SAP Labs India working to design technology-agnostic solutions
SAP has over 11,000 customers in India and it plans to take the local knowledge to its global customers.
How GE’s marrying industrial with digital
At the heart of the unit — which helps light up a few dozen homes — is a dispatch algorithm that switches between solar and diesel and improves battery performance.
How GE is marrying industrial with digital
The big thrust for GE is to integrate the industrial business, which is physics-based, with digital.
Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries wants bellwether tag back
Tech firm will make strategic bets in sectors like Cloud, digital engineering, data and IoT.
View: By endorsing Trump for presidential polls, is Modi taking a short-term view?
Given the volatility of the Trump temperament, it is anybody's guess as to what could happen, whether in the immediate 14-month term or the longer one.
FM response to Kiran Mazumdar Shaw’s tweet gets thumbs up from Biocon CMD
The Biocon CMD thanked the Finance Minister for the response on Twitter.
Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram intact, but tilted, near planned landing site
The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, which has eight instruments on board including a high-resolution camera that can take pictures as small as 0.3 metres across, has captured images of Vikram on the lunar surface.
Hard landing derailed lunar mission, says K Sivan
ISRO chief says lander has been located, efforts on to communicate with device.
ISRO finds Vikram lander, yet to establish contact
As per the space agency, it has found the thermal image of the lander but has not been able to establish communication with it yet.
How will India's space odysseys fare after Chandrayaan-2?
India did not get to land on the moon but ISRO is on mission mode. There are some big plans for the future.
Madras High Court should summon TN CM over techie’s death due to illegal banner
At 2.30 pm on the afternoon of Thursday, September 12, 23-year-old IT techie Subhashree’s life was snuffed out on a busy Chennai road when a banner illegally put up by the ruling AIADMK’s local leader...
Root has more faith in his all-rounders than Kohli
The latest pre-match comment by Kohli has the Indian cricket captain talking about going into the first Test against the West Indies with four bowlers and six specialist batsmen, with the eleventh spot being fill;ed...
World’s wealthiest cricket board reduced to observer status at ICC meet
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will not have a representative at the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) board meeting in London which is taking up important issues like the monitoring of...
If Australia, England have different captains for ODIs, Tests, why not India?
In the wake of Team India’s loss in the very first knock-out match of the World Cup, it is time to relieve an overloaded Virat Kohli of the burden of leading India in all formats...
Jadeja can offer much more to Team India in World Cup than Kedar Jadhav
Team India’s selection committee chairman told the media that the all-rounder Vijay Shankar had been preferred to Ambati Rayudu because of his three-dimensional skills as a bowler, batsman and a good fielder. By that same...
Is USA dominating by telling India not to import crude from Iran/Venezuela?
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is already striking the right diplomatic note for his impending June 24th visit to India by appropriately saying, “Modi hai to mumkin hai”. However, the bilateral Indo-US relationship...
Does India, the world’s most populous democracy, suffer from too many bank holidays?
On Monday, June 10, I had some urgent work in my bank. However, when I rang up, I was told the branch was closed because of Girish Karnad’s demise at the age of 81. (I...
Bollywood could make a movie about this ordinary government-school teacher
Hollywood has made a few movies where the role model is a school teacher. Three such feature films which come to mind are “To Sir, with Love” (released in 1967 and which inspired the 1974...
Is Nirmala Sitharaman a stop-gap finance minister until Jaitley returns?
Remember a couple of years ago when the defence minister Manohar Parrikar had to return to Goa as chief minister and the finance minister Arun Jaitley was looking after both the finance and defence portfolios...
Harassment charge against Chief Justice could be heard after his tenure
The Chief Justice of India (CJ)) Ranjan Gogoi wanted the sexual-harassment charge against him to be heard immediately in view of what he termed as an allegation which was part of a larger conspiracy to...
The Kaveri may be why Rahul did not contest from Karnataka or Tamil Nadu
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are two states divided by a common river. Whenever the rains fail and the dispute over the sharing of the Kaveri river water hots up elected MPs from both states rush...
Murdered boy named but not school which hid crime by burying body
School quietly buries boy killed by seniors”, says a front-page headline in The Times of India dated March 28, 2019. The report mentions that 12-year-old Vasu Yadav of a boarding school in Dehradun was beaten...
Should BBC be a Biased Broadcasting Corporation when reporting on India?
In its daily roundup on the election scene in the world’s most populous democracy called India, the 97-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation has shown not just its age but its bias. Just click online on the...
Surely, it is time for a judicial inquiry into Mumbai’s collapsing foot over bridges
Should you consider yourself fortunate if the next time you step on a Mumbai foot over bridge (FOB which takes you to a railway station), the floor suddenly doesn’t collapse under you and you find...
Pakistan’s terror infrastructure not queried by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
If instead of 40 CRPF personnel, 40 American soldiers had been killed in the February 14 suicide car bombing for which the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad had claimed responsibility, would the American news-based TV channel CNN have...
India must have protocols to care for families of those men in uniform killed in action
In this age of terrorist strikes, organizations for the men in uniform (belonging to not just the Indian Army but the police and the paramilitary forces like the CRPF) should have by now formulated clear,...
India tries to isolate Pakistan and ends up getting isolated by the IOC
In a humiliating setback to India, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended talks on all Indian applications for hosting future Olympic-related events. The IOC has also asked international sports federations not to organize events...
Only Indian cricketers, fans will be punished if India forfeits Pak World Cup tie
Yes, India should snap all bilateral cricketing, sports and cultural ties with Pakistan following Islamabad’s continued and shameless support and encouragement of Pakistan-based terrorist groups which regularly attack India, the latest instance being the February...
India should not play cricket in Antigua until Mehul Choksi is extradited
Antigua has a proud cricketing tradition, symbolized by its best-known citizen, the legendary Sir Vivian Richards, the world’s most dominating batsman of the era when he represented the West Indies for almost a decade from...
Supreme Court must clarify when it says Ayodhya hearing put off due to non-availability of judge
Surely, there cannot be anything more important than a five-judge Constitution bench hearing on the Ayodhya issue where the Chief Justice of India would have consulted the other four judges before fixing January 29, 2019,...
Is K L Rahul being punished because of the rift in the CoA?
Going by media reports, the crude sexist comments on the Koffee With Karan chat-show telecast on January 6 were all made by Hardik Pandya and not by his fellow-interviewee K L Rahul who, when asked...
Mamata shows she is better leader than Rahul by condemning 48-hour bandh
At a time when Congress leaders like Rahul Gandhi have been repeatedly criticizing Prime Minister Modi’s national government for not generating employment for millions of youths, the only opposition leader to prove that she really...
Hail Pujara, Kohli, Bumrah and Shami but remember Tim Paine
After the 1961 fiasco of the invasion by US-armed Cuban exiles of their homeland, President John F Kennedy put things in perspective when he said, “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.”...
India’s Congress party and the tall poppy syndrome
The late Martin Crowe, one of New Zealand’s most outstanding batsmen, once referred to the tall poppy syndrome (meaning the dismissal, derision or denigration of individual excellence) to make the point that the Kiwi cricket...
Could India have won sooner if Kohli had kept a forward short-leg for pacers?
It was only after 90 overs in the Aussie second innings that captain Kohli brought in a forward short-leg for his fast bowlers. With the Indian fast bowlers, especially Bumrah, putting in so much effort...
In Ram Rajya no UP CM would dismiss a policeman’s murder as an accident
There is no justification for violence, whether it is perpetrated by stone-throwers in Sopore in Jammu & Kashmir or in Mahaw in Bulandshahr. And there is no way murder can be termed an accident.
Are Indian TV channels hypocritical when reporting on sexual harassment?
People in glass houses should not throw stones, goes an old adage. Does that apply to TV news-channels reporting on sexual harassment by senior employees in other organizations, whether in the public or private sector,...
Is Team India underestimating the Aussie challenge Down Under?
Before this summer’s tour of England, a few former international cricketers were quoted as saying that Team India would dominate the series against what they termed as one of the weakest English Test teams. Their...
CBI infighting shows not just politicians but TV-channels polarized
It’s bad enough that the top two officers in India’s premier crime-fighting national police agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), are levelling charges of corruption against each other. What makes it even worse is...
Are witnesses for Akbar being intimidated by TV news-anchors?
In journalism, there is something called listening to both sides of the story. And that becomes even more important when allegations of sexual assault move from the court of public opinion to a legal court...
#MeToo: Will Indian media houses where Akbar worked testify against him?
If the journalist turned Minister of State for External Affairs (pun unintended) M J Akbar goes ahead and files a defamation suit against the 11 women scribes who have accused him on social media of...
Shardul Thakur breaking down after ten deliveries shows up the CoA
Can a fast bowler break down with a groin injury twice in consecutive international matches and that too after getting a fitness certificate from India’s National Cricket Academy (NCA) stating that he has recovered from...
Those stopping Senator to demand probe would be arrested or shot in India
If the confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court choice Brett Kavanaugh was delayed by a week to allow for an FBI inquiry into allegations of sexual assault while in high school, it could have been...
Should the President of India speak out on the Rewari gang-rape?
A brief statement or even tweet by President Kovind, expressing his grief while mentioning not just Rewari but other recent horrific incidents, would, at the least, strike a chord among the people who had hoped that the authorities had been empowered to act by the legislation enacted in both houses of Parliament after the terrible December 16, 2012, assault on Nirbhaya from which she never recovered.
News-channel telecasts victim-shaming, then criticizes victim-shaming
There is an old saying about pinching a baby and then rocking the cradle to stop it crying. One was reminded of this while watching on a leading English TV news-channel its “Five-Live” programme on...
Why is India playing ODIs on consecutive days in Dubai’s desert heat?
Just a week after enduring the chill of an English September at the Oval in London, Team India is jumping into the fire of Dubai’s desert heat by playing two one-day internationals (ODIs) on consecutive...
Would research-scholar Sofia shout slogans in an aircraft in Canada?
Even in the most liberal of democracies like Canada (where the 22-year-old research-scholar Lois Sofia is reportedly studying when not shouting anti-BJP slogans inside an Indian civilian aircraft and at Tuticorin airport), given the perennial...
The Old Man and the Sea on Marina Beach
I never met him but he was there in the year of my birth. He was there when I studied in the Chennai suburban school of St Patrick’s. And he became the Chief Minister of...
Virat is a great batsman but have Kohli and Shastri unsettled Team India?
A year ago, the Team India management (dominated on overseas tours by the captain Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri) decided that India’s best ODI opening batsmen were Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan and that there...
I voted for NaMo in 2014 and I expect the BJP to stop the lynching by gau-rakshaks
On the night of July 23, India’s news-channels quoted official data stating that attacks by gau-rakshak samitis (cow-protection committees) had spiked by 98% since 2014 (when the BJP-led NDA government came to power) and that...
Media carried away by Rahul hug and forgets misquoting of French president
It was not just the idiot box (meaning electronic media) which got carried away by Rahul Gandhi’s act of crossing the floor of the Lok Sabha and hugging a seated PM at the end of...
Committee of Administrators reduces BCCI to Board of Chaos for Cricket in India
The treatment of injuries of international sportsmen is always a dicey affair. A hurried rehabilitation can make things worse. Going by media reports, the rehabilitation at the BCCI’s Bangalore-based National Cricket Academy (NCA) appears to...
India is neither a British colony nor an American one
Independent India is now nearly 71 years young but the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) are still displaying an attitude of almost colonial condescension in their official interactions with us....
If TV anchor dreams Karunanidhi contests 2019 Lok Sabha poll, would it be Breaking News
At the outset, I would like to apologize since I am not a TV anchor but a very ordinary viewer for dreaming this afternoon that the 93-year-old DMK supremo Muthuvel Karunanidhi was contesting the 2019...
Horse trading could have begun when JD(S) was offered post of CM
A Bengaluru schoolkid would be shocked if a boy who came a distant third in class was awarded the first prize. However, everything goes in the political arena, especially under the guise of something called...
Why ban only IPL in Chennai when Rajini-Kamal movies are also entertainment
Just the other day, the actor turned (or turning) politician Rajinikanth told the TV news-channels that it was embarrassing for Chennai to host IPL matches at a time when farmers in Tamil Nadu were in...
Karnataka ministers get security while Lokayukta gets stabbed in chamber
It happens only in Karnataka. The Lokayukta Justice P Vishwanatha Shetty is stabbed three times inside his chamber at around 1.40 pm on the afternoon of March 7 by a knife-wielding assailant Tej Raj Sharma...
When India’s polity is polarized, should the media follow suit?
India’s high-visibility electronic media seems to be following the lead of the very polarized polity. Take India’s capital city of Delhi where the state government is controlled by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which is...
Did J&K CM consult Defence Minister before filing FIR against Major Aditya?
Media reports quote the J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti as saying she had consultations with the country’s defence minister (raksha mantri or RM) Nirmala Sitharaman before the state police filed an FIR against Major Aditya...
If Johannesburg Test is abandoned, BCCI should call off South Africa tour
The pitch at the Wanderers Stadium for the third and final Test at Johannesburg was prepared to make life difficult for the Indian team even after South Africa had clinched the series by winning the...
