UpFront
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PM Modi among world's most admired people in 2021
A look at the most admired Indian men and women of the year, and the top 5 most admired in the world
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Storyboard18: How Microsoft is driving accessibility for persons with disabilities
The inequitable impact of the pandemic has made decreasing the gap in societal inclusion for people with disabilities more critical. Microsoft's chief marketing officer Hitu Chawla shares the global software major's efforts to reduce the 'disability divide'. A game-changing idea for 2022
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Pfizer's Covid-19 pill works
The pharmaceutical giant which made the Covid-19 vaccine last year claims that its pill was able to stave off severe disease in a clinical trial and may be effective against the new omicron variant of the coronavirus
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Indian space startups ready for take off in 2022
A handful of private space startups have come tantalisingly close to getting their products off the ground. The government's clear intent and support are welcome, but they also need more money to succeed
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SpaceX ignored sexual harassment, former interns say
Three women who interned at the Elon Musk-led space tech company claim they were harassed by other interns and men in senior positions
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Storyboard18: Do you need a degree or just YouTube to be a marketer today?
Marketers and agency professionals are increasingly using online avenues and channels to master marketing skills and to upskill. This is slowly changing the value placed on marketing knowledge and degrees obtained in traditional ways
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From Cardi B to Prince Harry: When did every celebrity become a creative director?
A corporate title once reserved for the heads of fashion houses or the artistic leads at advertising firms is being tacked onto the resumes of actors, singers and models
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Across the world, Covid anxiety and depression take hold—again
Uncertainty bedevils plans. Panic spreads in an instant even if, as with the omicron variant, the extent of the threat is not yet known. Vaccines look like deliverance until they seem a little less than that
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Manish Rathi and Kapil Raizada: Chugging along for the long haul
In 2011, the rookie founders started their journey with a mobility platform for rail travel. A decade later, both are in their 50s, and have another revenue engine: Inter-city buses
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One in 100 older Americans have died in the coronavirus pandemic
Seventy-five percent of people who have died of the virus in the United States — or about 600,000 of the nearly 800,000 who have perished so far — have been 65 or older. For people younger than 65, that ratio is closer to 1 in 1,400
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2.9 billion people in the world are still offline: report
As per a recent report by the International Telecommunication Union, wide gaps exist in the percentage of people who access the internet and those who do not. Here's a look at the key findings