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Lok Sabha elections: How an app has helped thousands get voter cards

Engineer Khalid Saifullah put to use data in the public domain to identify disenfranchised individuals and created the Missing Voters app.

Emotion trumps reason

Apart from the obvious risks, the design lens seems too underpowered to bring an election into its focus

'Student of the Year 2' has all the trappings of a Karan Johar cliche

Johar's film universe is at least consistent in its glamour quotient and music that makes its way to Indian weddings

CHESS #1352

Magnus Carlsen heads the 10-player field, with a prize fund of $150,000

Spending the weekend dancing to tunes of indie music on a private island

Tycoons, listen up. James Tarmy has a list of perfect private islands for long-term getaways

With Gandhi at its heart, India returns to the Venice Biennale after 8 yrs

This is the second time that the biennale is seeing an official India Pavilion, with works of seven artists featuring in a group exhibition, writes Veenu Sandhu

Ageism in sports

Every Indian movie with a sports theme follows the same rah-rah template of the underdog climbing to the top despite numerous obstacles

The revival of Grover Zampa

The company had gone into a bit of a slump from around 2008-09 but has crafted a remarkable comeback in these last few years

The collections of late B D Garga are being curated into a digital archive

Born in Punjab in 1924, Garga had a fascination for images, first still and later moving

'Dissent on Aadhaar' is essential reading for believers and sceptics alike

A collection of 15 well-argued essays is essential reading for believers and sceptics alike, says Vipul Mudgal

These men are steering relief, rescue operations in Cyclone Fani-hit Odisha

Dillip Satapathy meets the two men who took up the herculean task of shifting people

How the Atishi-Gautam Gambhir pamphlet row is raging on social media

The scurrilous pamphlet is peppered with sexist barbs aimed at Atishi and also refers to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia pejoratively

The end of GoT

It will be heartbreaking if Game of Thrones ends with a whimper trying to sound like a bang

Kerala, the most educated state, tops jobless charts as expats head home

A combination of factors sent the West Asian economies into a tailspin, and by extension Kerala's. Nikita Puri assesses the change afoot in the state

How GSK uses data analytics to boost its consumer healthcare products

The analytics tool has been created to capture the data and send out alerts to partner brands about an impending weather episode, say for instance 'a cold and flu' season for GSK

We'll focus on supporting enterprises: Anant Maheshwari of Microsoft India

In a Q&A, the President of Microsoft India dwells on his company's plans to partner with the country's MSME sector

Call to action

How India's new philanthropic titans can tackle challenges while giving it back

Smartphone users expect consistent high speed from 5G networks: Report

For the study, quantitative data was collected from 22 countries

Spending on BPO is forecast to achieve the highest growth in 2019: Gartner

In the ongoing year, end-user spending on IT services in India will represent 59 per cent of total end-user spending on IT services in emerging Asia/Pacific

Volkswagen launch campaign in late 1950s is my favourite one: Rajeev Raja

That campaign sold more Volkswagens than possibly any other campaign, says Founder & Soundsmith BrandMusiq