UpFront
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Murdoch's Australia news outlets to ease climate denial
After years of casting doubt on climate change and attacking politicians who favoured corrective action, Rupert Murdoch's media outlets in his native Australia are planning an editorial campaign next month advocating a carbon-neutral future
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Air pollution is now a matter of life and death
Until adequate measures for transformative change to prevent air pollution at source are firmly in place, Indian cities will remain highly polluted, causing illness and death, and adversely affecting our GDP and climate
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World's highest paid athletes 2021: Conor McGregor no 1; Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams the only female athletes in top 50
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant, among others, made it to the Forbes list of Top 10 overall highest paid athletes 2021
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Jet, Set, Debt: How InnoVen built its equity among unicorns
India's biggest venture debt fund has enabled unicorn founders to strike a delicate balance between less dilution and more growth
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Meet the soonicorns: These 10 companies could soon turn unicorn
Fintech, ecommerce and SaaS companies lead the future, according to a Hurun India report
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Covid-19 deaths surge across a weary America as a once-hopeful summer ends
More than 1,500 Americans are dying most days, worse than when cases surged last summer but far lower than the winter peak
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How's Hollywood to plan when it doesn't know who's watching what?
The box office remains sunken and scattershot, with once-reliable audience patterns upended by the coronavirus pandemic and, for many films, ticket sales cannibalised by instant availability on streaming services
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Our top reads of the week
From the questions the National Monetisation Pipeline plan needs to answer to how air pollution is reducing the life expectancy of Indians and the frenzy around India's Olympic athletes, here are the top reads of the week from Forbes India
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How will the Taliban govern? A history of rebel rule offers clues
A tightly bureaucratic authoritarianism, albeit sometimes allowing a degree of political opening and a a focus on controlling or coercing elements of society seen as tied to the old order, sometimes through staggering violence, are among the common traits
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Climate change is bankrupting America's small towns
Rather than bouncing back, places hit repeatedly by hurricanes, floods and wildfires are unraveling as residents and employers leave, shrinking the tax bases and making it harder to fund basic services
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Short on money, legal and otherwise, the Taliban face a crisis
The Taliban won the war in Afghanistan and an economic crisis may be their prize