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In the past, too, Indians have lost millions to online fraud like ponzi scams, loans-through-apps, and other such schemes. The year 2022 alone saw 1.39 million cybersecurity incidents being reported, government data show. The country is among the most vulnerable in matters of internet security.

India’s richest billionaires, Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, are leading the country’s energy transition, with nearly $150 billion in green investments over the next few decades. That money is coming, in large part, out of the profits they’ve reaped out of their sales of fossil fuels.Aiming to be the largest …

US e-commerce behemoth Amazon had big dreams for its India business. Since 2013, it has invested more than $6.5 billion, eyeing the top market position in what is one of its fastest-growing overseas markets.“We don’t take these decisions lightly. We are discontinuing this program in a phased manner to take …

The annual winter spike in pollution in Delhi and its neighborhood can be reduced if farmers of nearby states are paid to desist from burning farm stubble, a new study suggests. “An upfront payment can send a costly signal, increasing trust [between farmers and the authorities] that the subsequent conditional …

One significant engine of this growth has been Adani’s closeness to prime minister Narendra Modi, which has raised allegations of cronyism. Adani has won a slew of government contracts in energy and infrastructure. His companies mine coal, produce power, and transmit it. They run ports and airports. They’re setting up …

Unending queues have been a common sight at not only the check-in and security counters of the airport but even its entrance gate. The disorder and confusion have led to many missing their flights and, often, flaring tempers.The gravity of the situation has forced airlines like IndiGo to issue advisories …

For months, Jet Airways, once India’s largest private airline, has been aiming to re-enter Indian skies. But these plans are being hindered by one key obstacle: Jet’s new promoter doesn’t actually own the airline yet. Since it went bankrupt in 2019, Jet has since been owned by its creditors—a group …

India is estimated to have around 150 million children not privileged enough to attend school. But taxing only 10 of the country’s wealthiest persons can help them get them back to classrooms.The country would need up to Rs1.4 lakh crore to bring its out-of-school children back to receiving a quality …

In the Indian matchmaking setup, there is a higher chance of a working woman or one with a plan to nurture a post-marriage career being rendered unmarriable. Unemployed women are more likely to receive interest from matrimonial suitors, a recently published research paper says. “A higher household social status is …

Over the past few years, foreign businesses exiting India have outnumbered those entering it.Since 2018, the number of such companies has constantly risen, with the total coming up to 559, data shared by India’s minister of state for corporate affairs, Rao Inderjit Singh in the parliament, showed. Up to 469 …

Over the past few years, foreign businesses exiting India have outnumbered those entering it.Since 2018, the number of such companies has constantly risen, with the total coming up to 559, data shared by India’s minister of state for corporate affairs, Rao Inderjit Singh in the parliament, showed. Up to 469 …

In its effort to stay engaged with the Taliban, India has invited officials of the Afghanistan government to attend a crash course on its culture, legislation, and business climate.The four-day virtual course, Immersing with Indian Thoughts, began yesterday (March 14). India’s ministry of external affairs has organized the course through …

China has for years been chipping away at Indian territory along the long-contested border between the two countries. India’s mostly anodyne response to each attempt has reflected a state of denial.The root cause of the strained relations between the Asian neighbours is the poorly defined 2,100-mile border, the line of …

Foreigners moving to India settle in the country quite easily—up to 80% of them feel at home in less than a year. On average, expats take 7.4 months “to feel like they belonged” in India, according to an HSBC survey released yesterday (May 8). This is less than the global …

Is Bollywood losing its charm? That’s the question raised by the latest financial results for India’s biggest movie theater chain, PVR-INOX. The company, formed by the merger of the country’s top two multiplex operators earlier this year, reported a loss of $40.7 million for the quarter ended March 31.Hit by …

Amazon is planning to invest nearly $13 billion in India by 2030, it announced today (May 18), focusing on cloud infrastructure. This is the largest-ever investment the Seattle-based company announced in the decade since it began operations in the South Asian market in 2013.Currently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) runs two …

A startup with the first-ever artificial intelligence-powered “behavior engine” for characters in video games just raised $16 million.Canada-based AI startup Artificial Agency announced it has come out of a year in stealth mode and raised $16 million in funding from investors including Radical Ventures and Toyota Ventures. The startup, founded …

My story on rage-bait chefs for The Verge got a shout out in the Quartz weekly brief newsletter

The Set, a new residential property in New York City’s Hudson Yards district, is reconfiguring the Manhattan apartment for the post-covid era. Designed for busy professionals commuting into a New York City office just two to three times a week, The Set is offering leases as short as six months, …

Client: Steelcase It might be time to put hot desking—the popular practice where in-office employees sit at any available workstation instead of an assigned desk—on the back burner.

Remember in-person conferences? It wasn’t so long ago that attendees would fly to far-flung destinations with promises of inspiring conversation, networking, free food and maybe even a good panel or two. Then along came the pandemic and shifted in-person events to Zoom and other digital platforms which felt, well, flat. …

The future for Yemi, a Nigerian former student, was laid out in a contract written in Arabic which she signed in an office in Lagos in June 2019 to enable a recruitment agency bring her to work in Lebanon.

As Hong Kong’s protest movement passed the six-month mark and the year drew to a close, the question of what name to give a movement that began in June 2019 becomes a vexed one for editors and reporters, academics, and commentators.

Boko Haram, poverty and lack of prospects force many Nigerians to flee – especially in the Lake Chad area. Climate change is driving the crisis further.

The soundtrack of this year's Hong Kong protests marks a somber turn from the Umbrella Movement

Americans are fixated with the Republican-Democrat divide. But Republicans are a significantly smaller group.

O'Rourke's whole campaign against Ted Cruz in Texas is about subverting the stereotypes that have polarized America.

More than 60% of undocumented immigrants have been living in the US for 10 years or more.

The rising numbers of people caught at the border are a sign of a bureaucratic crisis, not an immigration "invasion."