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News By Numbers: One death by suicide every 4 minutes in India
In 2019, 140,000 Indians died by suicide, with top reasons ranging from family problems to marital issues
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Hundreds of Google employees unionize, culminating years of activism
The union's creation is highly unusual for the tech industry, which has long resisted efforts to organize its largely white-collar workforce.
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In a Topsy-Turvy pandemic world, China offers its version of freedom
While many countries are still reeling from COVID-19, China has become one of the safest places in the world
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From 'Laxmii' to 'Tiger King', here's your cringe-binge list
The 2020 disruption produced some choice gems to entertain you. While one always looks for classy and enriching content, there is fun in sitting through a cringe-worthy movie or show.
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If U2 could play in India, so can a Barca or a Real: LaLiga India MD
Jose Antonio Cachaza on the rise of India as a market for the Spanish league and how it's looking to recover from the Covid-induced losses
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Adrift: The world we passed in 2020
The year that passed saw the humanity scramble—first to make sense of the threat that made us retreat, and later to cope with the idea of retreat itself—and here we are at the beginning of a new year, adrift, making sense of our vulnerability as a race
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2021 will be a year of recovery and revival: Riyaaz Amlani
The CEO and MD of Impresario on surviving a tough year, and why a big boom is in order
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'A slap in the face': The pandemic disrupts young oil careers
With fewer people commuting and traveling, the oil and gas industry has taken a punishing blow, and Oil companies have laid off more than 100,000 workers
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India approves Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and one other
Criticism about the lack of clarity on the data that the regulator examined came swiftly after the two vaccines were authorized for emergency use
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Living in hope in 2021
Innovation came back in a year in which a virus ran amok, killing hundreds of thousands. It took a global humanitarian crisis to bring it back. That--and a tribute to Unsung Heroes of 2020 in our latest issue
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Hit Hard by the Pandemic, Mexico's Drug Cartels Tweaked Their Playbook
During the year, some traffickers have increasingly relied on newer tools like drones and cryptocurrency and on creative uses of older approaches like underground tunnels and sea routes.