UpFront
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Despite chip shortage, chip innovation is booming
Even as a chip shortage is causing trouble for all sorts of industries, the semiconductor field is entering a surprising new era of creativity, from industry giants to innovative startups seeing a spike in funding from venture capitalists that traditionally avoided chipmakers
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Why exams face a litmus test in Covid-19 times
The pandemic-triggered disruption in the traditional—and limited—system of examinations can open up more relevant ways to assess students
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Covid-19 shifts to rural India: 533 of India's 700 districts report over 10% positivity rate
A look at the ten worst-affected states, and ten districts with the highest positivity rate in each of these states, with some of them reporting a positivity rate as high as 47 percent
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JSW Energy switches to the renewable route
Sajjan Jindal-owned company plans to increase portfolio of renewable resources, raises $707 million via debut green bond issuance
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Steven Levy: Why Alphabet is more conventional than Google ever was
Steven Levy has updated his book 'In the Plex' and now takes a look at how Google has changed over the last decade. In the middle of the decade, Larry Page decided to call the company Alphabet. Alpha meant Google and Bet means the new bets or the moonshine projects it will undertake. Levy believes this structure has made it tougher for these bets like the fibre optics business to succeed on their own and a lot of them have eventually failed. He says Google has become something the founders never wanted to be—Conventional
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Novavax reports more delays for its Covid-19 vaccine
The delays are the latest setback for the little-known Maryland company, which was granted up to $1.6 billion from the U.S. federal government last year and whose product has shown robust results in clinical trials
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Covid-19 desperation is spreading across India
The desperation that engulfed New Delhi, India's capital, over the past few weeks is now spreading across the country, hitting states and rural areas with many fewer resources
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How CashKaro got its payback from cashbacks (and some cash burn)
A business model built around online product and price discovery with the user promise of hard cash in the bank has helped CashKaro step on the gas in the pandemic year—and, in the bargain, build some serious street cred
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Global cases are falling, but virus surging in countries that had kept it under control
Wealthy nations well stocked with Covid-19 vaccines are gaining control of the virus while it continues to run rampant in other parts of the world, pummelling India and flaring in Southeast Asian countries that had been fending it off
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China's 'long-term time bomb': Falling births drive slow population growth
China's population is growing at its slowest pace since the 1960s, with falling births and a greying workforce presenting the Communist Party with one of its gravest social and economic challenges
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What is mucormycosis, or Black Fungus?
Amid the second wave of coronavirus, cases of mucormycosis or Black Fungus, a rare life-threatening infection are being reported among Covid-19 patients