In the last week of April, 17-year-old Ashish Das, a resident of the Kalkaji slum in south Delhi, started showing symptoms of Covid-19. Shortly thereafter, his sister (21) and mother (41) also fell sick. They all got tested on May 2 and received their positive reports on May 3. They decided to isolate themselves at home.
The buzz around 5G in India is growing every day—and so are job opportunities in the domain.
When India’s IT services industry returns to work in a post-pandemic world, it would’ve stepped up its sustainability quotient.
Apple Inc had a great start to 2021 in India.
A Delhi-based firm has managed to break the Chinese monopoly in India’s personal audio equipment space—by leveraging China’s manufacturing prowess.
The work-from-home trend during the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown up unexpected gains for India’s largest IT services firm.
India’s ill-conceived vaccination programme could jeopardise the future of thousands of youth.
When Rajesh Pathak’s wife took their daughter to get tested for Covid-19 at a Gandhinagar hospital on April 1, she saw two plastic-covered dead bodies being moved out of the premises. That day, the government figures listed zero Covid deaths in Gandhinagar. The situation alarmed Pathak, resident editor of a 98-year-old local newspaper Sandesh’s Ahmedabad edition.
The Indian government’s threats to ban international social media apps for not complying with new local guidelines are as damaging to the country as they are for these companies.
In an unexpected move, late evening on March 24, 2020, prime minister Narendra Modi told the world that India would go into an unprecedented nationwide lockdown at midnight to stop the spread of Covid-19. With just around four hours to prepare for the curfew—that was initially supposed to last only 21 days but continued for over 10 weeks—most Indians scrambled to stock up necessities or to rush back to their hometowns.
Tauktae (pronounced Tau’te) means “gecko” in Burmese. Now, how did a cyclone that hit India’s west coast end up with a Burmese name?
Heavy rainfall, thunder, and wind speeds upwards of 100 kilometres per hour have ravaged several western Indian states over the last three days as cyclone Tauktae continues to hit the country. It is the strongest cyclone in the region since the one in 1998, which killed at least 4,000 people.
Aman Trivedi was all set to pursue a master’s degree in international affairs from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin come August. When the Delhi University graduate started applying to schools abroad in September 2020, he never could’ve imagined that India’s Covid-19 crisis would spiral the way that it did.
Each time Apple Inc gets close to success in India, a new challenge throws its plans off track.
After nearly a year of Covid-triggered slump, ride-hailing companies in India had finally started recovering in early 2021. But the onset of the second wave of the pandemic could hit the breaks on recovery.
As hospitals crumble under the pressure of a raging Covid-19 pandemic, several Indians have started flocking to telemedicine and online pharmacies.
India’s technological prowess has come to the fore at a time when the country’s government has struggled to make much of an impact.
Notorious for deal-hunting, the pandemic has made India’s online grocery shopping utility driven.
As the Covid-19 pandemic hit India like a tsunami in April, a mental health helpline in Mumbai fielded between 80 to 100 calls a day from people who were experiencing anxiety and stress related to work, exams, and fear of contracting the virus.
India has administered over 158 million Covid-19 vaccine doses as of May 4, in a country of 1.4 billion people. With vaccination supplies dwindling, and delivery rates dropping however, the government’s goal to vaccinate 300 million Indians by August 2021 cannot possibly be realized.
India’s clamour for help on the internet has been relentless.
As India’s Covid-19 crisis becomes insurmountable, the Narendra Modi government has been widely criticised for trying to filter what the world hears about the worst pandemic outbreak anywhere on the planet.
India’s hapless situation has US senators urging the American government to act.
Zomato is finally ready to deliver on its IPO promises—starting with laying its financials bare.
