UpFront
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Regional podcasts find their voice
Homegrown non-music audio startups have been seeing a tremendous increase in user base since the lockdown, but getting people to pay for content and becoming self-sustaining are big challenges. According to a new PwC report, the music, radio and podcast industry is expected to have a total revenue of nearly $1.7 billion in 2024
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IN PHOTOS: Behind the scenes at the first digital Lakmé Fashion Week
What the glamour of fashion week looks like for the crew in the age of Covid-19
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How Kurkure kept its crunch for 20 years
PepsiCo India's first homegrown brand has safeguarded its positioning in the extruded snacks market for over two decades, but will there be twist in the tale?
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A teacher, his killer and the failure of French integration
For generations, public schools assimilated immigrant children into French society by instilling the nation's ideals. The beheading of a teacher has raised doubts about whether that model still works
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How big are US elections?
A look at the number of registered voters in the most recent national election across countries
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Trump had one last story to sell. The Wall Street Journal wouldn't buy it.
The Journal had seemed to be the perfect outlet for a story the Trump advisers believed could sink Biden's candidacy
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China aims to end extreme poverty, but COVID-19 exposes gaps
Xi Jinping, is expected to declare victory in the next two months in a campaign to eliminate extreme poverty in the country
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In the Crosswinds
Ajay Singh belongs to a rare breed that revels in the Herculean odds of turning around an airline
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Sports (Solving NFL's scheduling conundrum), Business (Covid is rewriting the rules of corporate governance), Geopolitics (Game of alliances in a possible India-China conflict), and Lifestyle (Negative thinking can actually fuel success!)
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Covid-19: Work from home burnout is real
41% say work from home is negatively impacting their well-being and 29% workers are experiencing increased burnout while working from home
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Trump vs Biden: Who said what on key issues in final presidential debate
As Donald Trump and Joe Biden went up against each other in the final US Presidential debate, here's what they said on coronavirus, Russia and China, climate change, the healthcare system, and more