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H-1B ban beyond December could boost offshoring: Nasscom
Last Tuesday's order by US President Donald Trump, suspending the H-1B and some other non-immigrant visas, could push companies to send more IT work to centres outside the US—in India and elsewhere—Nasscom, India's IT industry lobby says
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What the iPhone 12 will look like
A look at the evolution of Apple's flagship iPhone over the years, and what analysts expect from the 2020 iPhone 12 variants
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Flights banned, son sails solo across Atlantic to reach 90-year-old father
An Argentine man stuck in Portugal because of the virus travels for 85 days to be with his family during what he thought was the 'end of the world', in the only way he could: in a small boat
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TikTok is shaping politics. But how?
Two researchers have studied political expression on the app since the Musical.ly era. Here's what they found
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Can the 4-minute Upma do a 2-minute Maggi?
Nestlé is betting big on ready-to-eat products under its blockbuster Maggi brand. Can poha and upma replicate the magic of Maggi?
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10 maps that explain the world
From countries that have had female leaders to the most population-dense regions, here's a compilation of unusual maps that help us understand how the world works
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Investing (Five levels to become the master investor; Buy-and-hold myth; Green investing has shortcomings), Business (Coronavirus rips a hole in newspapers' business models; Meet the 13-year-old entrepreneurs), Lifestyle (Why so many smart people aren't happy) and Geopolitics (Art of war and Sino-Indian business).
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What will happen with weddings?
How people marry will evolve, and many of the adjustments that we have seen over the last few months are here to stay—sanitiser stations, more room for standing and several smaller celebrations instead of one big bash, for instance
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The team that Liverpool forgot
Liverpool's men have added a Premier League crown to their European and world titles, while the club's underpowered, overlooked women's team has just been relegated
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'Hamilton' is coming to the small screen. This is how it got there
The public will now finally get a chance to see a live-capture of the stage show. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Disney, which last year outbid competing studios for the rights to the film, announced that it would forgo a planned theatrical release and instead stream it on Disney Plus starting July 3
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Lightning and violent rainstorms kill scores in India
The victims included many farmers working in their fields and children playing outside. At least 83 were reported killed by lightning in Bihar alone