The western world had largely considered India to be a production hub, and also, a good potential geography for clinical trials, and a big market. But in Covid-19 research, Indian companies and government researchers are also researching new drug candidates and potential vaccines, says Prosenjit Datta.
Technology giant Microsoft is in talks with TikTok's parent company ByteDance to buy its US operation.
A new breed of hackers has emerged, whose main aim is not necessarily financial gain but causing disruption
'Unknown' location advertisement spends were nearly 74% higher than the next biggest spender, Uttar Pradesh.
The 39-year-old appeared at Italy's Sanremo festival in March, where he sang a duet with Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic and said he would like to try acting.
Sectors which attracted big-ticket investments were real estate, energy, banking and start-ups
Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has secured regulatory approval for launching its digital payment platform -- WhatApp Pay -- in a phased manner, close to two years after the US-based company's pilot run.
The decision would help provide ease of doing business and also lead to larger FDI inflows contributing to growth of investment, income and employment.
On October 29, WhatsApp announced it was suing NSO Group for selling its software, Pegasus, which has the ability to compromise a device and get access to all of a target's data. Spooked by revelations that activists and journalists were spied upon by using NSO Group's spyware, many have moved to alternative messaging platforms such as Signal and Telegram.
Data processing compliance is the main reason behind the delay. The government, on several occasions, has made it clear that Indian financial data needs to be stored exclusively onshore and if it is processed outside, it needs to be brought back in 24 hours.
Ministry of home affairs and the IT ministry are planning to have a series of discussions with representatives from Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google on issues around national security and the problem of fake news. Asking for decryption keys from WhatsApp to track conversations on the chat app is also part of the agenda.
The California-based company has been facing flak recently after about a dozen people were beaten up based on incendiary messages being spread on the app through large groups.
Home ministry sources say there are fears that international lobbies might have been involved in spying, to create a narrative around Indian governance as well as the economy.
The spyware gained access to a person's phone even if the attacker's WhatsApp call wasn't answered. The calls also often disappeared from call logs, and affected Android, iPhone and Tizen-based phones.
Japan's Olympic delay has upended years of careful planning by organisers and spawned costly headaches for small businesses, hotels and even pro baseball teams, compounding a $12 billion price tag. New dates have yet to be set, leaving sponsors and businesses uncertain and scrambling.
Last week, the country's leading exchange, Zebpay, launched trading in Litecoin, which is the eighth-largest cryptocurrency, following rising demand from Indian investors.
The global chocolate market is expected to grow $98.3 billion in 2016.
Under the current terms agreed with the European Union, the UK is due to leave the bloc by May 22 if the British prime minister's repeatedly-rejected divorce bill clears the House of Commons or crash out without any deal in place by April 12.
The investor has now put together a fund of $3.75 billion to back private companies.
The office will be headed by Twitter executive Peter Greenberger.
The parliamentary committee on IT has recently been in the news for asking global representatives of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to present their views on misuse of social media platforms and its impact on citizens.
'What we are actually missing in India is a platform wherein the government engages with cybersecurity experts, gets them employed and then utilises their capability to deter such attacks.'
About 147 million Indians use their mobile devices to browse through Facebook
'WhatsApp is storing our data on servers which are physically located in another country.' 'We might be having good relations with a particular country at this very moment, where WhatsApp's data servers are located, and in which our data is stored, but tomorrow we might be having bad relations with them, then what is going to happen to that data.'
Rediff.com brings you images of struggle and hope as migrants attempt to reach European countries.
WhatsApp was told to delete data of users who chose to opt out of its policy changes before September 25
This, despite squeeze in start-up funding; $946 mn Bharti Infratel deal is biggest so far this year
Operating systems are increasingly subject to cyberattacks, as many are built around legacy technologies with weaker protocols
Stunning photographs have captured the Perseid meteor shower that has delighted stargazers across the world.
Pressure had been building on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its president, Thomas Bach, with some athletes and sporting bodies angry that a seemingly inevitable decision had taken so long.
Marcus Rashford's penalty and a deflected strike from Mason Mount helped England come from a goal down to overcome top-ranked Belgium 2-1 at Wembley on Sunday and climb above them in their UEFA Nations League group.
The government is also trying to curb child abuse and pornography and such platforms act as catalysts in these cases.
Manchester City's Premier League home match against Arsenal has been postponed because players from the London club have had contact with the owner of Greek side Olympiakos Piraeus, who has contracted the coronavirus. Meanwhile La Liga matches will be played without fans for at least the next two rounds of fixtures to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the Spanish league said.
A new study suggests that people who have strong social media networks and receive multiple friend requests are less likely to die.
The more time teenagers spent on phones and TV, the lower their test scores in math and English tend to be.
That flash of light in the sky followed by thunder can be both mesmerising and scary. Rediff.com presents some amazing pictures of lightning captured by ace lensmen.
Here's your weekly digest of photographs that prove that it's a odd, crazy world out there!
31-year-old Dada Prso remains the bedrock of Croatia's hopes
Rangers kept their Champions League hopes alive with a 2-1 win in the Scottish Premier League.
WhatsApp to foray into digital payments & expand to other markets
