UpFront
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Life habits influence BP, particularly among Indians
Dr. Kumar S discusses how Indians are at an increased risk of having hypertension, and how daily living choices define this risk
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Don't hunt for VCs, let them find you': Shomiron Das Gupta
How DNIF, a home-grown, bootstrapped open analytics platform, is holding its own in a segment dominated by heavyweights like IBM and HP
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How many animals have died in Australia's wildfires?
A professor estimated this week that a billion animals had died in Australia's wildfires. But where are these numbers coming from?
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Will Cyrus Mistry walk tall after SC verdict?
Mistry was ousted in 2016, and amidst a reopened legal battle, experts say there was no compelling factor for Tata Sons to remove him as chairman
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Donald Trump, shifting arguments, urges swift dismissal of impeachment charges
An unexpected statement, arriving amid a flurry of tweets, not only appeared to put the president at odds with Republican Senate leaders moving toward a full trial but also contradicted Trump's own words from just hours earlier
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Skills (Expertise is falling out of favour), Lifestyle (Wealthy Indians count the cost as they say 'I do'), Business ($1 billion solar plant was obsolete before it went online; How chicken became the world's most popular meat), and Book Review (Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow)
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Boeing employees mocked FAA and 'clowns' who designed 737 Max
"Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn't," one employee said to a colleague in an internal exchange
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How Rupert Murdoch is influencing Australia's bushfire debate
Murdoch's standard-bearing national newspaper, The Australian, has repeatedly argued that this year's fires are no worse than those of the past
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Indian tech startups raise $14.5 billion in 2019, up 25x from 2010
Technology startups in India had raised a mere $550 million in 2010
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Infosys CEO Salil Parikh exonerated from whistleblower allegations
Anonymous whistleblowers in October 2019, had alleged that Infosys CEO Salil Parekh had flouted accounting norms to land large contracts from multiple customers, and that CFO Nilanjan Roy was complicit too
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Indian market valuations high as US-Iran conflict threat ebbs
With US-Iran tensions climbing down, markets depend on fund flows to maintain current levels