An Indian journalist live-tweeted his deteriorating condition as he sought COVID-19 treatment. Vinay Srivastava tried several hospitals, but died on Saturday without medical attention. It came amid dire India’s COVID-19 crisis, where there are up to 250,000 new infections a day. See more stories on Insider’s business page. A journalist […]

Fiona Mozley’s debut novel, “Elmet,” shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, was a brilliant book with a savage energy, told by a single, captivating first-person narrator. Her follow-up, “Hot Stew” (Algonquin, 320 pp., ★★★ stars out of four), exhibits an entirely different skill set. Mozley leaves the rural landscape of […]

There seems to be no dearth of funds to fuel this growth, report Peerzada Abrar and Shivani Shinde. The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated the pace of start-ups joining the ‘unicorn’ club, with as many as 10 companies crossing the $1-billion valuation mark this year. Six of them have […]

The country’s cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global ‘data scraping’ incident in the social media platform affected about 61 lakh Indians. “As the Facebook platform evolves and grows, parts of your account could be public. Data could also […]

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Japanese businessmen in their 40s, 50s and 60s who had little interest in cosmetics before the pandemic are increasingly visiting Tezuka's salon, Ikemen-Works, hoping for a better look in online meetings. A large personal care company, Shiseido, says one of its male makeup lines has seen double-digit growth during the […]

A testing and quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand launched with lopsided demand, according to airlines and data firms. The initial results from Asia's first restriction-free travel bubble since the pandemic hit showed that travel patterns can depart from their norms after such a long closure and may […]