk Also Threatened to Buy My Company. Here’s How We Handled It
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8 years
@viking1984 passport isn't the sole parameter of Indianness. Someone might feel at home in another country and that's OK. @ShekharGupta
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3 years
What an atrocious thing to do to a bird, just for some "fun". Get a drone man, or better still get a life.
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Someone tied a phone on a parrot. What an amazing view. Look at the speed. PS: Considering you are seeing the footage the phone was retrieved :)
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2 years
A survey, about most annoying office phrases to emerge from the pandemic driven work-from-home culture, landed in my inbox. Here's top five ;D Touch base (35%) Keep me in the loop (31% Ping an email over (29%) Get the ball rolling (24%) You’re on mute (23%)
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
May be I was living under a rock, but I did not know about the Indian Jews in Manipur, Mizoram. @adnanabidi 's story: Homecoming to Israel for 'lost' Jews in India delayed by COVID-19
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
Can anyone help with an oxygen cyclinder for my 65-yr old uncle. BLK Hospital in Delhi us ready to give a bed on condition that we provide for an oxygen cyclinder. @msisodia @ArvindKejriwal
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Sankalp Phartiyal
10 years
You might have to pay more for that iconic 'Pilot' ~ Fans rush to HMT as watchmaker marks time http://t.co/VduL3WE0TZ http://t.co/XDYMQFQ8iT
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6 years
I had fun doing this | VIDEO - Smartphones mean big business in India: via Reuters TV
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8 years
Taking an @Uber back home, riding with a woman driver for the first time. So cool! Hope to see many more women chauffeurs @Uber_Delhi .
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2 years
Is it just me who gets annoyed every time I hear - कृप्या कर के? It's कृपया NOT कृप्या। And for heaven's sake it's either कृपया OR कृपा कर के। @MrinalPande1
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
Friend. Brilliant colleague. Great photographer.
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Reuters Asia
3 years
Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan, an Afghan commander said
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Sankalp Phartiyal
4 years
@chetan_bhagat Nahi nahi, abhi nahi, thoda karo intezaar....
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2 years
ICYMI - China’s Realme is closing in on leaders Xiaomi and Samsung in India, the world’s fastest-growing major smartphone market. Here's how and why
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Bloomberg Originals
2 years
China is dominating the smartphone market in the global tech hub of India. @sankalp_sp explains why More @business
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7 months
Hi @airtelindia ek Guzaarish hai. It's been 24 hours since I raised a request about frequent broadband disconnections. I hope this celebrity engineer can achieve the Lakshya to restore my connection. Or I might have to ask @reliancejio Mujhse Dosti Karoge? Help appreciated.
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Sankalp Phartiyal
10 years
"Film industry does not interest me greatly," Naseeruddin Shah tell me in this interview http://t.co/gAdTiVW4YU http://t.co/89wVRS1JNy
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3 years
India doesn't name Huawei among participants in 5G trials
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Sankalp Phartiyal
11 years
#GoGoaGone is surprisingly funny and entertaining. Kunal Khemu shines
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Sankalp Phartiyal
9 months
I can assure y'all our headlines are always tighter. This is a bad photoshop, and NOT something we reported. Here's the original story:
@iHateApplee
I Hate Apple
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Sorry, WHAT!?!?!?! How is the iPhone 15 launch this bad? #Apple #iPhone15Pro #iPhone15ProMax #iPhone15
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
मेरा शहर
@Himalayologist
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Tallital after the break of dawn
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Sankalp Phartiyal
8 months
Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal is shuffling the deck chairs, as his Vedanta Resources Ltd. approaches a $3 billion iceberg of dollar bonds due over the next two years. @andymukherjee70 asks if the commodities titan can avoid the fate of the Titanic.
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
Fantastic scoop. Do read.
@adityakalra
Aditya Kalra
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Reuters Investigation: Internal Amazon documents reveal a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs & rigging search results to boost its own brands like AmazonBasics & Solimo in India. Amazon exploited internal data to copy products of other firms #Thread
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3 years
All Reuters images we're using from India have been painstakingly taken by my brave colleagues @adnanabidi , @dansiddiqui and others in recent weeks. They are also Pulitzer winners. Anyone suggesting we're using fake images should perhaps take a crash course in journalism ethics.
@TheraseWeeks
Therase 💉💉AZ💉M🐀Wing Defence for the Sewer Rats
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@Oh_come_on_1 @VrijeBosVogel @prashant4121 @ReutersIndia @Reuters @sankalp_sp The final image in the Reuters article shows an Indian lady being treated in hospital. All Google reverse images go back to Google. The furthers back is just 18 hours ago. There is no evidence that the terrible human tragedy unfolding in India was made up by the media.
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10 years
Tired of asking for help, a blind foodie seeks Braille menus in Delhi restaurants| My story http://t.co/NEuCqQ4ujS
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Sankalp Phartiyal
4 years
I have a question - what if a worker has to return to work but doesn't have a smartphone. Will sarkar or company be liable to buy him/her one??
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Reuters Asia
4 years
India makes government tracing app Aarogya Setu mandatory for all workers by @sankalp_sp
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1 year
Breaking - Manu Kumar Jain, the executive responsible for steering  #Xiaomi Corp. to the top of India’s smartphone vendor ranks, has quit the Chinese device maker. More on @business
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7 months
Tata Group is considering selling the home appliance operation of Voltas as the Indian conglomerate foresees difficulties in scaling up the business in a competitive market, sources say via @markets
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Sankalp Phartiyal
10 years
"Film industry people don’t read books," Naseeruddin Shah tells me. More in this interview http://t.co/3SbbCDo7xJ http://t.co/ectgjKz020
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Sankalp Phartiyal
6 years
My eight straight day in Bangalore and the cabbie is just going on and on, on his phone. Is it just me or do @Olacabs and @Uber_India cabbies in the city do the plug-your-earphone-in-and-keep-talking thing all the time? And which telecom network are they on? ;)
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Sankalp Phartiyal
10 years
Not much into selfies, but who'd mind if its with Naseeruddin Shah? http://t.co/EVEP3rzyS1
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Sankalp Phartiyal
8 years
Presenting the new SBI ATM - for gourmets and gourmands ;)
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Sankalp Phartiyal
5 years
@TenzingLamsang That weather and ema datshi could change anyone's mood and turn them into a poet :)
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
देख लो
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Yogi Adityanath (मोदी का परिवार)
3 years
संकल्प का कोई विकल्प नहीं होता है...
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11 years
Nahiiiiiiiiii " @ReutersIndia : Rupee falls more, at 60.50/dollar"
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Sankalp Phartiyal
2 years
Driving in India has led me to believe: 1. A pedestrian's hand has more stopping power than Brembos. 2. Most pedestrians have unshakable faith in my driving skills. 3. Amber = Nitro mode on. 4. U-Turns are for losers; if you've missed one, you must come back from the wrong side.
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
. @syedzakiahmed_ can you please help?
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Rahul Kumar
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#SOSDelhi #SOSDelhiNCR SAVE A MOTHER 😰 No beds oxygen cylinder about to die. Oxygen below 50 Plz arrange oxygen bed/ICU Attendant vinay 8447730783 @sanket @sankalp_sp @saahilmenghani @sahil @sahilkapur @DigitallyBones @duttsanjay @BDUTT @nikhil
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2 years
And I felt like a fool when I sent the wrong person some 300 rupees via UPI | is seeking the return of about $7.2 million it accidentally transferred to a woman in Melbourne. She used some of it buy a house. via @technology
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3 years
I didn't know unsolicited supplies of anything could happen in a high security zone like an embassy! But what do I know.
@DrSJaishankar
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3 years
MEA checked with the Philippines Embassy. This was an unsolicited supply as they had no Covid cases. Clearly for cheap publicity by you know who. Giving away cylinders like this when there are people in desperate need of oxygen is simply appalling. @Jairam_Ramesh
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9 months
Here's why: - India manufacturing cost > than China - Lower/no taxes in Dubai or US. 18% GST in India - Apple India sells through retailers, dealers, resellers & distributors who have a higher margin on iPhone than US telcos who subsidise - Import duty of 22% on Pro and Pro Max
@sandipsabharwal
sandip sabharwal
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Enjoy the advantage of #MakeInIndia #Apple #IPhone15Pro price In India Rs `134900 In USA ~Rs 83000 In most other countries between Rs 90000-100000
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3 years
Got to be a first for me. I just began reading @UnamPillai 's latest and found @Paytm 's ad on the last page. Never seen an ad on a book. Have you?
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2 years
A lobby group including Apple and other technology giants operating in India have called out the country’s authorities for misunderstanding how patent fees work, following local officials’ dispute with Xiaomi via @technology
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Sankalp Phartiyal
2 years
Most days I try and answer calmly. I really really really want this cab. More than food, more than anything else in life at this point in time. But alas! They mostly cancel. Kabhi kisi ko muqammal jahan nahi milta.
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10 years
If you're planning to buy a car and can live with adverts on its exteriors, this financing scheme may help; my story http://t.co/C3IHdpA28P
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9 years
Jim O’Neill tells me India can become world’s fifth-largest economy by the end of this decade http://t.co/U9EfeACwa5 http://t.co/rGzy5YJqtX
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7 years
The scale of the #Rohingya crisis via a graphic
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9 years
My colleague Tommy and I report on Delhi's scorching heat | Labourers toiling in heat wave say have little choice http://t.co/HgU8lGkyiV
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6 years
Haha
@IndianIdle
Ivan Mehta
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Haters will say iPhone is getting costly.
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2 years
@balajikrishnas @TweetsAnup @PRINCE0879 Delhi and Mumbai rains are dust storms followed by heavy drizzles at best and the flooding is man made for the most part. For me, it's always rains in the hills, whether it's Uttrakhand or Himachal. All rain that leaves trees sparkling green and actually cools.
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2 years
Anyhow, happy Diwali to everyone who wasted their time reading a rant from a frustrated passenger who has nothing better to do.🥳🎉
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2 years
Meta Halts Development of Apple Watch Rival with Two Cameras
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1 year
Description of a book on Amazon India. Love the care instruction.
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2 years
Last year, when a global chip shortage forced many smartphone makers to delay launches upstart Chinese brand Realme took a gambit in India. That seems to have paid off.
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Bloomberg
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Chinese smartphone newcomer Realme is closing in on leaders Xiaomi and Samsung in world’s fastest-growing major market
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Sankalp Phartiyal
6 years
Today Bandhan Bank soared in trading debut after $691 million IPO by @dtripathy & @SwatiBhat22 and a throwback to the days it had just won its banking licence - Bandhan eyes India’s banking league with RBI licence by @adityakalra
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7 years
Zia Mody says India is good noisy democracy that has muted over the last couple of years. And the press continues to play an important role. #BVPredicts @Breakingviews
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Sankalp Phartiyal
8 months
Dear friends in PR, Please use my @business email for sending across statements/releases. I don't use Gmail at work, and very likely to miss anything that's not hit my official inbox. Thanks much.
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Sankalp Phartiyal
2 years
To be fair though, I did get the cab this noon. Perhaps, I fielded most questions correctly. Perhaps, it was the mix of exasperation and desperation in my voice. Perhaps the driver was kind. Or all of those.
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3 years
Pets are not toys, please think before having one at home. Remember adopting pets is a long-term commitment and responsibility, unlike having a GI Joe which can go in a bin when you go back to office.
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Sreya
3 years
Received this unfortunate message today. With offices and schools re opening, pandemic adoptions are seeing abandonment. Do not be this person. Let’s help Toffee find a home? Pls RT! #Bangalore
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1 year
A pleasant Saturday eve well spent learning about Raja Ravi Varma, his method and his works. Thank you @TRRVHF for organising this lovely chat. Great meeting you @UnamPillai , let's catch up over a meal next time you're in town.
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Sankalp Phartiyal
6 years
Thanks to fans like @SwatiBhat22 How is the new Mi Mix 2?
@ReutersAsia
Reuters Asia
6 years
Xiaomi usurps Samsung to become top smartphone seller in India By @Sankalp_sp
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Sankalp Phartiyal
11 years
Budget 2013 will not change the lives of the people, says @ArvindKejriwal7 . Read the full interview on @ReutersIndia http://t.co/olGFXItO
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Sankalp Phartiyal
2 years
And just to be sure, super super *excited
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2 years
Weather officials are predicting further severe weather in India's tech hub Bangalore after torrential rain pounded the city, submerged access to office parks and hit back-office operations via @technology
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3 years
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to Delhi High Court - "My Lord, all of us human beings have a bad habit of taking lunch". Wish I was this smooth in school.
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Sankalp Phartiyal
3 years
Perhaps, a better question to ask - is it fair for India to have a website/app for vaccinations where not all have internet, smartphones or are literate?
@BipinSingh
Bipin Preet Singh
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Is it fair for tech folks to get vaccination slots by writing scripts and getting ahead of others who follow manual process and may not be as savvy ?
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Sankalp Phartiyal
10 months
A splintering of the global supply chain threatens to push up prices for #Apple ’s vast consumer base, as producers, shippers and brands grapple with manufacturing in less established locales and managing multiple entry and exit points. Read the Big Take
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Sankalp Phartiyal
7 years
When Dilli ka punjabbi @Ankush_patrakar falls in love with Bombay - this happens
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