Despite the adverse weather conditions, thousands flocked Houston’s NRG Stadium to see and hear Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, yesterday (Sept. 22).
Just 15 minutes into our conversation, Devi Shetty, one of India’s most renowned cardiac surgeons, pulls out his iPhone with the excitement of a teenager. The 66-year-old spends the next several minutes demonstrating how he uses audio commands on his device—sending a test SMS to his wife, making a call to his daughter—on a daily basis.
This is the second in a series of Q&As tracing the journeys of startups that have become household names in India.
Being an engineer at an Indian information technology (IT) company today is far removed from what it used to be only five years ago.
Electronic City, an IT hub on the outskirts of Bengaluru, houses the massive campuses of some of India’s largest outsourcing companies and inevitably bustles with young techies. As a tech journalist, I frequently visited the area to meet up company spokespersons, sources, and even friends.
ByteDance has finally woken up to India’s security concerns after the country’s law enforcement began to bite.
This is the first in a series of Q&As tracing the journeys of startups that have become household names in India.
Cricket is not a popular sport in the US. The country doesn’t have a team participating in the ongoing cricket world cup, and viewership for the sport is far lower there than for baseball, American football, and basketball.
Nearly a decade after it launched operations in India and five years after its maiden acquisition here, Facebook has for the first time turned investor for a young startup in the country.
Zomato has hit a milestone in the Indian food-delivery sector by successfully pilot-testing drone-delivery.
Cyber hackers attacked parts of the official website of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today (May 30) while he was being formally sworn in as the 15th prime minister of India.
Nearly 80% of adolescent Indian girls are aware of sanitary napkins, but only 30% have access to them.
HBO’s wildly popular epic fantasy show Game of Thrones (GoT) has found fans across the over 170 countries where it airs. In many of these places, the show is dubbed in local languages for non-English speaking viewers.
If it wasn’t already dealing with enough, India’s oldest private airline is now running on an empty cockpit.
Like elsewhere on the web, Game of Thrones is popular even on the question-and-answer portal Quora.
The ongoing parliamentary elections in India are noticeably different from any other till now.
It’s not just Donald Trump. Indian government bodies and businesses are tripping over Game of Thrones (GoT), too.
India’s richest man has picked a side in the ongoing parliamentary elections—and it’s not the one that was widely expected.
After weeks of speculation and legal tussle, India appears to have banned the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok.
One of the world’s most popular television shows is nearing its end. Yet, many Indians are still furiously searching the web for the maiden episode, which aired over eight years ago.
Political history is being made in India right now, but all that Indians on the internet care about is cricket.
History’s biggest elections are yet another proof that we live in a “man’s world.”
The stage is set to ring in the world’s biggest election.
Indians are beginning to feel the pinch as temperatures soar across the country.
