Challenging Proposition: Allowing Covid-19 challenge trials needs careful consideration

Covid-19’s unprecedented health effects and the way this has scrambled socio-economic functioning have fanned anxiety over finding a...

Co-op hospitals a good idea but expanding healthcare will need govt to invest a lot more

It took a pandemic for the government to wake up to the potential of affordable healthcare delivery at the grass-roots; healthcare experts like Dr...

Covid-19 treatment: Keep the debate on plasma therapy healthy

Scientific rigour would treat all knowledge as pro tem till it is incontrovertibly established. Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain ought to have...

Flipkart, Jio deals push VC inflows to $3.6B in September quarter: Report

Globally, VC investment touched $73.2 billion in the third quarter across 4,861 deals, and was led by the booming pharma and biotech sectors. It was...

Bull’s aye: Web series on Harshad Mehta brings to mind my interview with him in 1993

It was March, 1993, and I was in what was then Bombay to do a story for a German magazine on the rich and famous of what later was named Maximum...

Burger King files IPO papers; plans to raise Rs 542 Cr via fresh issue of shares

QSR chain Burger King India files IPO papers, will use net proceeds from the fresh issue to fund the rollout of new company-owned restaurants and...

Food delivery volumes now at 85 pc of pre-COVID value: Swiggy

Swiggy's food delivery volumes have recovered to around 80-85 percent of pre-COVID-19 order value, with the recovery fuelled by the ongoing...

Six myths about remote data collection

A cost-effective approach that is more than just a substitute for in-person surveys. The COVID-19 crisis has affected nonprofit fieldwork, in some...

[YS Learn] What startups can learn from Silicon Valley insider’s book ‘Chaos Monkeys’

Antonio Garcia Martinez abandoned Wall Street to start his own startup, which was acquired by Twitter. He later moved to Facebook

The political twist in the Darjeeling hills

For over a decade, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), led by Bimal Gurung, has supported the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The quid pro quo was...

Grenade hurled at police vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch

Suspected terrorists hurled a grenade at a police vehicle at Kalia in Poonch district late Thursday. Poonch district SSP Ramesh Kumar Angral said,...

Pakistan fighting war in India’s hinterland without weapons. That’s sixth-generation warfare

The Pakistan Army has been at war since its birth. It has been involved in warfare with India, Russia, Afghanistan and is, reportedly, now...

Covid reinfections are real. But here’s why you shouldn’t worry about that just yet

We all suffer multiple bouts of the common cold throughout our lives and never think twice about it. We live with recurring influenza seasons...

Contours of press freedom will be redrawn

The words 'freedom' and 'speech' are both so amorphous and quixotic that we all claim their protection but unabashedly abuse the freedom given to...

Turf war over probe

Even as the Mumbai police are investigating the alleged manipulation of Television Rating Points (TRPs) by news and entertainment channels, the CBI...

Patchy uphill ride

Asmooth, uninterrupted four-lane ride from Parwanoo to Shimla, that the highway widening project envisioned a long time ago, continues to be a...

Afghan peace process needs a neutral facilitator

Maj Gen Ashok K Mehta (retd) Military Commentator After the controversial appearance of the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark...

Let’s carry on with the dignitarian agenda

Ashwani Kumar Ex-Union Minister for Law and Justice On Global Dignity Day (October 21), India joined the world in celebrating human dignity, about...

Media, entertainment sector to grow over 10 pc till 2024, says PwC report

PwC India report says OTT space will the key driver of growth and revenue in India, and will help the country overtake South Korea, Germany, and...

Mohib Ali Nasser: Fine human being, caring friend

Jane wale kabhi nahin aate Jane wale ki yaad aati hai (The departed never return We remember the departed) A couple of years ago, Mohib Ali...

Flipkart to invest Rs 1,500 Cr in Aditya Birla Fashion Limited

Flipkart’s investment into Aditya Birla Fashion will strengthen its omni-channel network while the latter will use this capital to enhance its...

A Winning Combination

When I visited Bihar during the 2015 state election, the first thing I noticed was that all the BJP hoardings there had pictures only of Prime...

Should entrepreneurs play by the book or experiment during a global crisis?

While it is prudent to follow the tried and tested formula in times of crisis, one shouldn’t be entirely risk-averse, for, fortune favours the bold.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Security beefed up ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s rallies

Police and paramilitary forces are on their toes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three consecutive rallies in Bihar on Friday. Personnel...

Maharashtra govt vs CBI — the law and politics behind clash & why it is not about TRPs

New Delhi: The Maharashtra government has withdrawn the general consent extended by it to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe cases...

Forget Chinese, Russians, Iranians. Americans themselves can undermine their elections

Earlier this month, curious emails began arriving in the inboxes of some Florida Democrats. Claiming to be from the Proud Boys, a group known for...

If Trump does not come back, the situation could get worse: Mark Mobius

The US-China trade war has pushed the focus towards India; where India is offering incentives – to companies moving out of China – and wanting to...

A Tale Of Two Leaders

Message Fom Dr Harsh Vardhan

How To Not Waste A Crisis

Throwing Straws Against The Wind

All’s well in Nitish Kumar’s village, except there are no jobs

It’s been 15 years of Nitish Kumar’s chief ministership in Bihar, and the popular belief is that any new government scheme in the state is...

WhatsApp to expand partnerships with biz solution providers

In July, WhatsApp had said there are more than 15 million WhatsApp Business app users every month in India and 50 million globally.

On quiet visit to Mumbai, NCB boss preps for crackdown in Bollywood drugs case

Narcotics Control Bureau director general Rakesh Asthana returned to the national capital Delhi on Friday after a quiet visit to Mumbai to review...

Modi ji, don’t lie to Biharis, says Rahul, blames PM for migrant crisis

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday , raising India-China issue, migrant crisis in...

At Indian banks, new leaders face new challenges

Analysts do not expect the State Bank of India's (SBI) earnings to worsen over the next two-three quarters Image: Himanshu Bhatt / Nurphoto via...

Former Uber chief’s edtech startup is bringing extracurricular and after-school classes online

Bengaluru and Singapore-based edtech startup Kyt aims to replace traditional offline extracurricular schools by offering private and group classes...

Fish fries, Honey Singh at pandals, sound of dhaak — Durga Pujo in 2020 is a silent aching

My father lost his two front teeth in the upper jaw earlier this year and told me that it’s only when you don’t have them do you realise how...

Is this not insult to Bihar? PM Modi on Opposition’s Article 370 promise

Addressing his first election rally at Sasaram in poll-bound Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the opposition for “insulting” Bihar...

[Startup Bharat] Edtech platform BrainsPrep is offering online tuitions to school students in regional language

Based out of Kozhikode, Kerala, BrainsPrep is a web and mobile-based school learning app that provides live coaching, animated videos, study...

Go well, hero of heroes

“Tell my people that I love them. They must continue the fight. My blood will nourish the tree that bears the fruits of freedom.” These were the...

New Delhi must warn Oli govt. Allowing China to use Nepal for anti-India activities has costs

China’s claim to Nepali territory in its north-western district should be seen as part of its larger strategy to encircle India and pre-empt New...

Expand and strengthen the Indian State

Over the past few decades, the public discourse regarding the role of the Indian State in the economy and society has become deeply flawed The...

With time running out, Trump to go on offensive at debate in bid to catch Joe Biden

US President Donald Trump is expected to come out swinging in Thursday’s final presidential debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden to try to close...

Delhi’s air worst in 8 months; 10 of 35 monitoring stations record ‘severe’ AQI reading

Ten of 35 monitoring stations across the national Capital, recorded the air quality slipping into the ‘severe’ category on Friday, as Delhi’s...

Pakistan’s opposition is taking on the army. India should just watch

Pakistan is at another of the inflection points that seem to crop up in the nation’s path every few years largely because of the imbalance in...

Agri reforms: The disjunct between the right ends, wrong means

The protests by the Opposition over the farm bills, and Punjab’s decision to bring in a new legislative framework, brought to mind an apocryphal...

'Mujhe Jeene Do', says Bollywood

I need to make an upfront disclosure; I am a sucker for Bollywood. They provide such dizzying non-stop entertainment that you have to be a...

Virus of communal hatred

Julio Ribeiro At a time when hate hangs heavy in the collective psyche of the citizenry, especially the poorly educated, Titan would have been...

Exit of Eknath Khadse: BJP’s loss is NCP’s gain?

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis cannot escape blame for the resignation of Eknath Khadse from the BJP. The OBC face of the...