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Meet new CEC Om Prakash Rawat, the man who is referee of fair play

Those who have worked with Rawat, however, say that he was never close to any political party during his stints in the civil services, both at the state-level and the Centre

Enemy is in retreat: Technology is starting to lose its war on journalism

Facebook's announcement is an admission that the company can't completely replace professional output with user-generated content

Sequoia's Scorecard

Here's a snapshot of the funds raised, its key investments and exits in India

PE-backed CarTrade to acquire Shriram Automall for Rs 1.56 billion

STFC will sell 16,630,435 equity shares of SAMIL, with a face value of Rs 10 each, at Rs 94.03 per share

Here's why top angel investors take a back seat on investing in start-ups

Deal volumes fell 50 per cent and deal value by 33 per cent, according to an early estimate by VCCEdge

Musk's Tesla salary tied to performance with no guarantee compensation

Tesla said its market capitalisation must increase to $100 billion for the first tranche to be vested and must continue to increase in additional $50 billion increments

Facebook says it can't guarantee social media is good for democracy

Facebook addressed social media's role in democracy in blog posts from a Harvard University professor, Cass Sunstein

Will ex-Maruti Suzuki MD Jagdish Khattar's Carnation Auto bloom again?

Former Maruti managing director Jagdish Khattar's first entrepreneurial venture is under corporate insolvency proceedings. A look at what went wrong

How Pravin Togadia escaped is a matter that needs significant investigation

VHP supporters used to flaunt their connections with the Gujarat government and offer their services to investors in Gujarat for a small fee

Supreme Court Judge Gogoi, next in line to be Chief Justice of India

The senior judge has put 'discharging a debt to the nation' above the prospect of being next in line as Chief Justice of India

'Twice' girl group agency now Korea's second-biggest K-pop stock

A Stray Kids album - which was a compilation of songs performed during the competition - placed second on Billboard's World Album chart for the week of Jan 20

Rivals Jio, Airtel bulk up for data war albeit with contrasting strategies

The recognition that content - video in particular - will be the next big thing in the telecom wars requires no rocket science

As sugar-crushing season reaches peak, producers pay the price of reform

Govt-controlled cane prices remain a challenge as the sugar-crushing season gets into full swing

Cane price control: Sugar producers pay the price of reform

Government-controlled cane prices remain a challenge as the sugar-crushing season gets into full swing

Foreign funds account for 60% of PE investments in realty in 2017

Arya said both offshore and domestic investors are investing in the office market

Alibaba's AI outguns humans in Stanford University reading test

Its natural-language processing AI scored higher than humans; Alibaba says it's the first time a machine outperformed people

Modi's Make in India suffers as railway, steel ministries at loggerheads

The railway and steel ministries are at loggerheads over a Rs 20-bn global tender for rails as part of the national transporter's accelerated track replacement programme

Last-minute North Korean visit sends Olympics planners scrambling

North Korea announced its participation on Tuesday after the first inter-Korean talks in two years

MLA & Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani is force majeure for the marginalised

Taking pot shots at the prime minister is part and parcel of Mevani's reputation as a rising star in national politics

Mahindra Satyam reaches settlement with SEC