After weeks of attempting to hang onto power in key Tata Group companies, Cyrus Mistry appears to be throwing in the towel.
Here’s a year-end accolade for the world’s largest democracy and, some say, rising global superpower: Indians are the most ignorant people on the planet.
Even before Saurabh Arora got his online healthcare platform off the ground, the former Facebook data scientist had an inkling of what Indians might want to ask doctors—especially if they could send questions via a smartphone app and in complete privacy.
In the seven weeks since Cyrus Mistry was unceremoniously booted as chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, the boardroom battle between the former boss man and his erstwhile employer has generated much heat and sound. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Jayalalithaa Jayaraman, a movie star who transformed into one of the most powerful politicians in southern India, passed away late on Dec. 5. She was 68, serving her sixth term as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
US president-elect Donald Trump claims his deal-making chops are legendary. In 1987, he even wrote Trump: The Art of the Deal, which turned out to be a bestseller, even though his ability to rake in the big bucks has been critically questioned since.
On Dec. 4, thousands of demonstrators gathered at a stadium to protest against the mistreatment of Myanmar’s Rohingya, a minority Muslim group in the nation’s western state of Rakhine.
Early on Tuesday (Nov. 29), terrorists attacked an Indian Army camp in Nagrota, on the outskirts of Jammu, killing at least seven soldiers. The Nagrota cantonment houses the headquarters of the Indian Army’s XVI Corps, the country’s largest such corps.
Larry Summers isn’t a big fan of big currency. In February, the former US treasury secretary made a strong case against high denomination currency notes, including €500 and $100, arguing that they fuel corruption and crime.
Nearly two weeks later, India is still deeply divided over Narendra Modi’s radical move to pull out the Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes from circulation.
The Narendra Modi government has made its big move against black money.
Yangon, Myanmar
For decades, inside the wood-panelled halls of the Indian Army officers’ messes, one among a handful of subjects prohibited from discussions is politics. The other two are religion and women.
It’s fair to say that Diwali fireworks came a bit early to Bombay House, the 92-year-old headquarters of India’s Tata Group.
Cyrus Mistry has just been replaced by the man he was chosen to replace.
In the early hours of Dec. 03, 1984, some 40 tonnes of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory and blew into the slums surrounding the pesticide facility in Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh (MP).
The Indian Army carried out a series of “surgical strikes” on terrorist bases in Pakistan, across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), on the night of Sept. 28.
The French Rafale fighter aircraft are finally coming to India.
Mallikarjun Sundaram spent much of his childhood traipsing across Tamil Nadu, pulled along by his father’s job in the excise department. Money was tight, so Sundaram, the sixth of seven brothers, had an ordinary schooling at Tamil-medium government institutions in Sivakasi and Madurai. In Class 8, he attended his first English-medium school in Mumbai, where he had moved to in 1983 to live with an elder brother soon after their father’s death. Another tragedy awaited the family.
Nagada, India
On the days when it is calm, the Brahmaputra resembles an impossibly wide silvery sheet of water, rippling mile after mile through the northeast Indian state of Assam. But when it rages, the world’s fourth-largest river by volume of discharge, is a savage horror, swallowing up entire islands, submerging villages, and wreaking havoc along its meandering course.
A senior member of prime minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet has hinted that last year’s online tirade against e-commerce giant Snapdeal wasn’t some spontaneous show of outrage.
Assam, India
On the Brahmaputra, India
