Representative Image Digital healthcare platform Practo has partnered with diagnostic lab chain Thyrocare to conduct Covid-19 detection tests authorised by the government and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Starting Saturday, the test is available for Mumbai residents for Rs 4,500, and will soon be expanded to the rest of the country, Practo said. […]

Ride-hailing major Ola has launched a fund to support auto-rickshaw, cab, Kaali-Peeli and taxi drivers across India amid the ongoing 21-day lockdown. Besides, Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal will forgo salary for one year that will go towards the fund. Launched under Ola Foundation, the ‘Drive the Driver Fund’ will support the drivers through contributions from […]

A team of experts is busy enhancing the visual quality of Ramanand Sagar’s television serial Ramayan, which is set to be telecast on Doordarshan (DD) after more than three decades, along with other popular classics such as BR Chopra’s Mahabharat, as part of a special initiative by Prasar Bharati during the nationwide lockdown. Detective series […]

By Ellen Huet WeWork executives used to obsess over the number of people they could pack into each of the company’s shared workspaces. They said a more crowded office helped make the space feel active and spark collaboration when desk mates slid past each other in the hallways. The technique had an added benefit of […]

Online retailers, sellers, takeout joints have started facing shortages of packaging material like boxes, tapes, labels, cartons among others—all critical for doorstep delivery of essentials. The packaging supply chain for has come to a complete halt as India stopped imports from China—a major hub for plastics—and local manufacturers struggle with permissions to operate under a […]

China’s Tencent Holdings launched a co-innovation lab with Huawei to develop a cloud game platform, the world’s biggest game company said in a statement Friday. The collaboration will tap the computing power of Huawei’s Kunpeng processor to build Tencent’s GameMatrix cloud game platform, and the two sides will explore more possibilities in areas such as […]

HOOQ was started as a joint venture in 2015 between Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros Entertainment. But it has failed to make major gains as larger rivals such as Netflix expanded in the region.Reuters  |  March 27, 2020, 15:58 IST

A growing number of hotels and shared-living facilities are being earmarked as potential venues for quarantine and care of the sick, or for accommodating healthcare workers, as efforts intensify to contain the spread of the new coronavirus infection. While some of these companies have been asked to do so by state authorities, the others are […]

Even as police authorities moved across top metros like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru to issue “curfew passes” to delivery agents of services like Bigbasket, Grofers, Flipkart and 1mg, the companies are still facing issues in taking new orders and fulfilling existing backlog. The reason? A large number of the migrant delivery workforce is afraid of […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Swiggy’s operations may have been disrupted since the ‘Janta Curfew’ was announced on Sunday. But the online food delivery company has said it is willing to start delivering groceries in up to 150 top cities across the country if the supply chain starts opening up. Swiggy currently delivers food from restaurants, but […]