UpFront
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This is a chance to really bring tech into processes: NTT India exec
Organisations can become more flexible by infusing cutting-edge technologies into their processes. In addition to remote working, companies can also increase automation, says Sharad Sanghi, CEO — Global Data Centres and Cloud Infrastructure (India) at NTT Ltd
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Of antibodies and anti-bias
Testing becomes the biggest challenge amid mass movement and community transmission
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Warriors on the frontline
How doctors and nurses in hospitals along with assorted health activists and workers on the outside are taking on the Covid-19 crisis head-on and saving lives against all odds
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How Covid-19 is affecting student placements
As top companies defer and revoke job offers, graduating classes are finding their careers up in the air; IITs and business schools, meanwhile, are working hard to help find placements, moving the process online
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Oil's manic fall has nothing for the Indian consumer
Even as US oil prices for May delivery tumbled, India recorded 36 days of no change in petrol and diesel prices
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Trump halts US immigration: What this means for you
A formal order temporarily barring the provision of new green cards and work visas could come as early as the next few days
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EXPLAINED: How an oil barrel became worth less than nothing
The price of the main US oil bench mark fell to end the day about $30 below zero, negative for the first time ever . Such an eye-popping slide is the result of a quirk in the oil market, but it underscores the industry's disarray as the coronavirus pandemic decimates the world economy
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BMW India CEO Rudratej Singh passes away at 46
The company also lost Mihir Dayal, their head of sales, to cancer earlier this month. Singh's demise comes at a crucial juncture for the auto maker
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Clampdown to Covid-19 lockdown: Kashmir has a lesson for the world
Kashmiri residents have learned, the hard way, how to manage life indoors. Local businesses, however, have been battered twice over, even as they were just emerging from a seven-month shutdown. "It's like playing with fire every time you invest in the business," a handloom merchant says
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'Covid-19 has nudged companies towards the cloud': Juniper Networks India MD
Customers who are cloud native or cloud-centric can run their business continuity plans more swiftly than those who are limited to their own infrastructure, says Sajan Paul, managing director and country manager, India and SAARC at Juniper Networks
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Are face masks the new condoms?
If people with no symptoms are spreading the coronavirus, as some studies suggest, it may be time to give face masks the kind of advertising and promotion that support condoms as lifesavers, especially in the HIV context