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Augmenting TV viewership data with RPD tech

Panel tampering is easier among channels with small viewership base. With RPD, sample size of even smaller genres will be sufficiently large, making tampering that much more challenging

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What happens when women overtake men?

When power equations between two people change, and the traditional players lose the power they held for a long time, inferiority complex sets in immediately

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Migration’s benefits for the home country

It can build diaspora connections that are important sources of brain gain rather than causing a loss in human capital

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The messy world of intelligence and its rules

Spying does not have laws, but it may have rules which are fluid and bend according to the circumstances of politics and technology

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Dressing room culture shapes player behaviour

Kagiso Rabada’s absence hurts not just him, but his team, in the ongoing series against Australia, so tantalizingly poised after the South Africans drew level 1-1 at Port Elizabeth

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Bitcoin’s anarchy is a valuable feature, not a bug

The idea that a $160 billion cryptocurrency is controlled by a software protocol running on autopilot is discomfiting to some

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Stephen Hawking and the unconstrained mind

Stephen Hawking’s real value has been in proving that a powerful brain doesn’t really need a functioning body to survive, thrive and even have fun

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Why bother with an Audi, when the Skoda looks this good?

Competition from Skoda might bruise a few egos, but neither Skoda’s customers, nor VW’s investors will mind that too much

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What the Xi Jinping era will mean for China and the world

The Chinese president wants to use authoritarian politics and high technology to create state control unprecedented in any state

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B.R. Ambedkar in the time of farmer protests

The challenge of sustainable industrial growth is intimately linked to the situation in rural India, as Ambedkar rightly pointed out a hundred years ago

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India’s rural public health facilities need urgent fixing

Facilities require urgent attention. There are two elements. One is fundamental—strengthen infrastructure, improve physical access and ensure adequate human resources

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Clean fuel, not electric vehicles, should be India’s goal

Instead of looking at electric vehicles as the antidote to India’s pollution crisis, the focus needs to shift to the use of clean petrol and diesel

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Does right to life include advance directives?

In its attempt to avoid misuse, the Supreme Court judgement has imposed bureaucratic processes that ignore the reality of how terminal illnesses evolve

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A challenging time for the Indo-Pacific

Indo-Pacific powers must take stronger action to strengthen regional stability, reiterating their commitment to shared norms and international law

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Why digital protectionism will not work for India

India must adopt a nuanced approach while the US and China slug it out. The medium- to long-term effects of protectionist policies on innovation and growth may far outstrip any short-term benefits

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Donald Trump and the Broadcom-Qualcomm deal: Who will blink?

The US argues that Broadcom will cut research spending at Qualcomm and hence allow Chinese company Huawei to take a lead in 5G telecom technology

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Donald Trump is the toast of Scandinavia’s boardrooms

Scandinavian companies, including Nokia and Ericsson, were worried about Broadcom’s reputation for slashing research and development spending after doing takeovers

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Space, the next frontier for capitalism

Investment bank Goldman Sachs estimates that space start-ups have, globally, attracted $13.3 billion of investment since 2010

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Xi Jinping’s carrot could be catalyst for an all-in China rally

More than political risk, ballooning state-owned-enterprise and local-government debt is the key concern that has prevented global investors from going all-in on China

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World’s poor need real homes, not grand monuments

It’s time for today’s architects and planners to take a step back and listen to this year’s Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi

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PSU banks: maximum government, minimum governance

The PNB fraud provides an opening for the Narendra Modi government to walk the talk on its ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ promise. Will it seize the opportunity?

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Rahul Gandhi needs allies, and a lot of them

To win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi will have to do an Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who got together two dozen parties in 1999 to run the first full-term non-Congress government

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Bank frauds and the HR factor in PSU banks

Rejuvenating the enterprise and risk propensity of public sector bankers who have gone into hibernation after the bank frauds and problem loans is essential

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The incorporation of Artificial Intelligence in Indian IT

A realistic understanding of AI, along with practices to transform industries, is required to capitalize on its benefits

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Donald Trump’s trade policy pale in front of Ronald Reagan’s

Donald Trump’s trade policy violate the spirit, if not the letter, of today’s trade agreements, Ronald Reagan’s restrictions exploited loopholes in existing arrangements

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Nandan Nilekani’s view: Public sector banks must be privatized

Along with all the challenges of NPAs, systems, human resources and governance, PSU banks now also face a rapidly evolving existential threat

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Why are farmers restless?

It is not just the failure of the government to respond to the crisis in agriculture that has angered the farmers, it is also their growing distrust of the government

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Farmer discontent

With the general election due next year, the stakes for addressing the broad discontent in the agricultural economy are that much higher

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Cannabis and crypto

The caper of serving cannabis for hors d’oeuvres cannot be allowed to slow the adoption of blockchain technology into the mainstream

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Selling pickles like wine: Consumer products from Bharat

From local spirits like feni to fine garments our products with a little more flair without being bashful about the price might just help revive traditional cottage industries

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