The Himalaya’s vanishing snow?

Though it’s finally snowing heavily in Uttarakhand, white mountaintops in winters are no longer guaranteed. Because two major weather systems, monsoon and Western Disturbance, have changed behaviour The Himalayan region, encompassing the river systems of the mighty Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra, contains over 42,000 km 2 of areas covered by glaciers and nearly 1.6mn km…

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Dhaka’s Loss

Bangladesh’s cricketers are stuck in the middle of a fight created by cricket officials, not by the players. Just before the T20 World Cup (starting in India on February 7), the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) asked the world cricket body, the ICC, to move Bangladesh’s matches from India to Sri Lanka. The ICC said no….

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Guru that Subhas would have accepted

By Anshul Chaturvedi “A relative of mine, who was a newcomer to the town, was living next door and I had to visit him. Glancing over his books, i came across the works of Swami Vivekananda. I had hardly turned over a few pages when I realised that here was something which i had been…

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On the cards

Colourful stories behind playful Kings, Queens, Knaves Though the country derecognised princes in 1971, millions of Indians continue to hobnob with royalty. Chances are that you too have met King David of Israel, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne.You’ve also come across Pallas Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of learning,…

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Message from markets

Wars hurt investors in short term, uncertainty is always bad. US is threatening one & creating the other Two out of every three Americans are invested in the stock market, and the last thing they need is a president who plays fast and loose with it. But they’ve had one for a year, with three…

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Marketing with Generative AI (use cases)

Large language models are powerful. They are omniscient and omnipresent. Technical capabilities alone are not use cases. Capabilities need to be mapped to business challenges and requirements to form a use case that is worthy of investment, solution, and user adoption. How would you design use cases of generative AI for the marketing function? That’s…

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