DARK SECRETS: Hyderabad | Vintage Vibes

PVR made a customer sit through 17 mins of extra advertisements before his movie began, ordered to pay Rs 75,000

A Hyderabad advocate who booked a late night movie ticket ended up filing a consumer case after PVR Cinemas ran advertisements well past the scheduled start time, delaying the film and pushing his return home by nearly an hour. The Hyderabad District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has now ordered PVR…

The Economic Times · 2h ago

Dialysis Three Times a Week: The Real Kidney Treatment Burden Indian Families Carry

The numbers behind the scheduleIndia adds roughly 2.2 lakh new end-stage renal disease patients every year, according to data published in the Indian Journal of Nephrology. Of those, fewer than 10 percent receive any renal replacement therapy at all, dialysis or transplant. For the families who do manage to get…

Times Life · 7h ago

What do the latest US visa wait times reveal: Hyderabad, Mumbai near a year for B1/B2 appointments; Delhi at 10 months

Indian applicants seeking US visitor visas continue to face lengthy waits, with the latest US State Department data showing next available B-1/B-2 interview appointments stretching to 12 months in Hyderabad, 11.5 months in Mumbai and 10 months in New Delhi.

The Times of India · 12h ago

US visa wait times: Indians face up to 12-month wait for visitor slots; work visas up to 5.5 months

Indian applicants for US visitor visas are expected to experience long waiting times for interviews in various cities. In Hyderabad, applicants may wait up to 12 months, while Mumbai follows closely with an 11.5-month wait. Other cities face shorter waits, with Chennai at 7.5 months and Kolkata at 6.5 months.…

The Economic Times · Sep 25

Wardrobe Changes Every Indian Makes When Moving From a Small Town to a Metro City

The First Thing to Go: The 'Best Clothes for Special Occasions' CategoryIn a small town, most people keep a mental partition, everyday clothes and good clothes. The good clothes come out for weddings, festivals, relatives visiting from outside. In a metro, that partition collapses almost immediately. Mumbai office floors, Delhi…

Times Life · Sep 25

The Class Signals Hidden in an Indian Woman's Handbag, Footwear and Ironed Kurta

The bag that does the talking before you doA structured leather handbag in cognac or black, carried on the forearm rather than slung from the shoulder, announces a very specific kind of woman before she has said a word. The shoulder sling is casual, democratic, young. The forearm carry is…

Times Life · Sep 25

The Paradise actor Nani owns “Humble” farmhouse in Chevella featuring rustic stone-and-wood architecture with minimalist interiors, a traditional pooja room, lush greenery, a circular ground-floor walkway

Nani Hyderabad farmhouse tour: Nani's film 'The Paradise' is scheduled for release in theatres on September 24 with paid premieres the day before. Directed by Srikanth Odela, the film features a story about marginalised communities facing discrimination in the 1980s. The actor's farmhouse named 'Humble' reflects his love for simplicity…

The Economic Times · Sep 24

Why Clay Idols Dissolve at Different Rates: The Sediment and Oxygen Evidence From Immersion Sites

Clay is not one materialThe word "clay" covers a family of minerals with very different structures. Idol makers across India work primarily with two: natural river clay, which is largely kaolinite, and processed clay bodies that contain montmorillonite (the dominant mineral in what potters call "black cotton soil"). Kaolinite has…

Times Life · Sep 24

‘Our passport is absolutely useless’: Entrepreneur says he pays Rs 1 crore in taxes but gets no international benefit, post goes viral

An X post by Hyderabad entrepreneur Jitendra Emmani has sparked discussion over the international mobility available to Indian passport holders. Emmani criticised visa requirements, documentation and waiting times, while linking the issue to Indians seeking foreign passports. His comments also mentioned his claimed annual tax payments and drew a range…

The Economic Times · Sep 23

What Idol Immersion Puts Into a River: Plaster, Lead Paint, and the Fish Downstream

The chemistry of a submerged idolPlaster of Paris is calcium sulphate hemihydrate. When it enters water, it does not dissolve the way salt does. It absorbs water, hardens briefly, then breaks into fine particulate matter that suspends in the water column and settles into the riverbed. A study published in…

Times Life · Sep 23