Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaSurveillance India's among the world's top three surveillance statesQuartz - Niharika Sharma• Aadhaar identification system: Under Aadhaar, citizens get a unique identification number. The system houses the largest biometric database, or data of 1.23 billion people. The controversial system made
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaIndia Young Indians can learn from Savitribai Phule, Amrita Sher-GilQuartz - Neha J HiranandaniA huge part of feminism also means ensuring young women have female role models. Across generations, Indian women have achieved incredible things and sparked seminal social movements. Their roles, though,
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaMumbai Mumbai's salt pans may soon fall by in big BJP real estate plansQuartz - Nikhil S DixitIn the run-up to the Maharashtra legislative assembly elections on Oct. 21, 2019, the state’s chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, has announced several projects to woo voters. But one announcement that under
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaTechnology (India) A robot is teaching better hand washing habits to kids in KeralaQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaWhen kids in Wayanad’s Government Primary School Chithragiri in north Kerala go to wash their hands, Pepe watches from above. At the school, with 100-odd students aged between five and 10, the hand-shaped
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Pakistan bots helped #GoBackModi during Xi Jinping's India visitQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaWhen Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was holding an “informal summit” with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Chennai on Oct. 11, over 12,000 tweets under the #GobackModi hashtag originated from Pakistan,
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaNirmala Sitharaman Nirmala Sitharaman or Esther Duflo, casual sexism spares no oneQuartz - Barkha DuttThis week, two high-profile women who don’t know each other—in fact, one is a critic of the other—discovered they have something in common: casual sexism. Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s first full-time female
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaIndia After "OYO ruined my anniversary," startup faces safety concernQuartz - Itika Sharma PunitOne of India’s most-funded and widely celebrated tech startups has for long been at the receiving end of customer grievances about poor and faulty services. Now things may have gone too far. On Oct. 14,
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaTechnology (India) Indian executives are too overworked to deal with cybersecurityQuartz - Sangeeta TanwarSaddled with multiple responsibilities, Indian business leaders are hard-pressed to focus on cybersecurity. Data breaches are hitting Indian businesses hard. About 35,636 records were compromised in various
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaFinance (India) Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee, Raghuram Rajan on India's economyQuartz - Abhijit Banerjee• The massive aggregate fiscal deficit of the states and the Centre combined leaves fewer, costlier, resources for private investment. We should aim to hit the FRBM suggested 5% of GDP by 2023—but not
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaIndia Ambani, Virat Kohli, Akshay Kumar aren't India's highest earnersQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaA few people earn a monumental amount of money in India. Nearly 5.6 million people in the country reportedly earn over Rs10 lakh ($14,043) annually, according to 2018-19 income tax data from the ministry
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaNobel Prize Why did Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer win the Nobel prize this year?Quartz - Arnab BhattacharjeeThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 (commonly known as the Nobel prize for economics) has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer their
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaFinance (India) Abhijit Banerjee, economics Nobel winner, is everything BJP hatesQuartz - Manavi KapurThe Indian-American who just won the world’s highest honour in economics is simply the antithesis of much that the current Indian government stands for. Abhijit Banerjee won this year’s Sveriges Riksbank
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaVenture Capital Here's how the VC world actually functionsQuartz - Sajith PaiArtko Capital, a US-based special situations micro fund, recently tweeted about how the venture capital (VC) firm Eniac Ventures had, it seemed, “discovered” gross margins. How?? How are these real people
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaJio Why Jio's charging for calls to Airtel, Vodafone-Idea usersQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaIs India’s biggest telecom company trying to arm twist the sector regulator into reducing tariffs? It increasingly seems so, going by last Friday’s (Oct. 11) Twitter trend #BoycottJio apparently fuelled
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaIndia World Bank spoils Modi & team's magic realism on Indian economyQuartz - Manavi KapurThe World Bank has slashed its estimate for India’s 2019-20 GDP growth rate from 7.5% to 6%. It has done based on a number of data points showing weakening demand, low investment, vulnerabilities in India’s
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaAir India Air India divestment may run into trouble post pilot resignationsQuartz - Niharika Sharma• Pilots’ protest: Yesterday (Oct. 13), Air India was rocked by the mass resignation of 120 Airbus A-320 pilots, who said their various demands went unheeded by the management. “Air India’s management
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaTechnology (India) India's Modi has more followers on Instagram than Trump, ObamaQuartz - Niharika SharmaIndian prime minister Narendra Modi has beaten yet another social media record. With over 30 million followers, the 64-year-old has become the world’s most followed political leader on photosharing app
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaDiwali Despite low farm fires Delhi's air is toxic even before DiwaliQuartz - Kuwar SinghIt’s that time of the year again when crop residual burning in the northern Indian states of Haryana and Punjab starts making Delhi’s air quality toxic. But this year, things are looking a tad better—at
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaPublic Relations Instagram, YouTube, TikTok stars are clicking with Indian brandsQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaMove over Bollywood stars, social media celebrities are taking the advertising world by storm. By 2020, global influencer marketing is poised to be a $20 billion industry. Of this, India accounts for fledgling
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaIndia ISRO's history before Mangalyaan and Chandrayaan-2Quartz - Manavi KapurBefore the televised excitement of Chandrayaan-2 and inspired movies like Mission Mangal, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was once just a pipe dream. Over five decades ago, India broke into
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaTwitter India’s startup star wants men to “learn” from a Twitter account that says sex dolls will replace feminist womenQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaThe man behind one of India’s greatest startup stories just made a tone-deaf endorsement on Twitter. On Oct. 9, Sachin Bansal, the co-founder of Flipkart, India’s biggest homegrown e-commerce sites (now
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaClimate NDMA will spearhead Modi's global disaster-proof infra coalitionQuartz - Kuwar SinghIndia hopes to lead the world in developing natural disaster-proof infrastructure. On Sept. 23, on the sidelines of the UN climate summit, prime minister Narendra Modi announced that the country is building
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaIndia Indians don't trust Flipkart, Amazon India ratings, reviewsQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaIndians would not give online retailers much points for transparency. Most shoppers in the country feel reviews and ratings of products sold on e-commerce sites exhibit a positive bias, online community
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaFinance (India) RBI's flouting of RTI norms may've caused PMC Bank crisisQuartz - Shailesh GandhiIt is distressing to watch depositors of Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank weeping on TV about their life savings being in jeopardy. With withdrawals from the troubled institution limited to
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaSexism Sexism, safety key concerns of Indian female drivers, mechanicsQuartz - Niharika SharmaAfter long years of battling amused stares and plain bias, Indian women have begun to come on their own behind the wheels. Yet, rampant sexism is clearly thriving, particularly when industry veterans seem
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaTechnology (India) How to make viral videos for Twitter, Facebook, InstagramQuartz - Aashish ChopraOver the years, the one thing I’ve learnt is that content marketing is the exact opposite of advertising. When we’re brainstorming ideas for a video, I’m always cautious not to make it seem like an ad.
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaKashmir What is Kashmir's place in India's collective memory?Quartz - Isha DubeyA few years ago, the Jammu and Kashmir state tourism department took out an advert called Kashmir: The Warmest Place on Earth. The advert showed an Indian couple honeymooning in Kashmir who mistakes an
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaIndia India slips 10 ranks in WEF's global competitiveness indexQuartz - Kuwar SinghIndia’ global competitiveness has fallen for the third year in a row. The country has slid 10 places on this year’s global competitiveness index, “an annual assessment of the drivers of productivity and
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaFinance (India) How Flipkart's Big Billion Day, Amazon's Great India Festival didQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaFestivals are a massive business opportunity in India, and like every year, e-commerce companies went all out to milk it this time, too. During the six-day festive sales event between Sept. 29 and Oct.
Quartz Indiaflipped into Quartz IndiaTechnology (India) India Inc survey says regulators behind on technology curveQuartz - Sangeeta TanwarIndia’s business leaders have little faith in their many regulators’ understanding of the fast-evolving technology landscape. Most (70%) believe that authorities, which regulate various industries in country,
