By results, the reference is to just one thing - quality of life. The voter wants to know exactly what this government will do for him/her, in real terms. No more bhashans, no empty promises, no fake assurances.

Kapil Sibal, your new government is committed to affirmative action for the historically disadvantaged. This can be an excellent launching pad for school vouchers.

Both ladies are media savvy — they have perfected their sound bites. Their lives are not all that dissimilar — they make headlines for the wrong reasons.

Change will not occur with the speed and thoroughness that is deemed ideal unless we accelerate the process through forceful and specific interventions.

After keeping the country under a 40-day lockdown to arrest the spread of coronavirus, the government extended the lockdown till May 17 with a slew of relaxations to the unaffected areas in order to kick-start economic activity.

The official said the government would try to swiftly address supply chain hurdles, which some fear could leave retailers without stock as wholesalers in many parts of the country are unable to resume activity.

For the manufacturing sector - domestic demand, expensive credit, cash-strapped MSMEs, high cost of setting-up and automation are the big areas of concern. Industry veterans suggest that the only way to revive demand is for the government to keep to its spending targets and streamline policies and processes.

The grim result for the industry, the engine of growth, underlines the pandemic's impact.

Kerala govt report estimates a loss of about Rs 80,000 crore in GVA to the Kerala economy in Q1 (Apr-Jun) of 2020. For March, the shortfall in GVA could have been roughly Rs 29,000 crore. The direct and indirect losses in gross state value addition (GSVA), based on an input-output model, is estimated to be 10% in 2019-20 and 20% in 2020-21.

The May 5-7 poll median of more than 40 economists predicted India's annual consumer price inflation fell to 5.68% in April from March's 5.91%, still above the Reserve Bank of India's medium-term target of 4.00%.

The agency says prospects of further reforms to support business have diminished.

A CTO, or chief technology officer, evaluates short- and long-term organizational needs, and makes capital investments in technology to help that organization reach its business goals. It’s the highest executive position for technology in a company, and it’s a strategic role. That does not mean, however, that it’s a stagnant one. Learning is very much […]

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Every company wants to give its developers the right training. One of the easiest (and quite logical) ways to do this to make sure the training is on the right technologies. Nobody wants to miss out on their day-to-day project work to learn about outdated languages or libraries. Worse yet is having to take training […]

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In 2018, industry research firm Gartner made a rather disheartening prediction: Some 85 percent of AI projects are doomed to failure. Wow. That’s a lot. Keep that number at the back of your mind. Now consider how many questions an organization must answer when it comes to this kind of project implementation: Do we have […]

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DevSecOps gets a lot of industry attention, but inside most companies the reaction – and adoption – is a bit more muted. DevOps, by comparison, is widely accepted in application development. For instance, 85% of respondents in Deloitte’s 2019 future of cyber survey of C-suite executives with security responsibilities said they use DevOps practices. DevSecOps, […]

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As far as the general marketplace is concerned, Uber and Lyft are competitors who do the exact same thing. But for technologists, the two companies approach development, infrastructure and technology in distinctly different ways. Their strategies provide a series of lessons for organizations on why technology deserves a personalized touch when it comes to driving […]

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I probably don’t need to tell you that if you want to make it easier marketing yourself as a strong front-end web developer, it's important to learn React. No, it’s not absolutely crucial, nor is it required. But React is undoubtedly the most important UI library in the front-end landscape in 2019 and it’s not going away anytime soon.

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I’ve been coding websites for a long time but even I was a little puzzled when I came across a Hacker News comment where the commenter described their own makeshift CMS that involves using your own file system. The most interesting part to me was when the person said they add CSS to pages on their personal projects by means of HTTP headers.

I had heard of this technique before and the person does say in the comment that this doesn’t work in every browser. But I decided to do some research to figure out how one might do this and why this would be easier than just dropping in one or more <link> elements in the HTML.

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