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'If everyone wore a face mask, this thing will be gone tomorrow!'

'The majority of the spread is by people coughing, or sneezing or talking loudly, in a very short distance, two metres from one another, and a mask will prevent that sort of transmission.'......

Lord of the trolls

'If the prime minister wants to be seen as a global statesman, then is it not embarrassing to be so closely associated with a gang of foul-mouthed bullies?' asks Vir Sanghvi.Illustration: Uttam......

How we can build 'Indianness'

The new government has to make conscious efforts to rebuild social equality and bring the people together, says Devesh Kapur. One of the most difficult challenges facing the new government is......

Success mantra of Kejriwal and Co

Sreenivasan Jain explains how the Aam Aadmi Party excelled in the Delhi assembly polls At the Aam Aadmi Party's headquarters on counting day, someone produced a guitar. Hot bread pakoras were......

Scientists discover cause of premature menopause

Scientists claim to have unearthed a cause of premature menopause - an enzyme which controls the rate at which women ovulate. The international researchers have discovered the PTEN enzyme that......

India could become the fintech hub of the world

Leveraging global capital markets to give muscle to an innate competitive advantage in rapid mass transaction systems will lead to India becoming a petri dish for global enterprises and new-age......

How the blockchain can transform the financial world

The blockchain, the public ledger that tracks every bitcoin transaction, is changing commerce as we know it, says Devangshu Datta. Photograph: George Frey/Getty Images Columbus famously found a......

Your smartphone may harbour disease-causing bacteria

Long after we have swiped and tapped our smartphones, sent or received personal texts, our devices retain a biological history of our actions, researchers said. Smartphone users, beware! Your phone......

Who is the mystery backer of world's costliest burger?

The world's first lab-grown beef burger, costing a whopping 215,000 pounds, was cooked up and tasted in public in London on Monday and experts say it is "close to meat" but lacks fat and flavour.......

How to escape the shackles at work

But wait," you may be saying, "I'm not starting with a clean sheet of paper - and I'm not the CEO. My company's been around for a while and ahs an installed base of white-bread management......

'2022 will be blockbuster year for films'

'We will see footfall returning to pre-COVID levels by January.' Photograph: Kamal Singh/PTI Photo In the words of Joni Mitchell, you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Maybe a year......

Ten ways to lose your audience

1 Get Donald Petrie to direct a film titled How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. In this cinematic Petrie dish, pit Kate Hudson against Matthew McConaughey in a story of twin deceptions. Hudson tries to......

Can India host the 2032 Olympics?

'The Mumbai-Pune Olympics will be help shift the country's gaze to a region that denotes a new formula for sports, enterprise, and nation building,' argues Shashank Mani Tripathi. IMAGE: The......

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