UpFront
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Why India struggles to win Olympic Gold
Aside from a string of men's hockey wins generations ago, India has won only one other gold in its Olympic history, in shooting in 2008. But every four years — in this case, five — the same questions are posed in India. Why is the country so bad at the Olympics? And does it even matter?
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Responsible AI: Putting humans at the centre of artificial intelligence
Organisations need to adopt basic principles for responsible artificial intelligence to gain competitive advantage; they must also design systems that can effectively deal with biases
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The Indian Algorithmic Services: When AI gets to decide who gets welfare
Certain kinds of technologies, colloquially and collectively labelled as artificial intelligence, are gradually replacing bureaucratic agency in making important executive decisions and government functions that have social consequences
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Climate change could devastate emperor penguins
The penguins live much of the year on Antarctic sea ice, which is disappearing or breaking apart because of the heat-trapping gases released by humans' use of fossil fuels
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Elevation Capital backs The Souled Store in series B funding
Merchandise and casual wear brand to widen product portfolio, expand offline retail presence, and grow D2C business to Rs 1,000 crore in four years
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How much salt is too much salt?
Earlier this year, WHO released a set of new benchmarks for sodium level for many food categories to encourage food manufacturers to reduce sodium in processed foods. A look at sodium's connection to our health, and several myths and facts regarding salt intake
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Outside the Olympic cocoon, a Tokyo abuzz only with Cicadas
What is missing are the normal sounds that animate an Olympic host city, a window ajar with the TV broadcasting a thrilling final or a bar crowded with revelers celebrating the latest gold medal. There are few Olympic billboards in Tokyo
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Virender Sehwag's athleisure brand goes online, eyes Rs 100 crore revenue in 3 years
Cricket legend counts on ecommerce and his own brand equity to go pan-India through tier 1 and 2 cities
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What is e-RUPI and how does it work?
All you need to know about e-RUPI, the new digital payment system created by NPCI and inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi
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From incredulous to incredible: How OfBusiness turned into a profitable unicorn
In 2016, Asish Mohapatra's funding pitch got rejected 73 times. Five years later, his B2B commerce platform OfBusiness is valued over $1 billion
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Women in entrepreneurship: India ranks in the bottom 3 out of 43 countries surveyed
Angola tops the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2020-2021 list, while Italy ranked at number 43, last one the list in terms of female activity in entrepreneurship; top motivations to start a business in India for men and women founders include scarcity of jobs or to make a difference in the world