Getting food delivered right at our doorstep anytime anywhere is easier than ever. Thanks to all the incredible on-demand delivery apps available nowadays. All we need to do is download one of the best food delivery apps, make a selection, place an order, and make payment via our smartphone, or pay on delivery.

Not only the consumers but the sellers too benefit from these apps. The latter can invest in food ordering app development to reap higher sales. Also, these apps help sellers in many ways like cost-cutting, online presence, and customer satisfaction.

So, food ordering and delivery are going to be an incredible disruptor in the food industry. In fact, it has begun already and most companies are opting for mobile app development for food delivery.

Zomato

Zomato, an online restaurant search platform, was founded under the name ‘Foodiebay’ in 2008. The company expanded the features by including food ordering and delivery in the top cities of the world. Zomato is now available in nearly 25 countries all over the world including India, Australia, and the United States.Zomato food delivery app offers the list of best restaurants to its users. Not only does it offer the best restaurant choices, but it also works as a social network like Twitter or Facebook for foodies.

Zomato, one of the best food ordering apps, received the latest update, which is built on the foundation of their new design system—Sushi. It brings the following features to the app-

• One search fits all
• Sorted and how
• All answers under one umbrella
• Fastest way to review now
• Brand new profile

Available on Android, iOS. 

Swiggy

Swiggy is the top-rated mobile app, based in Bengaluru, India. With close to 1,500,000 downloads in the play store, Swiggy has been rated No. 1 online food delivery app in India and is currently available in almost all the cities across the country.

Swiggy came up with an idea to provide delivery from the restaurants to big-time urban foodies. Swiggy food app lets customers order their favorite food from their favorite nearby restaurants by detecting the user’s location so that the agent can deliver food as soon as possible.Recently, Swiggy came up with a new upgrade—Wallet Function—where users can store money and pay for transactions on Swiggy.

Available – Android, iOS

UberEats

UberEats is operational in more than 1000+ major cities in various countries around the world. The app enables clients to choose their preferred food from local restaurants and delivers food to the clients’ place in the shortest possible time.

UberEats and Uber are two different apps, they share several similar features such as cashless transactions and expected delivery times. If we can trust Uber to drive us safely around the city, maybe we’ll trust them to deliver you good quality food as well.

The UberEats app is a standalone food delivery app, which is currently available in many countries including Brazil, Japan, Mexico, India, and the United States.

Available – Android and iOS. 

FoodPanda

FoodPanda is quite a famous online food ordering app, which has been operational in 41 countries. The company is headquartered in Berlin, Germany and started service in 2012. The firm has banded together with nearly 40,000 local restaurants in different cities to provide on-time delivery.

The reason behind the popularity of the FoodPanda delivery app is the huge database of restaurants from various cities and the accessibility of rebates and offers. The application accepts credit, debit, and cash on delivery payment methods.

Available – Android, iOS. 

Grubhub

GrubHub’s widespread list of more than 30,000 restaurants in more than 800 U.S. urban communities will make sure to satisfy their customers, thereby making it one of the best food ordering apps. GrubHub has offices in Chicago, New York, and London.

The GrubHub app was launched in 2004, which allowed the company to set up a partnership and build relationships with various restaurants. All the orders are managed by the company’s 24/7 customer service teams.

It offers an option to search for our desired food or browse through the list of local restaurants. We can filter as per working hours, customer feedback, coupons, discounts, and so on. We can even save our order details to our top picks for future orders as well.

Available – Android, iOS. 

Franz Kafka, novelist and short story writer, is known for his often absurd, puzzling and parable-like writing style. Often described as kafkaesque, his writings leave readers on a never ending quest for underlying meanings that he might have intended to convey. In his short story A Hunger Artist, he leaves similar suggestions, that points to a broader picture of the unjust world he tries to portray through his novels. With the protagonist starving himself to earn a living and to believe that his suffering is an art that he is conditioned to do, stands as a silent validation to the socialist society that demarcates duties and lifestyles and pushes mankind to the two extremes of a spectrum. Marxist literary theory, a conflict theory that states that there exists a constant conflict in the society, between its two layers, the bourgeoisie and the proletariats or between the rich and the poor. This will be the perfect lens that we can adopt inorder to analyse Kafka’s work.  

The story revolves around the central character, the hunger artist; a typical representative of the proletarians, starves himself inside a cage so as to entertain his spectators. This enclosed act wherein the protagonist confines himself in a cage and voluntarily starves himself under the authority of an impresario projects the image of a capitalist superpower exerting power, and the working class falling prey to the authoritative superior. The hunger artist sees his life as a performance that he is addicted to, he starves himself for his act. The extreme nature of the act shows how a particular strata of the society is forced to engage in gruesome tasks so as to sustain oneself. This portrays a typical capitalist society that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. The rich exert their power over the working class, only with exploitative outcomes in mind. They reduce the workers into hands that mend money and get their work done. This causes a kind of alienation in such workers. This can be seen when the impresario, treats the hunger artist well on the fortieth day where he is forced to end his fast, the impresario has realized that after forty days the crowd starts to lose interest on the fasting muse, hence he takes away the artists right to fast even when he wishes to do so. Here we see how the artist fails to realise that the goal of his act is only to amaze the spectators which in turn make the impresario rich, he fails to realise this destiny of his act and only concentrates on the brief part he has to play in the big process of earning money for the impresario. The hunger artist, once his profession is no longer trendy, is left with no other work option; another striking feature of capitalism that makes the workers de-skilled leaving them incapable of doing anything other than the small part that they are conditioned to do. This small part that they do mechanically diminishes their status in the work chain, which eventually happens to the artist as well. When moved to a new working environment of the circus, with no profound change in the revenue he was creating, the artist is once again lost. He is forgotten and is later on discovered in a haystack minutes before he dies.

 Here the cage that he is enclosed in constantly, can be seen as the capitalist box of entertainment, it confines the struggles and hardships of the working class and projects it as an entertainment for the bourgeoisie. It also shows the clear demarcation between the two classes existent in the society. The hunger artist stands as the metaphor for the struggling proletarians and the story is the most realistic portrayal of the existing class wars. 

Nowadays, Whether you’re an undergraduate or postgraduate student, seeking a substantive internship has become an integral part of the career trajectory. It is required that students who are willing to enter a particular job industry, should get some prior hands-on experience in the form of internships. It helps to boost an individual’s resume and gives an edge over others. It also provides the opportunity to explore how an industry works.

We are well aware of a large no of organizations that offer internships to eligible applicants but only a few of us may be aware that the various sectors of state govt. also offers internships with a decent amount as a stipend.

Here are some of the state government internships that you can consider to apply : 

Architect Intern

State : Punjab
City : Jalandhar
Eligibility : B. Arch
Role : Working on Architectural projects
Duration : 6 months
Stipend (INR) : 12,000 / month

Apply Here

IT and Computer Engineers

State : Punjab
City : Jalandhar
Eligibility : B.Tech, B.E. background or specialization in computer & information science
Role : Supporting engineers in IT-related functions & other digital platforms
Duration : 6 months
Stipend (INR) : 12,000 / month

Apply Here

Graphic Designer

State : Madhya Pradesh
City : Jabalpur
Eligibility : Diploma in Engineering or BCA, Knowledge in 3D graphics and animation
Role : Designing required graphics and animation
Duration : 2 months
Stipend (INR) : 5,000 / month

Apply Here

Civil Engineering

State : Goa
City : Panaji
Eligibility : B. Tech, Bachelor of Engineering background (specialization in Civil)
Role : Working on civil engineering related projects
Duration : 6 months
Stipend (INR) : 12,000 / month

Apply Here

Web and Application Design

State : Goa
City : Panaji
Eligibility : B.Tech, B.E background or specialization in IT
Role : Developing and managing websites for the corporation
Duration : 6 months
Stipend (INR) : 12,000 / month

Apply Here

Chartered Accountant Articles

State : Madhya Pradesh
City : Sagar
Eligibility :B. Com. background
Role : Assisting finance team, taxation, bookkeeping & so on
Duration : 2 months
Stipend (INR) : 10,000 / month

Apply Here

[9:54 PM,20/07/2021]Priyanshi: Current Scenario of Water Resources in India

Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. Water resources come in many forms but the three major forms are saltwater, groundwater, surface water. Although our earth is called the ” Blue Planet” as 70% of the earth is covered by water yet only 2.5% of the world’s water is fresh, while 97.5% is saline being oceans. Of this small percentage of fresh water, only 0.3% of this freshwater is available from rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, 30% from the groundwater while the rest is stored in distant glaciers, ice sheets, mountainous areas, places that we hardly access. The demand for water from various water users, namely domestic, municipal, agricultural, horticulture, recreation, power, and industrial sectors are increasing.
Now for discussing the current scenario of water resources, we will be discussing two things the availability and the quality of water resources. Firstly, discussing the availability factors, the renewable freshwater resources of the country are only about 4% of those of the world. As in many countries, the water resources of this country are not evenly distributed in space and time. Although some water is received from the upstream countries, precipitation is the main source of water availability. India is an agricultural country and a greater share of the population lives in rural areas. There prevails so much inadequacy of water resources in some areas whereas there is excess supply of water resources in other areas. This much inequity in distribution leads to so many problems. One side of the country is facing floods whereas another side is facing drought , these two opposite phenomena are hitting the country simultaneously. The increased pressure is spilling over the groundwater resources as well because of unhydrological uncertainty growing groundwater contamination problems. Our government is trying to solve this problem that exists due to inequity in distribution of water resources by working on certain projects like transferring huge volumes of water from one basin to another whether there is a lack of water resources.
If we talk about the quality of water resources then we must be aware of the fact that with increasing population, the amount of wastewater discharge also increases. This poses a crucial problem of water pollution to rivers as well as groundwater and thus meeting human water needs and sustenance of aquatic ecosystems remain one of the greatest. Indian rivers such as Ganga, Yamuna are showing a very poor state of water quality in many stretches. Also, the groundwater contamination by arsenic in West Bengal and fluoride contamination in Rajasthan is posing a serious threat to mankind as the drinking water supply is at the stake of great hydrological risk. Arsenic poisoning and fluoride contamination are becoming major bottlenecks in safe drinking water supply and health. Thus water quality management is the most complicated task.
Appropriate water management plans are required to be adopted by the industries to reduce wastewater, water scarcity and to have less stress on the water resources so that they could be used for other essential drinking water supplies. This will facilitate water accountability to industrial consumers and in turn, it will be a significant contribution to water resource planners and for the sustainability of resources as well.

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Welcome to the Tribe World

Yup! there are people in this 21^st century who are into the technological needs . They are the Tribal people. Tribes usually mean a group of people who spend their lives in the forested region. Their major occupation includes Hunting and some sort of cultivation. They have a different culture , religion and Tradition which is drastically different from the us. Adivasi is the collective term for the Tribes of India, who are considered to be the indigenous people of India, prior to the Dravidians and Indo-Aryans. There are more that 1000 different tribes around the world.

1. Gonds Tribes

The Gond Tribe people are found in the Central India specifically in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. They are also found in the other parts like Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh, and Orissa. The Gond tribes are known very well to the languages like Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Parsi and many other Dravidian languages. They have festivals of Keslapur Jathra and Madai and ritual performances are the ones that are very well different and interesting . Kodo or Kutki are the staple foods of the Gonds.

2. Bhils Tribes

The lifestyle of the Bhil tribes is an absolute contrast. This tribal community in India is mostly spotted in the Aravali Ranges in Udaipur and some districts of Rajasthan. Further, the settlements of the Bhil tribes are also found in parts of Gujarat ,Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tripura . Their cultural harmony like Ghoomar dance, Than Gair( a type of dance) is held in the month of January or February . They a speak a language known as Bhili Language. It is a combination of Indo Aryan collaboration.

3. Santhal Tribes

The Santhal tribes are the major tribes of West Bengal and are mostly seen in the districts of Bankura and Purulia. They are also widely seen in parts of Bihar, Jharkhand , Odisha and Assam. The Santhali dance and music is one of the major attractions. They have festivals like Karam, Maghe, Baba Bonga, Sahrai, Ero, Asaria, Disum Sendra and Namah .

4. Great Andamanese Tribes

 The Great Andamanese Tribe, which includes the Onge, Jarawa, Jangil and Sentinelese, are said to be the first inhabitants of the islands. But today a significant number is on its way to extinction.  The Great Andamanese are mostly spotted in Strait Island and parts of Rutland Island.

5. Khasi Tribes

The people of this tribe are filled with lots of music, playing musical instruments like drums, guitars, flutes, wooden pipes and metal cymbals. The Khasi tribes are mostly spotted in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya and are also found in parts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and West Bengal.

• Conclusion

Introduction

The business tycoon, owner of the kingfisher brand and an IPL team (RCB), a former member of parliament (Rajya sabha) Vijay Mallaya caught everyone in surprise when his outstanding debt of 9,000 crores came to the limelight. He owed them money to 17 Indian banks and was accused of money laundering and fraud. In the fear of arrest, Mallya left the country to find refuge in Britain on 2nd March 2016. India had requested for the extradition of Mallya here and to try cases on him. This article discusses the greatest scam of the country and the law, which was invoked to try him for the offences he has committed. The extradition act, 1962 governs the extradition of a fugitive from a foreign country or vice versa where the process can be done either by treaty or arrangement. This article would collectively discuss more on the case and the act.

Vijay Mallya scam

Mallya who took over the business of his father after his demise at the age of 28 only saw his graph going high and there isn’t any turning back meanwhile. He turned the business into a successful one and expanded his business by investing in the airlines and liquor sector. His Kingfisher airlines have become the number 1 airline company and every passenger opted for the airlines to travel.  The global aviation industry in the year 2012 hit the ground because of various factors like tumultuous financial markets and the slowdown economically. Kingfisher had attracted its passengers with its all-economy, single-class layout aircraft and quality eatables and entertainment had faced its worst phase because of the collapse happening in global aviation. India’s civil aviation already had downfalls and every airline is incurring losses, but the 2005 policy decisions in the sector had made it worse. And in this scene of the collapse, Molly took the high step of buying Air Deccan in 2007 which caused financial backlash to the company and molly.

His lavish lifestyle, a king-like living had made him become the brand icon and kingfisher airlines were the result of it, its first take-off was in 2003 and within 2 years the airlines started commercial operations as well. From 4 flights at the start to 104 flights, the airlines glitter in gold and got satisfying responses from the passengers. So, after his decision to buy air Deccan, the kingfisher without having known of its fate entered its pothole. In 2008, various speed breakers were made to run the airlines in non-profitable routes too, hike in fuel price and the airlines succumbed to it. The airlines which once were celebrated over the world had been debt- trapped and when it took measures to prevent the collapse it was too late. All the international and domestic flights were canceled, shares steeped low and 2012 recorded 7,000 crore loss to the company. Meanwhile, the staff went on strike due to the non-payment of salaries to them since 2008. Critics hold that the merging of kingfisher with air Deccan was the main reason for its complete shutdown. Indian express in 2015 reported that as a result of all the poor decisions and inefficient company, Mallya owed loans from 17 Indian banks worst be SBI where he has 1600 crore debt. That’s when he fled to Britain to escape the arrest.

India and its extradition plea for Mallya

With the mounting debts and arrest in due, fleeing the country came as a checkpoint to the country and its governance. They termed him as an economic fugitive offender and started legal proceedings to extradite him back to try his case in an Indian court. Following his arrest, SC in 2017 held him guilty of contempt of court after a consortium of cases were filed by the banks on his non-repayment of his dues. When the case was going on, he meanwhile transferred the huge sum of 40 million dollars to his children. They held that such act was in contempt of Karnataka HC interim order which restrained the respondent to transfer, alienate, dispose or create third party rights in any of his movable or immovable property and thus his transfer amounts to contempt. So the SC had before deciding the quantum of punishment gave him the opportunity of being heard.

Since he had fled, India had filed a plea for his extradition. London magistrate court had ordered his extradition to India and gave him 14 days to appeal the decision. Before that, in the year 2017, he had secured bail in an extradition warrant issued by Scotland Yard and since then his extradition has been bouncing up and back and no complete decision could be ascertained till now. In 2019, Mumbai HC had declared him a Fugitive Economic Offender (FEO) becoming the first business in Indian history to be FEO. The final hearing in the court after the admissibility of evidence submitted by Indian authorities didn’t bring a fruitful solution to the yearlong trial. The extradition order was appealed by the respondents and finally, in 2019, the UK home secretary ordered his extradition which was praised by the Indian community.  Even after 2 years of this order, his extradition was stalled. The British government had rationalized the stall as there are secret legal proceedings that caused the delay.

Extradition laws in India

The Vijay Mallya case had constant pleadings of extradition in it. In international law, extradition is a formal and diplomatic process where the request has been made by one country to another to return the custody of a fugitive or criminal. In India, we have extradition treaties with 42 countries and extradition arrangements with 9 countries in order to ease the process of extradition. The said process is governed in India under the Indian Extradition Act, 1962. The government can issue a notification to the other country of extending the said act provisions to it under Section 3. Cases of the country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with India will also be considered and treated under section 3(4). Under this section, the CG can consider any treaty or convention with another country as an extradition treaty. India is a party to various conventions such as International Convention, 1997, the UN convention against corruption, and the UN convention against transnational organized crime in 2011. Once, the investigative agency filed the charge sheet and cognizance was taken by the magistrate and orders/directions for the accused having committed the crime was given, then a request can be made to the ministry of external affairs on extradition. And such a request should also be accompanied by an open-dated warrant of arrests with it having the details of the offence committed.

Critical analysis

India has a treaty with the UK and the countries are duty-bound under article 1 of the extradition treaty to extradite the person who had committed the crime in their native country and took refuge in the host country. An extradition offence can be punishable by both the contracting parties. As in the present case of Mallya, he was tried in London court for the offences he has committed in India and on the request made by Indian authorities to extradite him to India. If such a person is tried in the requested state court or if he proves the prosecution is unjust, oppressive, prejudiced, or discriminatory, the extradition request can be refused. The extradition of Mallya was delayed for years and various contentions had raised questions about the delay. To answer the apex court, CG had rationalized that there are “secret proceedings” against him in the UK. He was tried in UK court and found guilty though. As India already has a treaty binding the extradition with the UK, it is that the claimed economic fugitive would be extradited and be answerable to the loss he caused to 17 banks. 

Conclusion

The case delay only proves the misuse of laws and proceedings by the rich. The banks, which otherwise acted cautiously, had lost most of their reputation. This case would act precedent to the future. So the government has to make sure that such events do not repeat and should extradite Mallya and set a benchmark for any future cases. The extradition is generally adapted only to lessen the burden of finding guilty of the accused that flee to another country to evade the arrest, so in such cases, the delay even in extradition would only bring further degradation to the law and justice. The Mallya case should be re-corrected and he is tried for the offences he committed in the Indian court and the dues.