NEW DELHI: Four Indian cities, New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, witnessed a significant drop in their rankings on the global smart cities list which was led by Singapore. The Institute for Management Development (IMD), in collaboration with the University of Singapore to Technology and Design (SUTD), has released the …
Read More »India crosses 60 million mark for Covid-19 testing
India crossed the 60 million mark for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) tests on Wednesday, as 11,36,613 tests were conducted in a single day. It has taken the country almost eight months to conduct 6,05,65,728 Covid-19 tests. The first Covid-19 swab sample in India was tested on January 23 at the National …
Read More »Express Investigation Part 4: Foreign Security, Niti CEO Listed; Facebook bans Zhenhua data
Written by Kaunain Sheriff M, Jay Mazoomdaar, P Vaidyanathan Iyer | New Delhi | Updated: September 17, 2020 2:02:55 pm Policymakers such as NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, academic historian Romila Thapar, and political psychologist Ashish Nandy, are also monitored by Zhenhua Data, a firm that has ties to the …
Read More »A judicial pardon for US President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa ban, challenged by 169 Indians
US H-1B Visa Ban: The US visa order is frozen until the end of the year for the new H-1B and H-4 visas. (Proceedings) The Donald Trump administration’s move in the United States to reduce the widely used H-1B visas by foreign tech workers survived an initial court challenge. US …
Read More »Modi, Xi Jinping and a six-year battle for psychological high ground
Precisely six years ago, on September 17, 2014, Ahmedabad and New Delhi were abuzz with the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, the folk singer Peng Liyuan. Television channels played an extended video loop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi sitting on a swing with Xi on the …
Read More »IPL 2020: how an Olympic sprinter is helping KKR be faster – cricket
Acceleration, says Chris Donaldson, is a potential game changer in cricket. And lest you begin to think you’re dealing with an Olympic sprinter shifting the conversation into his area of strength, Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) new strength and conditioning coach offers an explanation. Read also | Can be a finalist …
Read More »Government Establishes Group Under Cyber Security Chief To Investigate China Watching, Will Report In 30 Days
Written by Manoj CG, Liz Mathew, Shubhajit Roy | New Delhi | Updated: September 17, 2020 6:59:34 am The “targets”, as the ongoing investigation has revealed, include President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, key opposition leaders, and men and women from a variety of disciplines, political, legislative, scientific …
Read More »Explained: Why China collects data from India
Written by P Vaidyanathan Iyer, Jay Mazoomdaar | New Delhi | Updated: September 17, 2020 6:54:16 am The Indian Express attempts to frame the context given the prevailing situation on the India-China border, the scale and legality of the operations, the technology involved and the possibilities of end use, given …
Read More »Covid-19: what you need to know today
How seriously do you take Dr. Li-Meng Yan? And how seriously does the article Unusual Features of the Sars-CoV2 Genome Suggesting a Sophisticated Laboratory Modification rather than a Natural Evolution and Delineation of its Probable Synthetic Pathway, published by her and her co-authors, under the auspices of the Rule of …
Read More »Flipkart can accelerate the IPO plan until 2021
Bangalore: Flipkart, India’s most valuable consumer internet startup, could go public next year, thanks to the rapid digital transformation in the country, which has been further accelerated by the covid-19 pandemic, a person familiar with it said. with the development. Flipkart would seek a listing abroad, either in the US, …
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