Most cabs are still not fitted with panic buttons, a key safety feature promised by the government. With this crucial feature missing and blacklisted drivers continuing to drive, a wrong turn or a deserted lane is all it takes for a routine cab ride to turn into a nightmare.
Most cabs are still not fitted with panic buttons, a key safety feature promised by the government. With this crucial feature missing and blacklisted drivers continuing to drive, a wrong turn or a deserted lane is all it takes for a routine cab ride to turn into a nightmare.
Over the last decade, the last three years in particular, the difference between mid-cap funds has almost disappeared. Most of them have underperformed and the category leader, too, has negative returns. Mid-cap funds have caught the large-cap funds’ blues of vanishing returns.
The aviation regulator conducted a surprise audit at the airlines’ headquarters and detected grave violations. SpiceJet says it will reply within the stipulated time.
The life of the poor in this country is an everyday battle. Trying to save a part of the measly income is even tougher. Now, a barely year-old startup wants to change that. While most existing microfinance firms and NBFCs only sell financial products, Kaleidofin understands the goals of its customers and with the help of an algorithm comes up with the most suitable financial product.
Frequently vilified as a surveillance tool, the technology is helping trace, rescue, and rehabilitate trafficked children. The government wants every police station to implement the technology. However, in the absence of stringent data-privacy safeguards, big risks remain.
Technology-led work-function disruption is fast becoming an obstacle to maintaining gender diversity at the workplace. Here’s how companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Ingersoll Rand are grappling with this challenge.
Nearly 70 million Indians live with some form of rare genetic disease. But for global drug makers, the country isn’t a priority. Unless local firms step up their R&D efforts, the government remedies its lack of policy preparedness, and obscene drug prices are tamed, this population will oscillate between helplessness and despair.
Analysts assume that a startup will turn around in the future, even if the present isn’t great. But then the hope only keeps rolling over. Take Uber. Year after year, analysts keep forecasting that the 10-year-old company will break even in another five years.
Much better-cared for than their peers in other airlines, the staff of Jet Airways continued to serve, even without salaries, till its last flight on the night of April 17. With no end in sight to that long night, they now find themselves caught between the family they have to feed and the one that gave them everything.
Markets can see into the future. Despite a strong show, DMart’s stock has been losing steam of late. While early signs of margin pressure and sluggish profit growth are to blame, the retailer needs to focus more on new and lucrative segments to stay in the game.
