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Polygon's $450-mn funding: Is it Flipkart moment for blockchain in India?

The Indian blockchain start-up's massive funding round has many implications for Web3 companies and VCs in the crypto arena

Drone mapping: One in six villages covered in India, shows data

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra account for nearly 80 per cent of the 108,444 villages where drone surveys have been conducted

Gulf healthcare market saturated; opportunity lies in India: Azad Moopen

Azad Moopen in an interview said "We have already reached 27% of our YTD Ebitda from India, and we aim to gradually bring it up to 35-40% as we move forward"

Chitra Ramkrishna's fall from grace: 'Queen of bourses' to Rs 3-cr penalty

Ramkrishna was the third woman to head an exchange in the Asia-Pacific region after Sri Lanka's Colombo Stock Exchange and China's Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Sole searching: Preference for smart casual footwear may outlast pandemic

As some things - like office attire and formal shoes - were pushed to the back of closets, stuff that spelled comfort quickly took their place

LIC appears to be ill-equipped to handle new dynamics of insurance market

LIC identifies the problems well in its DRHP but what the markets will watch is how nimble it is with the solutions

Deflating outlook: Households must prepare for hefty rise in LPG prices

Urban households will shortly feel the pinch of rising prices

The treacherous labour statistics

Employment did not exp­and to absorb the unemplo­yed in January. On the contr­ary, it shrank by 3.3 million

Large deals investments propel PE/VC investments to $4.5 bn in Jan: Report

Thirteen large deals of over USD 100 million each and heightened focus on startups helped the Indian venture investing ecosystem post a 180 per cent increase in the overall activity in January

Women execs earn Rs 85 for every Rs 100 earned by men: IIMA study

Senior women executives earn an average of Rs 85 for every Rs 100 earned by their male counterparts, a study on gender balance in top organisations found

India's banking story still evolving

Banks have started seeing signs of growth in credit. Retail loans still remain the growth driver but money has also started flowing to the corporate sector

Statsguru: Six charts explain India's uneven economic recovery

A key reason for lower than expected inflation projections could be weak demand

Satellite broadband: RIL's entry could mark start of another telecom battle

Reliance could also build a constellation from scratch as Google is doing but that would be time-consuming. Plus, the competition has already put up large numbers of satellites in space

From hiring to managing attrition, how tech is tackling knotty HR problems

As the churn deepens in India's IT sector, firms big and small are worried about rising hiring costs and fast attrition across most engineering based roles

How Tata Steel's bid for ailing NINL fits in with the major's strategy

On January 31 - the eve of the Union Budget - Tata Steel Long Products, a subsidiary of Tata Steel, was declared the winning bidder for a 93.71 per cent stake in Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited

Railways on divergent tracks: Gap between forecasts and reality is widening

The gap between forecasts and reality is widening for India's largest public-sector operator

Can battery swapping power EVs for the long term in a cost-effective way?

Batteries can be charged away from swapping points, allowing more freedom in setting up swap facilities

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-14

Both Kalpana and I saw quite a bit of two young faculty members: Geoff Harcourt (the friendly Australian) and Ajit Singh, an astute Marxist academic

Bill Gates writes book on how to make Covid-19 the last pandemic

The Gates Foundation has spent more than $2 billion helping fund the global response to the Covid-19 outbreak

New JNU V-C Santishree D Pandit has travelled a long way ideologically

On the JNU campus, Congress sympathisers were seen as social deviants