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OTT platforms ask for more time to comply, MIB remains non-committal
Industry seeks more clarity, expresses concerns about newly notified Digital Media Code of Ethics in a closed-door meeting with the minister
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'She is a hero': In Myanmar's protests, women are on the front lines
Despite the risks, women have stood at the forefront of Myanmar's protest movement, sending a powerful rebuke to the generals who ousted a female civilian leader and reimposed a patriarchal order that has suppressed women for half a century
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Brazil's Covid-19 crisis is a warning to the whole world, scientists say
No other nation that experienced such a major outbreak is still grappling with record-setting death tolls and a health care system on the brink of collapse
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Razorpay's 'full stack' ambition
The fintech unicorn has gone beyond payments into neobanking and facilitating loans and insurance. The dream is to become the only financial platform a business will ever need
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EXPLAINER: What is vaccine efficacy and what does it mean?
As Covaxin shows vaccine efficacy of 81 percent, a look at what efficacy means, how it is calculated, the difference between efficacy and efficiency, and more
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Krishna Ella: How a farmer's son gave India its first successful indigenous Covid-19 vaccine
As Bharat Biotech's Covaxin shows an interim efficacy of 81 percent, Forbes India traces the career of the founder, whose entrepreneurial journey has seen a successful track record of developing vaccines in India for the world
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Plan to ditch the mask after vaccination? Not so fast
While all of the Covid-19 vaccines are spectacularly good at shielding people from severe illness and death, scientists do not know whether vaccinated people spread the virus to those who are unvaccinated
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Amazon quietly tweaks logo some say resembled Hitler's moustache
The much-mocked app icon, with a smile-shaped arrow beneath what looked like a toothbrush-style moustache, was unveiled in January
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India's first woman airline CEO has ambitious goals. Can she take off?
The first woman pilot hired by Air India, Harpreet A De Singh is now charged with turning around the fortunes of its subsidiary Alliance Air
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Uttarakhand's first women's commando force set to hit the ground running
22 women police officers will join counterparts in three other states to be part of an elite force
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Vaccine passports, Covid-19's next political flashpoint
While such passports are still hypothetical in most places, Israel became the first to roll out its own last week, capitalising on its high vaccination rate