The sky-high salaries at Indian startups have come under the lens ever since the sector began unraveling over the past year or so. However, investors and entrepreneurs insist that such large payouts may have their advantage and, in some cases, may even be necessary.
A new discovery in central India is pushing back the timeline for the earliest-known plant life by several million years.
India is trying to get its over-a-billion population online.
Devis Devassy Chiramel has been living in Bahrain for years. His mother has visited him three times. His father? Not even once.
It’s a tough time for foreign workers aiming to live in the US.
There’s a thin line between comic characters and racial caricatures—and actors of color know that all too well.
Some of India’s most prolific and popular comedy writers have scripted a public relations nightmare for themselves.
Facebook says it wants to be absolutely clear: Its data isn’t for the taking by companies that sell your location to law-enforcement agencies.
In trying to be like Uber, the world’s most-valued startup, some Indian firms may be following the example a little too well.
India’s expectant mothers will now be in less of a rush to return to work.
Apple’s newest iPhones have just cost too much to be a big hit in India, and the company hopes reviving a discontinued model can expand its minuscule market share in Asia’s third-largest economy.
For spouses of H-1B workers, one step forward under the Obama administration could become two steps back under president Donald Trump.
Demonetisation has stripped some of India’s wealthiest of their billionaire status.
Indian engineers with an H-1B visa are facing an unexpected conundrum.
India has not been a good mother to its girls—but one small village is trying to make amends to its grandmothers.
While India’s existing transportation infrastructure falls woefully short in the face of rapid urbanisation, the country is looking at futuristic—maybe even unrealistic—options to fix the yawning gap.
A trio of university students is giving Indian startups unprecedented access to Silicon Valley.
Donald Trump’s chief strategist has suggested (inaccurately) that there are “too many” Asian CEOs in Silicon Valley and seems committed to reducing the influence of foreign workers in the United States. That’s the “economics nationalist” in Steve Bannon, as he once described himself. But if you turn the clock back to a year before the November 2016 elections, you’ll find that businessman Bannon’s grand plan for his right-wing online portal, Breitbart News, involved expanding in one of the world’s fastest growing economies—India.
In a recent Economist Intelligence Unit study of internet inclusiveness, India ranked first among 75 countries when it comes to having policies in place to ensure connectivity.
India’s elite love living in a concrete jungle.
In reflecting upon Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s life, his wife Sunayana Dumala raised poignant questions about the country they called home.
Narendra Modi is taking the “great economists” opposing demonetization to task.
To compete with internet companies, Vimpelcom—the world’s sixth largest telco—is hoping to become one.
Indians who considered Trump’s America a safe haven are in for a nasty wake up call. Like Muslims and Jews, Indians are not immune to racist attacks.
