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Dec 03, 2022 11:24 AM ISTTwitter keeps missing its advertising targets as woes mount
Elon Musk has repeatedly warned that his company faces dire financial straits. Interviews with 7 former employees and internal documents seen by The New York Times paint a fuller picture of Twitter’s financial woes
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Nov 30, 2022 12:06 PM IST Proud, scared and conflicted. What the China protesters told me.
Young Chinese are protesting the country’s harsh “zero-Covid” policy and even urging its top leader, Xi Jinping, to step down. It’s something China hasn’t seen since 1989
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Nov 29, 2022 11:49 AM IST Chinese unrest over lockdowns upends global economic outlook
Millions of China’s citizens have chafed under a tight lockdown for months and anger turned to widespread protests after an apartment fire killed 10 last week, leading to questions over whether the lockdown had prevented the victim’s escape
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Nov 26, 2022 02:19 PM IST Qatar World Cup 2022 | For Mexico, an Unlucky Seven
Having made its way into the knockout round of every World Cup since 1994, Brazil has won two World Cup Finals and played in a third. Mexico? Each time it reached the round of 16, it promptly lost the next game and went home
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Nov 26, 2022 02:07 PM IST Kherson evacuates hospitals under relentless Russian shelling
Russian forces shelled the city and surrounding area 49 times Thursday and Friday, the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevych, said. Thursday was one of the deadliest days since the Kremlin ordered its forces to retreat
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Nov 21, 2022 02:12 PM IST Ukraine plans evacuations in two stricken cities as temperatures plunge
But even as planning for the evacuations from the southern cities of Kherson and Mykolaiv was beginning, Ukraine braced for a difficult winter ahead. And both in cities on the front line and across the country, the true toll of the last eight months of fighting became still clearer
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Nov 15, 2022 01:18 PM IST FIFA World Cup 2022: Qatar World Cup faces new edict: Hide the beer
The decision to move beer stations appeared to be rooted in concern that prominent presence of alcohol at stadiums would unsettle locals and represent a potential security problem. But it also highlighted an issue that has stalked the build-up to the first World Cup in the Arab world
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Nov 10, 2022 12:33 PM IST The collapse of FTX — Is this crypto’s Lehman moment?
To non-crypto watchers, FTX’s collapse might sound boring or esoteric, the kind of story you’d happily scroll past on your way to reading about Elon Musk’s latest Twitter tempest. But within the crypto world, it is already being referred to as the industry’s “Lehman moment”
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Nov 10, 2022 10:23 AM IST On Twitter, Elon Musk details his plans for Twitter’s business
Musk said Twitter would make money from content creators, delve deeper into video, and discussed a vision for Twitter to process payments. He has said the ultimate hope is to transform Twitter into an “everything app”, modelled after China’s WeChat
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Oct 30, 2022 05:59 PM IST Neil Bhoopalam: The rehearsal process is like cooking a biryani; you can't rush it
The Masaba Masaba actor is gearing up for NCPA’s production of playwright Tom Stoppard’s play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
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Oct 29, 2022 06:11 PM IST Funnycontrol | An open letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak’s Halloween costume and the UK's cost of living in these times.
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Oct 29, 2022 07:20 AM IST What’s in a name? Keralites will tell you
Names here often sound like a random coming together of consonants, but we Mallus have taken it in our stride because, you see, we are cool that way.
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Oct 25, 2022 06:57 PM IST Offices are better for mingling than for focusing
The office will become a place workers return to willingly, if less frequently, if it offers something they can’t get at home: camaraderie.
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Oct 25, 2022 03:32 PM IST Big, fat Indian weddings back in vogue, of course with a Covid twist
While the Covid impact on the Indian wedding industry has subsided, some of its effects remain. From shorter guest lists to opting for more convenient wedding dates, the priorities of those getting married have changed
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Oct 23, 2022 07:45 PM IST Diwali home décor: Cane, bamboo and earthy hues, go natural this festive season
How to creatively utilise natural elements indoors this Diwali to feel that sense of earthy liberation once again
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Oct 23, 2022 07:22 PM IST Funnycontrol | Where to invest Rs 1 lakh if you’re not a motivational speaker
Tip 5: Stay away from crypto till Bitcoin falls lower than the current popularity ratings of Joe Biden. At that level, even an NFT of Kamala Harris saying “We did it Joe” would be a multi-bagger.
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Oct 23, 2022 06:10 PM IST Shantanu and Nikhil: ‘Fashion is also about an ethical approach towards a better environment while looking chic’
The fashion label Shantnu & Nikhil's new collection Nomad, which experiments with prints, silhouettes and textures, goes in a new direction of looking at design as a responsibility and great power
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Oct 23, 2022 05:25 PM IST Sex education influencer Leeza Mangaldas: 'I lose followers every time I talk about queerness or the reality of orgasm gap'
The popular sex education content creator-turned-author talks about her just-released book The Sex Book, her experiences with talking about sex in a deeply repressed society as India, and being an educator among influencers
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Oct 22, 2022 07:52 AM IST 'Lincoln in the Bardo' and other influences on Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize winning novel
The Sri Lankan author’s Booker Prize-winning novel, 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', bears the mark of many other writers, adding up to a distinctive and unique whole.
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Oct 17, 2022 09:58 AM IST The man who bet on Neymar wants his money
A rich man when he made the deal in 2009, Delcir Sonda is seeking at least $35 million. But Sonda doesn’t really need the money, he admitted. All he wants, he said in an interview in his office high above São Paulo, is the truth
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Oct 16, 2022 11:40 AM IST Diwali party prep: Paul John gin, Glenfiddich 21 YO and 3 more spirits to restock your home bar
A Greek brandy, Paul John’s new gin, and a grand old Glenfiddich — there’s a lot to look forward to this Diwali.
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Oct 16, 2022 08:27 AM IST Scripting the future of fountain pens
Do people really use ink pens? We asked someone who has been investing in writing instruments.
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Oct 15, 2022 07:53 AM IST My Family and Other Globalizers | Landlines made us more social; mobile phones, more forgetful
It was the family landline that helped me, and countless others, become adept at the artifice that is so much part of social life.
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Oct 12, 2022 10:46 AM IST Meet the app that helps gig workers know how much they really make
The app offers a tiny form of resistance for drivers — who get paid by the job, and not the hour — against the dominance of the large companies that dispatch millions to deliver pizza, groceries, prescriptions or marijuana at the tap of a button
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Oct 12, 2022 09:06 AM IST Joe Biden, storyteller in chief, spins yarns that often unravel
The exaggerated biography that Joe Biden tells includes having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.”
