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The dark side of Chess: Payoffs, points and 12-year-old grandmasters
In 1980, the governing body for chess relaxed rules to make the grandmasters title more accessible and less exclusive. But young players and often their obsessive parents have turned the 'youngest grandmaster' title into a springboard for greater things
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DBS Bank India: Gaining muscle with LVB
Once focussed on corporate banking, DBS Bank India will now compete with larger retail-focussed banks and acquire more business by integrating with the businesses of traditional small business lender Lakshmi Vilas Bank
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2.37 billion people had no access to food in 2020 Covid-19 pandemic year: UN report
As the world shut down and millions of jobs were lost, hundreds of millions of people around the globe either didn't have access to any food, or went hungry, or didn't have access to nutritional food—children and women were more likely to be affected. A look at some key numbers highlight by a United Nations report shows the gravity of the problem
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Trump Organization strips CFO Allen Weisselberg of roles after indictment
The move could be a potential precursor to a wider shake-up at former US President Donald Trump's company, as the reality of the indictment takes hold for Trump and his senior executives
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Increasing health infrastructure should be consistent effort, not a knee-jerk reaction: PS Harsha
The commissioner of the Department of Information and Public Relations in Karnataka, talks about his lessons from the pandemic, and how corporates stepped in to fill the gaps in health infrastructure
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25-year-old copy of Super Mario 64 video game sells for record $1.56 million
The video game, still in its original packaging, and was sold at $60 apiece when it was first released in 1996 and went on to become the bestselling game for the Nintendo 64 console
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VCats & 9Unicorns: A sibling revelry
An incubation platform and accelerator fund are fuelling early-stage investing from 0 to 1 stage. Can the gambit pay off?
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Flipkart raises $3.6 billion funding from global investors, now valued at $37.6 billion
With its first fundraise since being acquired by Walmart in 2018, the ecommerce company wants to expand operations, strengthen supply chain and last-mile deliveries, and digitise kiranas
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Richard Branson wins billionaires space race, ushers in new era of space tourism
Branson's flight reinforces the hopes of space enthusiasts that routine travel to the final frontier may soon be available to private citizens, not just the professional astronauts of NASA and other space agencies
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Covid-19 strategy divides India's villages, vaccine hesitancy unites them
The combination of an uneven virus response — a reflection of huge inequality in resources and the vagaries of local attitudes — and a struggling vaccination campaign has left officials warning of a third wave of infections when the second has at best only leveled off
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Five years of NCLT: The bad loan recovery tool is painfully slow, but still India's best bet
The National Company Law Tribunal report card is not looking good: Recovery rate for resolutions is at a three-year low and average time taken for the resolution process is rising. But with the coming of Bad Bank and persisting problem of bad loans, the need for NCLT cannot be denied