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Watch: From Bengaluru to Mumbai, how climate change is affecting megacities

Bengaluru, India’s Silicon Valley, was once a shining example of rapid urbanisation, job generation, and the growth of new-age businesses. But everything came crashing down when the city had to battle urban flooding in the first two weeks of September 2022. Overnight rain —the heaviest for the month in 75 years — submerged large parts of the city, causing an estimated loss of Rs 225 crore. Watch the video to know how climate change is affecting megacities.

Soon, India to get an adult TB vaccine

India is set to get an adult Tuberculosis vaccine soon. According to reports, SII is working on the rBCG vaccine. India reported a sharp 19 per cent rise in TB cases in 2021 over 2020. Watch the video to know more.

World Suicide Prevention Day: Data on businesspersons tell a shocking story

Suicide is a a growing problem and the numbers tell a shocking story. A total of 12,055 businesspersons died by suicide in 2021. According to data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of such deaths in the farming segment was 10,881.

Start monitoring your credit score now: Here's why

Not only are lenders nowadays using credit scores to decide whether to lend, they are also doing differential pricing of their loans based on borrowers’ credit scores. To learn about how credit scores are calculated, how your behaviour impacts your score, and how you can improve it, watch Sanjay Kumar Singh of Business Standard interview Subhrangshu Chattopadhyay, Director of Business Development at CRIF High Mark, one of the country’s four credit bureaus.

Explained: What is a codeshare flight?

In August, Indigo announced a codeshare partnership with the British airline, Virgin Atlantic. What is it and how does it benefit flyers?

Decoded: How does Wikipedia work?

After India's five-wicket defeat to Pakistan on 4th September, Arshdeep Singh was criticised heavily on Twitter. Later that night, the Wikipedia page about him was edited to read that he had been selected to play for the "Khalistan" cricket team. The page was eventually restored.

OPPO Enco Buds2: Unboxing the affordable pair of true wireless earbuds

Successor of the Enco Buds, the OPPO Enco Buds2 are priced at Rs 1,799. The wireless earbuds will be available for purchase in India on August 31, online on OPPO store and Flipkart. The earbuds support OPPO’s proprietary Enco Live Stereo Sound Effects along with Dolby Atmos. The earbuds are IPX4-rated for protection against sweat and minor water splashes.

India@75 - Past, Present & Future

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Explained- What is Medical Tourism?

Medical tourism is back with a bang in India, after being nearly reduced to naught during the two years hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. India, in recent years, has emerged as a major hub for medical tourism. The nation also has a highly skilled medical fraternity, making it an attractive location. Visit business-standard.com for more news, views and insights

Teachers' Day: A glimpse into the plight of govt school teachers in India

On Teachers' Day, take a look at the plight of government school teachers in rural India >

INS Vikrant: India's newly-commissioned aircraft carrier

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday morning commissioned the first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant in a ceremony at Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi. Designed by the Indian Navy's in-house Warship Design Bureau (WDB) and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, Vikrant has been built with state-of-the-art automation features and is the largest ship ever built in the maritime history of India. Watch the video to know more about the aircraft carrier.

Brands that got into trouble for toxic ingredients

From 2023, Johnson & Johnson will not be selling its talc-based baby powder. Thousands of women have filed lawsuits claiming they developed ovarian cancer because of the product. Over the years, there have been reports of several products containing chemicals with known health problems and with no warnings in this regard to consumers. Let's take a look at some products that have been mired in controversy in the past

India records 87 rape cases every day: NCRB data

87...this is the number of rape cases India records every day on average. The latest compilation by the NCRB reveals India registered 31,677 rape cases during 2021. This is 19.34% more than the number of rape cases in 2020. Watch the video to know about the increasing number of rape incidents in India.

While gold can provide stability, silver can provide the return kicker”

Investing in gold and silver is a must if you wish to reap the diversification benefit. Recently, Edelweiss Mutual Fund launched the new fund offer for a fund-of-fund that invests in gold and silver ETFs. On this occasion, speaking to Sanjay Kumar Singh, Radhika Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, Edelweiss Mutual Fund compared gold to large-cap equity funds for the stable returns that it tends to provide, and silver to midcap mutual funds for the return kicker it is capable of providing during a bull market in commodities. Do watch this interview to learn more about the benefits of investing in precious metals.

Supertech twin towers demolished: What about homebuyers

After a nine-year-long legal battle, the Supertech twin towers of Noida were razed to dust on 28th August. The towers, Ceyane and Apex, were taller than the Qutub Minar. 3,700 kg of explosives were used to demolish them. Watch the video to know why the twin towers were demolished and what will happen to the homebuyers.

Watch: Supertech twin towers in Noida demolished

The Supertech's twin towers were demolished on Sunday as the nearly 100-metre-tall structures, borne out of corruption, were razed to the ground in less than 15 seconds >

How HSRP helps prevent vehicle theft?

Data suggest, in 2021, alone, more than 36,000 motor vehicles were stolen in India. Absence of High-Security Registration Plates or HSRP was one of the most contributing factors. So how HSRP helps prevent vehicle theft?

Bilkis Bano case: A timeline of events

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from the Centre and the Gujarat government on a plea challenging the remission granted to 11 life convicts in the case of Bilkis Bano's gangrape and murder of her family members. The convicts walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy.

REITs offer real estate exposure in a liquid, transparent, and highly regulated form”

The first real estate investment trust, or REIT, listed on the exchanges in April 2019. That was Embassy Office Parks REIT. We have three listed REITs in our country so far. Perhaps if the pandemic had not intervened, we may have had more. In other words, this is still a nascent investment vehicle. To know more about it, Sanjay Kumar Singh of Business Standard spoke to Ritwik Bhattacharjee, Chief Investment Officer, Embassy Office Parks REIT. He says that if you're looking for a product that is liquid, has high corporate governance standards, makes a lot of disclosures, is tightly regulated, and offers the retail investor a mix of dividend yield and capital appreciation, a REIT is the product to go for.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4: Unboxing of premium clamshell design-based phone

Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 processor, the Galaxy Z Flip 4 brings a higher capacity battery of 3700mAh over the predecessor.