UpFront
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Inside the White House-Facebook rift over vaccine misinformation
Many Americans who refused to get vaccinated had cited false stories they read on Facebook, including theories that the shots could lead to infertility, stillborn babies and autism
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In Lionel Messi's move, a dim portrait of modern soccer
Messi's transfer to Paris St.-Germain highlights how even the best player of his generation was not able to resist the economic forces that carry the game along
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London tops the list of world's best cities for students in 2021
While London tops the charts, Boston, US, ranks at 9 - a spot it shares with Montreal and Paris. In terms of the best university, a different study ranks MIT as world no 1, and colleges and universities in the US and UK took most of the top 10 rankings
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Has the NFT bubble already burst?
Non-fungible tokens shot to popularity earlier this year with headline-grabbing, multi-million-dollar sales of digital-only artworks. Globally, sales and token values have since fallen, while in India, NFT usage is slowly catching up. How much of it is hype and how much is here to stay?
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Climate change is a 'hammer hitting us on the head,' developing nations say
A new UN report suggests that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide had not been this high in at least 2 million years, and the past decade is likely the hottest the planet has been in 125,000 years
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Text memes are taking over Instagram
The trend has transformed Instagram, the photo- and video-based app owned by Facebook, into a network of microblogs and a destination for written expression
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India houses 40 World heritage sites on UNESCO's list, Italy leads with 57
China, Germany, Spain, and France among the other countries with highest number of world heritage sites
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A hotter future is certain. But how hot is up to us
Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years, though there is still a short window to prevent the most harrowing future, a major new United Nations scientific report has concluded
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What vaccine supply tells us about international trade
His work tracking the Donald Trump's trade war was invaluable, making him the go-to guy for current development in trade policies. Now, Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics has a highly informative new paper on the vaccine supply chain
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Inside Mike Cannon-Brookes's world of Atlassian and the future of work
The Australian company offers software products that make it easier for teams across business functions to collaborate on 'a single pane of glass'. Covid-19 has made it even more relevant, and India is its fastest-growing talent hub
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National Handloom Day: 68 percent of weavers earn less than Rs 5,000 a month
There are 31.45 lakh handloom weaver households in the country and while there are several public welfare schemes available to provide a social safety net to help with training, upskilling, health, getting a market for their products, health insurance, and more, awareness is stunningly low