UpFront
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Does India care about free speech? Lesser than Russia
India ranks 25th out of 33 countries in its support for free speech, a survey of 50,000 people done by Danish think tank Justitia and British data analytics firm YouGov found. It further assessed that while 'in principle' support for free speech is high everywhere, it drops significantly, even in India, when confronted with competing values like religion, health, and national security
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Richard Branson will try to beat Jeff Bezos to space with July 11 flight
If all goes as planned, Branson will make his flight nine days before Bezos, the founder of Amazon, straps into the New Shepard capsule built by his rocket company, Blue Origin
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Trump's business is charged with 'audacious' tax fraud
Although Trump was not accused of a crime, an indictment of the company that carries his name strikes a blow to the former president just as he has resumed holding rallies
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News By Numbers: New Delhi joins Canadian, US cities to ride the unprecedented heatwave
New Delhi, India's capital, was among the hottest cities—Lytton, Canada and Salem, US— in the world on June 30. Alas, the reason wasn't the thriving culture
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After 20 years of bootstrapping, is Bhavin Turakhia switching from value to valuation game?
For over two decades, serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia stayed bootstrapped. With Zeta now a billion-dollar company, can he script bigger success with loads of external money and his obsession with focus?
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Didi, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, makes its debut on Wall Street
In April, Didi was one of nearly three dozen Chinese internet companies that were hauled before regulators and ordered to ensure their compliance with anti-monopoly rules and to "put the nation's interests first"
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Pandemic surges again in many parts of the world, fuelled by variants
A year and a half since it began racing across the globe with exponential efficiency, the pandemic is on the rise again in vast stretches of the world, driven largely by the new variants, particularly the highly contagious Delta variant first identified in India
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The woes and woes of Twitter in India
Within 48 hours, Twitter has been sent a letter by the IT Parliamentary Committee, has had three FIRs filed against it, has received another letter from the National Commision for Women, and been dragged to the Supreme Court over a 10-day old FIR
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Parliamentary Committee questions FB, Google over compliance with IT Rules, traceability, privacy
Shashi Tharoor-led panel questioned platforms over enabling traceability and data storage practices, FB India MD backs contentious IT Rules
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News by Numbers: IoT—Internet of Thieves
The 2021 Norton LifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report defines a cybercrime as having personally experienced a crime committed with devices over the Internet. This includes crimes such as theft or fraud, and crimes that target other computers and connected devices to access the data on the device or that affect the device's operation
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How A Velumani, a landless farmer's son, built Thyrocare into a billion-dollar behemoth before a surprise sell-off
The deal with PharmEasy, India's first e-pharmacy unicorn, will give Thyrocare an opening into B2C business and its founder an investing foray into the burgeoning healthtech sector