As you can imagine for folks in the business of producing conferences the last few weeks have resulted in a great deal of thinking…. and rethinking of our plans for our upcoming events, particularly Code and Code Leaders in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the meme goes–”life comes at you fast”.  Just 7 days ago we wrote to […]

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The International Monetary Fund said that the global economic outlook has worsened since its latest forecast three weeks ago and the world can expect

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With the entire country in lockdown, the 'No Shave November' memo seems to have come in early!

The Max group is looking at listing three of its companies, Max India, Max New York Life and Max Healthcare.

Traditional services also have some very strong propositions, like digital workplace, engineering services. Some of the demand for that is intact and it is only getting accelerated.

Companies like Panasonic India, Godrej Appliances, Dixon Technologies and Super Plastronics Pvt Ltd said with retail outlets shut there is no point to start production as there is existing unsold inventory of March at warehouses and dealers.

Trump’s move to blame China for the Covid-19 outbreak is expected to worsen global trade ties.

The tennis legend has dropped a series of photographs on her Instagram page that brings 'message of hope and optimism'.

Trinamool Congress has opened four party offices in Darjeeling, claims to have '40,000 members''.

Expressing disappointment over growth slowing to 5% this fiscal, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said that things would look up in next financial year.

Hit by fall in profit margins, investment growth

Doing away with subsidies, correcting policy imperfections

In an attempt to combat the problem of shrinking farm labour availability, the worse of which is felt during the paddy season...

Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

The diversification stride in the country''s granary state has reached banana groves. The baby step was taken in 2005 in a small village...

Assam is counting on boro rice to achieve the target of 46.7 lakh-metric tonnes that it has set for the crop this year.

Growing silently since early 1980s, small gardens have now come to contribute over 20 per cent to the total tea output of Assam

Govt has little role to play as farmers move to cotton, sugarcane, maize, pulses. Paddy acreage set to fall by 1 lakh hectare

The inspiration comes from Tripura, which is second only to Kerala in rubber production in the country.

As the clamour for a hike in cotton support price grows shriller, a study has found that cost of its production in backward regions like Vidarbha has gone up by 42 per cent

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar''s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

Indian researchers, along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium

Ties up with a Japanese agency to share and transfer knowledge, experience and technologies for soybean cultivation

To break monopoly of state-run markets, encourage direct procurement

Jammu and Kashmir''s efforts to promote pisciculture as a means of employment are gradually drawing in young Kashmiris.

The black carrot, once a grandma's special but now largely forgotten by the country, is making a comeback to Punjab.

With customers caught in a swirl of panic and fear, life insurance companies are looking at confidence building measures for a post Covid-19 world

However, the virtual shutdown of the economy and the question mark surrounding the return to normalcy mean the markets are not yet out of the woods

PMI's services did contract, with trade, hospitality coming to a grinding halt, though the pace of fall in the index was not as steep as that of the core sector

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India and Israel have signed a far-reaching agreement on homeland security where the two countries will collaborate on policing, forensics, counter-terrorism, etc. Israel's ambassador Alon Ushpiz spoke with Indrani Bagchi about shared concerns, PM Modi — and justice in the 2012 attack on an Israeli diplomat:

'Katrina gives a lot of inputs, like the colours that suit her skin tone.'

'Naseeruddin Shah will be an interesting contestant on Bigg Boss We can send Rakhi Sawant back in the house because I really enjoyed her on the show.'

'That's the way it should be -- people should see your work and then want to work with you, not because you are a celebrity's child.'

'The skin of any celebrity will show its age more than a normal person because we are always exposed to lights. So, we need to take extra care.'

'We are so busy in our lives, there is never any time.'

Power rests in the hands of a corrupt military and political oligarchy that denies people the right to self-determination, reports Hamza Hamouchene.

Jon Snyder shot this video on the Red Scarlet-X Camera, a slightly simplified version of the rigs Peter Jackson used to film his Lord of the Rings prequel.

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Passion and optimism often go hand-in-hand, which couldn’t be truer for Bill Gates and President Bill Clinton when it comes to their outlook on the future. The two share their thoughts on the rapid pace and excitement of today’s innovations, and how humanity’s balance between conflict and cooperation will continue to fuel economic opportunity for years to come. For more from Bill Gates and President Clinton, check out the December 2013 issue of WIRED.

Belkin’s Conserve Insight energy monitor tells you how much juice—and dough—your appliances are using so you can decide what’s worth plugging in.

Amazon’s turned a new page with its latest Paperwhite e-reader. See what’s been upgraded and what’s been ditched in favor of the new model.

The Hozuki lantern from Snow Peak goes for versatility around the campsite—both inside and outside the tent.

Consider it electronic Lego. littleBits consists of tiny modules that snap together to form circuits, creating simple devices and teaching basic electronics.