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.

God they say is in the detail and he who has mastered the art of focusing on the minutest details, has mastered the art of blocking out the unpleasant...

Nobody can predict if even the modest normalization of the economy will last. With nearly 43,000 Covid-19 cases and the number doubling every 12 days, the country is still struggling to flatten the curve — even with the lockdown. If loosening leads to new infections in green zones, they could slip into orange. Community outbreaks can quickly turn orange districts into red.

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.

Moody's had, in November 2019, downgraded India's outlook to negative from stable on concerns of lower economic growth. The agency had, however, affirmed country's 'Baa2' rating. In its update to the November forecast released on Friday, the agency said India's credit profile is supported by its large and diverse economy, and stable domestic financing base.

We have no shortage of sayings about the primacy of money. “Money talks”. “Show me the money”. “Put your money where your mouth is”. But we sometimes overestimate money’s importance relative to many other things. This can be especially true when it comes to working and choosing which job to take. When it comes to […]

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Front-end development is defined, by Wikipedia, as the “practice of producing HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a website or web application so that a user can see and interact with them directly.” Most people can make sense of basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and that used to be enough). But in the last 5-10 years, […]

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The importance of data, it’s measurement and use in making more effective business decisions is now universally accepted across almost every industry. The training industry, however, still lags in its efforts to measure workforce development investments. Unfortunately, there are no universal standards or metrics with which to measure how well people learn, and the common […]

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In a recent issue of my newsletter, I briefly discussed many (if not all?) of the different ways you can retrieve a DOM element's dimensions via JavaScript.

These include getBoundingClientRect()'s width and height properties, offsetWidth and offsetHeight, window.getComputedStyle(), the document.styleSheets object, and scrollWidth and scrollHeight.

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Back in 2011, Paul Irish posted his personal list of frontend RSS feeds for front-end web developers. It was a great list, but after some time it needed some refreshing.

In 2014 I published my own list of categorized feeds for front-end developers. I cleaned up Paul's feed list quite a bit and added some new feeds, while splitting the feed up into manageable categories.

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