UpFront
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Economics (Some key insights into customer businesses), Lifestyle (What happens when mental-health issues get in the way of work), Technology (The woman who will decide what emoji we get to use; All's fair game for Ransomware 2.0), Community (The story of Japan's 'untouchables') and Podcast (Ray Dalio on how should the rich be taxed most effectively)
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Inside Mark Kahn's vision to accelerate agri entrepreneurship at Omnivore
Kahn, leading India's best-known agri-focussed venture capital firm, is readying for his third fund, at $150 million, to expand investments into game-changing startups in the sector
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Google seeks to break vicious cycle of online slander
Google, which fields an estimated 90% of global online search, historically resisted having human judgment play a role in its search engine, although it has bowed to mounting pressure in recent years to fight misinformation and abuse appearing at the top of its results
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Kim Jong Un calls K-Pop a 'vicious cancer' in the new culture war
After winning fans around the world, South Korean pop culture has entered North Korea, where its growing influence has prompted the leader of the totalitarian state to declare a new culture war to stop it
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Intermediary Rules much worse than believed
Legal experts, technologists and civil society activists believe while some elements of the rules work, many are ambiguous, cumbersome and strenuous on fundamental rights
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News By Numbers: Only 36% of India's 26 million persons with disabilities are employed
According to a Ministry of Statistics report on persons with disabilities, nearly 64 percent of persons with disabilities in India don't have jobs, and more men than women have jobs
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China returns to its strict Covid-19 limits to fight a new outbreak
Authorities have blamed the delta variant, which has caused widespread loss of life in India
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Biden to send 500 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to 100 countries over a year
The White House reached the deal just in time for Biden's eight-day European trip, which is his first opportunity to reassert the United States as a world leader and restore relations that were badly frayed by President Donald Trump
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From Covishield to Novovax: Who will make how many vaccine vials to reach India's 200 crore doses mark
As India reiterates its vaccine policy with an ambitious target of 200 crore doses by year-end, a look at how many vials will be likely made available by each of these seven manufacturers in the August to December 2021 period
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The 200 crore vaccines conundrum: India's inoculation drive needs to relook at pace, price and access
The Centre's ambitious plan of 200 crore doses by the year-end will require ramp-up of production, approval and manufacturing of new vaccines, and removing hesitancy and inequities in access. How realistic are the targets?
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Yash Raj Films opens its studios to vaccinate film fraternity
Production house aims to inoculate 30,000 technicians and crew members in phases so that the show goes on after the industry gets the go-ahead to resume shoots