UpFront
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JSW Energy switches to the renewable route
Sajjan Jindal-owned company plans to increase portfolio of renewable resources, raises $707 million via debut green bond issuanceÂ
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Steven Levy: Why Alphabet is more conventional than Google ever was
Steven Levy has updated his book 'In the Plex' and now takes a look at how Google has changed over the last decade. In the middle of the decade, Larry Page decided to call the company Alphabet. Alpha meant Google and Bet means the new bets or the moonshine projects it will undertake. Levy believes this structure has made it tougher for these bets like the fibre optics business to succeed on their own and a lot of them have eventually failed. He says Google has become something the founders never wanted to be—Conventional
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Discovering how emerging technologies are transforming the future of healthcare
Digital innovations to drive a unified digital health system in India
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Novavax reports more delays for its Covid-19 vaccine
The delays are the latest setback for the little-known Maryland company, which was granted up to $1.6 billion from the U.S. federal government last year and whose product has shown robust results in clinical trials
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Novavax reports more delays for its Covid-19 vaccine
The delays are the latest setback for the little-known Maryland company, which was granted up to $1.6 billion from the U.S. federal government last year and whose product has shown robust results in clinical trials
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Covid-19 desperation is spreading across India
The desperation that engulfed New Delhi, India's capital, over the past few weeks is now spreading across the country, hitting states and rural areas with many fewer resources
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How CashKaro got its payback from cashbacks (and some cash burn)
A business model built around online product and price discovery with the user promise of hard cash in the bank has helped CashKaro step on the gas in the pandemic year—and, in the bargain, build some serious street cred
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Global cases are falling, but virus surging in countries that had kept it under control
Wealthy nations well stocked with Covid-19 vaccines are gaining control of the virus while it continues to run rampant in other parts of the world, pummelling India and flaring in Southeast Asian countries that had been fending it off
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China's 'long-term time bomb': Falling births drive slow population growth
China's population is growing at its slowest pace since the 1960s, with falling births and a greying workforce presenting the Communist Party with one of its gravest social and economic challenges
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Sadness, anger and schadenfreude with India's Covid-19 Crisis
Bolstering (claiming credit), burying (suppressing information) or boosting (to gain credibility) is the kind of image management that is untimely and counterproductive during a crisis.
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What is mucormycosis, or Black Fungus?
Amid the second wave of coronavirus, cases of mucormycosis or Black Fungus, a rare life-threatening infection are being reported among Covid-19 patients