Author Richard Watson examines emerging patterns and developments and society, politics, science and technology, media and entertainment, and other industries.
As Fahadh Faasil turns 39 on August 8, Subhash K Jha looks back at his favourite films featuring the brilliant actor.
The deal will give Infosys higher-end consulting capabilities and enable it to grow in a non-linear fashion. It will also enable Infosys to acquire some global names as clients and improve the Indian major's footprints in Europe at a time when Indian firms need to reduce their dependence on the US market.
Sandeep Modi's Chumbak spins a magical web around you, says Prasanna D Zore.
The second edition of the Microsoft Corporate Challenge began in Kochi on Friday with 34 teams from across India, representing various companies, including Infosys, Microsoft, Reliance Capital and Pepsi Foods, participating in the three-day event.
Sardar Udham sets a great standard which, Utkarsh Mishra believes, would be emulated by other film-makers who want to make movies of this genre.
Shekhar Chakravarty has developed and patented Curvo -- world's first non-linear ropeway system.
The Bengaluru-based firm competes with US rival Uber whose lukewarm IPO last year has contributed to the lag in valuation trend among the unicorns across the Indian start-up ecosystem.
A new linear GRE replaces old adaptive GRE. Find out what this means for you.
'In the lockdown, family viewing became even more important.' 'Kids saw adult content and adults saw a lot of kids content.' 'The audience is no longer just the housewife, but the whole family.'
Mentoring is intended to influence you from within, as a person. Mentoring is not about supervising you for a task or coaching you short term for a pending project.
Four months after the launch of Futures trading in polymers in India, NCDEX seems to have met with little success. The daily average volumes in PVC have been ruling around Rs 50-60 lakh
'But it's not something I am interested in.'
Every day a Party unfolds on social media where armchair activists, politically charged influencers, trend pundits, gyaan givers and troll armies change the world in their heads but remain clueless about the nation's grassroots reality, feels Sukanya Verma.
This may mean that the Rupee would be readily accepted as an international currency and, as a further fallout, Indians would be highly valued and widely recognised.
The argument that the pandemic has given a boost to streaming video is fallacious. Only three OTTs saw a rise in viewership; the others fell.
The reversal of Trump's policy with regard to Iran, like the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, may not be a matter of just turning the clock back, but one of patient negotiations, with uncertain consequences in the post-COVID-19 world, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The P-75 index, a subset of BSE 500 stocks, has severely underperformed the broader market across time horizons
'As the world goes digital, we cannot afford to be left behind.'
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named two minor planets after two girls from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
The Asus TUF FX 504 is durable and a performer, but lacks certain essentials, says Rahul Saha
"You will have a lot of elephants and a lot of mice and nothing mid-sized."
'I hope that the incoming Biden-Harris Administration works with India to address some of the most profound geopolitical transboundary challenges.'
Three generations of the Akkinenis - Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR), his son Akkineni Nagarjuna, and his grandson Naga Chaitanya-- are acting in Manam.
'Not one single, but multiple trials are there to quote. However, these will be published as scientific manuscripts.' 'This includes integrative as well as standalone approaches in Covid mitigation.'
'Unless the State is a welfare State, unless the State has more welfare measures, it will not be able to deal with these kind of sudden situations.'
India's curve, yet to flatten vis-a-vis countries with similar or more conservative plans to ease restrictions, still points to 'exponential growth', despite India having tested much fewer people.
With a massive 108 megapixel camera and bezel-less wrap around display, Xiaomi's Mi Mix Alpha comes in a protective glass body that may tempt you to own it. But is it worth the price?
'Tiger reserves were created to protect areas from developmental activities.' 'If we go ahead with these projects, then it is a complete mockery of our institutions and our laws, it is against everything we have stood for, our Forest Conservation Act, our Wildlife Biodiversity Act.'
The Yamaha YZF R15 v3.0 has a 155 cc single cylinder, liquid-cooled engine in place of the older 149 cc engine.
RESOURCESAT-2A, intended for resource monitoring, is a follow-on mission to RESOURCESAT-1 and RESOURCESAT-2, launched in 2003 and 2011 respectively. It is intended to continue the remote sensing data services to global users provided by RESOURCESAT-1 and 2.
If you think the film is gutsy, you are simply being blind to the truth that the whole men-are-worthless slant is saleable right now, argues Sreehari Nair.
