By Manish Gupta New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), which turned two this month, remains a work in progress despite creditors getting record recoveries and a rise of never-before opportunities…
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, Dec 27 (IANS) Embracing disruptive technologies to stay ahead of the curve, the buoyant Indian IT industry made digital business its growth driver in 2018, despite facing a shortage of skills…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Technology was a game-changer in the arts landscape in 2018, pushing the limits of approach and aesthetics — and even the creators — while there was also…
By Gokul Bhagabati New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) The speed at which global technology giants changed the way people lead their lives — the way they talk to each other or conduct businesses — without…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Dec 26 (IANS) From showing a pregnant woman in her early 50s at centrestage in a mainstream film to pretty faces of Hindi cinema being cast as characters celebrating their sexual…
By Rituraj Baruah New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The year turned out to be an eventful one for the Indian real estate marked by the improvement in sales and its return to stability after the…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) As smartphones went through a couple of noticeable innovations in the hardware department in 2018 — especially Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven cameras and improved battery — the rise…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Dec 25 (IANS) A year is a long time in politics. In Uttar Pradesh, the change of the calendar from 2017 to 2018 saw a tectonic shift in the political landscape,…
By Bhavana Akella Bengaluru, Dec 25 (IANS) India witnessed a dramatic rise of eight unicorns in 2018 from among the start-ups across verticals as against a mere nine in six years from 2011 till 2017,…
By Simran Sethi New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Age and medium is no bar for talent — and in 2018, Indian showbiz paved the way for senior actors to return to the limelight. Neena Gupta,…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Early Assembly elections and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) retaining power with a landslide majority earlier this month dominated the events in Telangana during 2018. Eight months before…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) In a year of unabated vitriol against liberal writers, historians and public intellectuals, books emerged as the avenue of expressing dissent and chronicling the trials and tribulations…
By Rachel V. Thomas New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) While several medical advancements this year demonstrated potential treatment for life-threatening diseases, some were mired in controversies — creating a raging debate among the medical and…
By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Clearing the smoke of uncertainty over the issue of a cleaner environment, India this year succeeded in its multilateral diplomacy to evolve a roadmap for the international…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Dec 21 (IANS) The year 2018 could be termed as one of several new beginnings for the Indian space agency: the political sanction for a manned Gaganyaan mission, operationlisation of the…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) While the buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) gained ground in 2018, tech giants decided to utilise the Machine Leaning (ML)-based algorithms not just to help enterprises drive…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Many consider Dulquer Salmaan, who set foot in Bollywood this year with the road movie “Karwaan”, to be the best export from the southern filmdom. If the…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Scripting a fresh narrative in Indian publishing, the year saw a sustained interest of both publishers as well as readers in non-fiction while a new wave of…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Dec 19 (IANS) History was created when the first straight poll battle between the country’s dominant Left party, the CPI-M, and the BJP saw the Narxist stronghold of Tripura crumble in…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Dec 18 (IANS) The lotus was in full bloom in 2017 as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged out of its 14-year political exile and stormed to power in India’s most…