UpFront
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Cover story: How Covid-19 has forced a clutch of startups to pivot
How companies like Delhivery, Clovia, Cars24 and JetSetGo have moved away from their core in the pandemic, or added to it
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Ep. 17. Bhavdeep Kang: The untold story of Ashok Khemka
53 transfers in 28 years. That's how often IAS officer Ashok Khemka was transferred around; that's an average of 6.5 months versus the norm of two years. On this week's episode, the co-author of the book 'Just Transferred' chronicles the story of Khemka, an unlikely hero, whose tale also speaks of how democracy has been undermined by bureaucracy in India
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Low margins, lower demand
Industries with slender margins must move quickly on reducing their cost structures to reflect decreased demand
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Knowing your risk and medications can help improve your BP
Dr Geetha Philips says understanding your risk for hypertension and taking effective measures to stay healthy goes a long way in controlling hypertension. She also explains various antihypertensive medications
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Coronavirus: First life-saving drug found in dexamethasone
A steroid that's commonly available, dexamethasone is the first drug shown to help save severely ill coronavirus patients, according to scientists in Britain
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Homeopathy to fight the coronavirus? Think again
Homeopathy medicines such as Arsenicum album 30 and Camphora 1M are being mass distributed as 'preventives' for Covid-19. However, experts say, without enough evidence to support the claim, it is irresponsible to distribute or consume them
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EXPLAINED: What's happening at the India-China border?
Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in a clash along the disputed India-China border, the first such episode in decades. What is the 'Line of Actual Control', and why did tensions escalate? Find out here
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India-China feuds over the past fifty years
As tensions along the border take a serious turn, a look at the countries' history over the past decades
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Why India needs to test even more people
Despite the increase in daily number of Covid-19 tests, higher positivity rates in certain cities point to the need for a more inclusive approach
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Intra-city mobility will evolve as a service: Bounce CEO
Just like India's mobile phone revolution, which leapfrogged past landlines and laptops, transport has a chance to jump to a shared-service model in the country, says Vivekananda HR, CEO of the bike-rental startup
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How Delhivery kept on trucking through the lockdown
The Gurugram-headquartered logistics company posted Rs 1,642 crore revenue in the March-ended fiscal 2019, and unaudited numbers for the 2020 fiscal shows a 68 percent jump—to Rs 2,760 crore