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Privacy matters
You wouldn’t want anyone else seeing what you do online, would you? But they already do WhatsApp’s new privacy policy is in essence providing Facebook a way to monetise messages on the messaging app. At one level, it makes sense since users of the messaging app are getting a free service,...
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Virushka set the bar
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Go, India!
15 January 2021 | Pioneer -
Welcome, Tesla!
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The jab of health
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Hate, in vogue?
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It's farmers now
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The Sydney stain
12 January 2021 | Pioneer
SC reprimands Govt
Court wants farm laws paused till the deadlock with farmers can be resolved through dialogue, not judicial intervention It has happened again; the Supreme Court reminding the Executive to carry out its functions rather than relying on legal intervention on matters that it is perfectly equipped to handle. Except, this time,...
Bucking the trend
Elon Musk is now the world's richest person, and the good news is that he plans to spend on public welfare projects The year 2020 was financially challenging for many people around the world, with the pandemic wreaking havoc on countless businesses, lives and livelihoods. The new year, too, seems to...
Trumpism is here
Twitter has banned the US President but can it disregard its own role in fanning the fire that led to chaos at DC? Social media platform Twitter may have banned US President Donald Trump and, in turn, been accused of being a liberal Democrat plank to undercut him but the fact...
Clipping an outbreak
The bird flu is no good news but India seems to be putting to good use the lessons learnt during the COVID pandemic The new decade has not begun on a good note for India. Anyone who followed what the health experts and virologists had been predicting about the path the...
China's vaccine gambit
Xi Jinping hopes that his ‘Health Silk Road' can justify his refusal for a WHO-led probe into the pandemic There is no doubt that China has been stained by its mishandling of the Wuhan contagion and the world had to pay a huge price for its wilful suppression of facts that...
Finding democracy
The United States will find it hard to sell democracy if its leaders can't fix their own There are exactly two weeks to go before Joseph Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States (US) on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington DC. His predecessor...
SC nod to makeover
Top court greenlights Govt’s Central Vista project with caveats but will it be another symbolic ritual? Finally, India@75, the hashtag and slogan that’s being touted as the Narendra Modi Government’s crowning glory in perpetuating a new idea of nationhood, is a reality. For, its symbolic representation — a new Parliament...
