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When I signed up to make deliveries on Zomato, Blinkit and Swiggy for a day

January 14, 2026 2:39 pm

The Indian Express’s Soumyarendra Barik spent a day each as a delivery worker for Zomato, Blinkit and Swiggy, completing 23 deliveries and earning Rs 782 or Rs 34/hour. That’s the cost of India’s convenience economy: long, punishing hours for precarious earnings

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Govt tells quick commerce firms to drop ‘10-min delivery’ deadline

January 14, 2026 1:55 am

On Tuesday, Union Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya met the representatives of leading platforms including Blinkit, Zepto, Zomato and Swiggy to discuss concerns related to the delivery timelines, sources said.

Two gig workers write: This is why those who Deepinder Goyal calls 'miscreants' go on strike

January 09, 2026 4:09 pm

Discontent also comes from the absolute lack of any managerial care towards riders. We bring our own vehicles and pay for their costs

Ex-Zomato delivery partner, now startup CEO, backs Deepinder Goyal amid gig work debate: ‘Knew riders earning Rs 90,000 a month’

January 08, 2026 12:35 pm

Suraj Biswas said that in 2020–21, before college life fully began and well before his startup took shape, he worked as a Zomato delivery partner in Bengaluru.

As Deepinder Goyal generates buzz with 'Temple' device on forehead, experts advice caution: 'The biggest worry is that...'

January 08, 2026 9:47 am

Dr Sheetal Goyal, consultant neurologist, Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai Central said in clinical neurology, changes in blood flow are studied in conditions like stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury

According to the report, medical professionals have described Temple as an intriguing device, yet they have also advised against exaggerating its current capabilities. (Image: YouTube/ Raj Shamani)

Why Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal is wearing an experimental device called Temple

January 13, 2026 9:50 am

The unique wearable is Goyal’s latest venture that aims to study aging and brain circulation, but its health claims remain unverified.

The device ostensibly tracks the impact of gravity on blood flow in the brain.

Deepinder Goyal’s temple device: Neurologist debunks it, says not proven or tested

January 06, 2026 9:42 pm

Measuring blood flow at one location cannot explain cognition decline or neurodegeneration

The gig economy is designed to fragment labour, absorb disruption and sustain extraction

January 05, 2026 1:15 pm

What platforms offer is not emancipatory visibility but a regime of operational visibility oriented entirely toward capital. Labour is tracked, timed, rated, and priced with unprecedented precision while remaining politically invisible and structurally voiceless

Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal backs gig economy, says it forces consumers to confront inequality: ‘Visibility is the price of progress’

January 03, 2026 10:11 am

Over a series of posts across two days, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal responded to criticism of platform-based work.

Gig workers’ strike raises a question: What’s the cost of convenience?

January 02, 2026 4:05 pm

When we put grocery items on par with an emergency service that we would expect to reach our doorstep quickly, we end up treating our convenience as an inalienable need