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 Car-hailing apps Uber and Ola have received a new warning from the New Delhi transport authorities, ordering both to stop operations until their applications for taxi licenses have finished processing.

 Ola, the SoftBank-backed taxi-hailing service in India, is taking a leaf out of the Uber playbook after it launched a food ordering service. Read More

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Hand-drawn maps such as this are winding up on the desks of urban planners across India. (Courtesy of Humara Bachpan) Every kid likes to draw. But in India, young people living in slums are using their sketching skills to spur urban change.

Tigers remain one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring creatures on our planet. Yet despite being widely revered for their strength, ferocity and beauty, the tiger is in danger.

The ‘sharing economy’ model, which allows users access to things they don’t want to buy or own, is gaining a lot of currency in recent years. But is India ready for it?

Air pollution outside Delhi, India. (Flickr/Jean-Etienne Minh Duy Poirrer) This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

After the Snowden affair, the rise of social media and the sharing economy, some corporations and governments would like us to believe that ‘privacy is dead’. Privacy should not and cannot be dead as that would mean that security is also dead. It is technically impossible to construct a secure information system without privacy as a precondition. And, conversely, it is impossible to guarantee privacy without security as a precondition.

Children from the Salia Sahi slum in Bhubaneswar present a Charter of Demand asking for more street lights in their community.