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Brazil's Covid-19 crisis is a warning to the whole world, scientists say
No other nation that experienced such a major outbreak is still grappling with record-setting death tolls and a health care system on the brink of collapse
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Razorpay's 'full stack' ambition
The fintech unicorn has gone beyond payments into neobanking and facilitating loans and insurance. The dream is to become the only financial platform a business will ever need
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EXPLAINER: What is vaccine efficacy and what does it mean?
As Covaxin shows vaccine efficacy of 81 percent, a look at what efficacy means, how it is calculated, the difference between efficacy and efficiency, and more
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Krishna Ella: How a farmer's son gave India its first successful indigenous Covid-19 vaccine
As Bharat Biotech's Covaxin shows an interim efficacy of 81 percent, Forbes India traces the career of the founder, whose entrepreneurial journey has seen a successful track record of developing vaccines in India for the world
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Shiv Shivakumar: How to deal with the ten most important career dilemmas
All of us go through career dilemmas at some point. Shivakumar discusses the top ten dilemmas that we may experience and backs them with research and data to analyse how we can make better career moves. In his book, 'The Right Choice', he says India produces nearly half a million MBAs every year but less than 5 percent of an IIM batch makes it to the CEO's office, thus explaining that merely possessing a degree from a prestigious institute does not guarantee a ticket to the corner office. He discusses the importance of career moves, board membership and CEO's dilemmas
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Plan to ditch the mask after vaccination? Not so fast
While all of the Covid-19 vaccines are spectacularly good at shielding people from severe illness and death, scientists do not know whether vaccinated people spread the virus to those who are unvaccinated
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Amazon quietly tweaks logo some say resembled Hitler's moustache
The much-mocked app icon, with a smile-shaped arrow beneath what looked like a toothbrush-style moustache, was unveiled in January
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India's first woman airline CEO has ambitious goals. Can she take off?
The first woman pilot hired by Air India, Harpreet A De Singh is now charged with turning around the fortunes of its subsidiary Alliance Air
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Uttarakhand's first women's commando force set to hit the ground running
22 women police officers will join counterparts in three other states to be part of an elite force
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Vaccine passports, Covid-19's next political flashpoint
While such passports are still hypothetical in most places, Israel became the first to roll out its own last week, capitalising on its high vaccination rate
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China charges ahead with a national digital currency
The effort is one of several by central banks around the world to try new forms of digital money that can move faster and give even the most disadvantaged people access to online financial tools