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Leadership hacks from Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and more: Podcast with David Rubenstein
Co-founder of one of the world's largest private equity firms, The Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein joins us on this episode to divulge leadership secrets from some of the world's most prominent business leaders, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey and more, as expounded in his book 'How to Lead'
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Why did AstraZeneca pause their Covid-19 vaccine trial?
AstraZeneca, has announced that it has "voluntarily paused" a randomised clinical trial of its vaccine. The announcement comes after volunteers developed an unexplained illness after taking the vaccine
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Silver Lake to invest Rs 7,500 crore in Reliance Retail
Chairman Mukesh Ambani had announced at the annual general meeting that the company was in talks for a stake sale in Reliance Retail
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Why calls to boycott 'Mulan' over China concerns are growing
Several social media users noticed that in the film's credits, Disney thanked eight government entities in Xinjiang, a region in China's far west that is home to the Uighurs. The predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic minority have lived for years under increasingly expansive surveillance and repression in the region
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'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' Is set to end in 2021
Kim Kardashian West alerted fans in an Instagram post that her family will "say goodbye" to the popular reality show after 20 seasons
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Know about Silver Lake, which will invest Rs7,500 cr in Reliance Retail
A global leader in technology investing, Silver Lake has stake in companies such as Airbnb, Alibaba Group and Ant Financial
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'NLP is not hypnosis, has incomparable results': Pamela 'Puja' Kirpalani
The practice of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a pseudoscientific method of self-development, has large potential but is yet to strike it big in India as people are still understanding what it means, says the NLP entrepreneur
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International Literacy Day: India's literacy rate showcases inequalities
The male literacy rate in India is 14.4% higher than that for females; that in urban areas is 15.2% higher than in rural regions. Take a look at this snapshot
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China: Xi Jinping's post-virus economic strategy looks inward
The Chinese leader's latest approach calls for a more robust domestic economy to insulate growth from tensions with the United States
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World Literacy Day: Kerala tops India list, AP comes in last
In terms of literacy rates for those aged 7 or more, here are the top 5 and bottom 5 states in India
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Why Djokovic's drama is often self-inflicted
Novak Djokovic, the elastic winner of 17 Grand Slam singles titles, remains a work very much in progress: capable of charm, magnanimity and deep reflection but also capable of turning too much of what he touches into ash