UpFront
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Saudi Arabia embraces western sports to rehabilitate global image
Saudi Arabia made sports a priority in 2016, but the push comes with complications. Western businesses have faced boycotts amid accusations that they are aiding a public relations initiative from an oppressive Saudi government
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Indian engineer helps NASA find Chandrayaan-2 moon lander crash site
Shanmuga Subramanian, an Indian computer programmer and mechanical engineer who scoured the lunar surface in his spare time, reported his findings to NASA scientists, who confirmed that the debris he saw were of the ISRO Vikram lander
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Amazon Web Services opens quantum computing centre, unveils new services
The cloud computing services provider has also opened a solutions lab to help customers experiment with the latest in quantum computing
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IndiGo flies into turbulence
India's largest airline has been directed to ground an old aircraft every time it inducts a new one into its fleet
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Online trading and the Karvy effect
Elaborate workarounds are being designed to safeguarding authority over stocks traded online
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Ayodhya sees exponential rise in property prices after SC verdict
Unfavoured for years due to the dispute, areas in and around the proposed Ram Mandir have now multiplied in value; experts caution that haphazard development to keep up with demand could lead to serious infrastructure issues in the long run
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Accel India raises $550 million fund, its largest ever
The corpus will give the firm, which was an early investor in companies like Flipkart and Swiggy, significant heft to participate in follow-ons
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IKEA goes small in Mumbai
Swedish furniture giant plans pop-ups and smaller stores in the island city, keeping its compact flat sizes in mind
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In Prince Andrew scandal, Prince Charles emerges as monarch-in-waiting
The 71-year-old Prince Charles has been moving aggressively to assert his control, most conspicuously in trying to mop up the recent scandal that engulfed his younger brother, Prince Andrew, about his friendship with disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
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How internet companies are preparing to fight the 'Deepfake' future
For companies like Google, finding the tools to spot deepfakes has gained urgency. If someone wants to spread a fake video far and wide, Google's YouTube or Facebook's social media platforms would be great places to do it
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Art Basel Miami, where big money meets bigger money
As the global art world prepares to descend on Miami next week, a guide to the highlights of what's on display