Should Cricketer 'Virat Kohli' Be Protected For Bigger Battles Instead Of Being Thrown Into Every Odd Skirmish?

By RAHUL SHRESTA | INNLIVE

The selectors are thinking of resting India's Test captain for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour, though he may not welcome the decision.

In the summer of 1998, Sachin Tendulkar couldn’t put a foot wrong. After a memorable Test series win against Australia at home, he was unstoppable in Sharjah in the Coca-Cola Cup, which Indian cricket fans know better as “Operation Desert Storm”. Tendulkar, who turned 25 that April, was already India’s best batsman, and most worshipped sportsman. Meanwhile in Delhi, a boy named Virat Kohli, all of nine, was awestruck by what he saw.

Terror Tactics: Why 'Saffron Terror' Is Not A Myth?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

By shielding Hindu terror suspects, the Modi government is making a big mistake. It should learn from Pakistan’s blunders.

The National Investigation Agency recently decided to drop all terror related charges against the 2008 Malegaon blast accused, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur. The decision of the NIA to overlook earlier findings of investigative agencies against Singh has been along predicted lines under the Narendra Modi regime.

'Muslims Won’t Be Swayed By Owaisi’s Oratory In Bihar'

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s recent decision to contest the Bihar assembly elections does not augur well for the Janata Dal (United)-Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress camp as his entry is bound to splinter the alliance’s Muslim vote bank. This announcement comes shortly after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav walked out of the “secular” grand alliance and tied up with the Nationalist Congress Party.

The 'Educop World' Management Scholarship 2016-17

SPONSORED POST: As part of The Educop World philanthropic activity, this year. we have decided to offer 10 scholarships of Rs.20,000/- each  to MBA students who are academically bright as well as financially needy, and is undertaking a specialization in 'Finance'.

We are partnering with the Higher Education Forum and they will be responsible for the implementation of the scheme. There will be two categories for the application of the scholarship:

Special Report: Three Major Takeaways From PM Modi’s 'Big Meeting' With 'Billionaires, Bankers And Babus'

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

New Delhi’s No. 7 Race Course Road—Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s official residence—today (Sept. 08) hosted some of the country’s most high-profile bankers, industrialists and policy makers.

Modi spent about three hours with the 40-member group, packed with cabinet ministers, key bureaucrats and bankers, corporate leaders and economists. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan, Reliance Industries’ chairman Mukesh Ambani, Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry and State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya were in attendance.

Meet Hardik Patel, Patidar Poster Boy, An Unplanned Man

By LIKHA VEER | INNLIVE

Nothing prepares you for the disappointment of meeting Hardik Patel, the 22-year-old leader of the Patidar reservation movement.

You go to meet him expecting an anti-reservation crusader, a fiery orator who plans to unite "27 crore" Patidars under his leadership and an ideologue keen to dismantle the existing caste-based quota system and replace it with a new idiom of social justice.

How Much In Web Traffic Changing The News You Read?

If you’ve ever thought that the quest for more clicks is affecting the sorts of articles that get published in the media, a renowned marketing professor Pinar Yildirim wants you to know that you’re right. But it’s not quite the overarching impact that you might expect.

In this interview with INNLIVE, she talks about a new paper, “Clicks and Editorial Decisions: How Does Popularity Shape Online News Coverage?” The paper, which was co-authored by Ananya Sen, a doctoral candidate in economics at the Toulouse School of Economics in France, teases out the differences in how high-traffic stories get treated in terms of longer-term coverage.

How Can Online Advertisers Get Most Mileage For Money?

Advertisers often use multiple publishers for their online campaigns, but may not use the best metrics to decide which ones they should compensate. Should companies compensate the publisher who showed the last ad to a consumer before a purchase? Or, should they pay publishers every time they show the ads to prospective consumers?

Research by marketing professor Ron Berman finds that the “last touch” or “last click” method advertisers typically employ to compensate publishers is the wrong way to go about it. Berman’s research shows that the “last click” method entails a moral hazard in driving “adverse selection,” where publishers show ads to consumers who would buy the product anyway.

News Analysis: Did 'Yaqub Memon' Make A 'Big Mistake' By Trusting Indian Investigators And Government?

The unfortunate Mumbai blast convict Yaqub Memon finally got rejection for his all pleas to live in this world and ordered to get hanged on his 'birthday' when he turns 53 years, the gnawing question that will continue to stare us in the face is not if he ever participated in the conspiracy and its execution, but if the Indian investigating agencies betrayed him and used his own evidence to hang him.

The moot point is certainly not about law, but about ethics. If the evidence, even voluntarily submitted by him, proves his criminality, he deserves punishment. But if he was duped into a sense of safety, it was unethical because it would have made him complacent and thereby denied himself a fair shot at the legal avenues.

'Financial Independence Is Key To Women Empowerment'

Prerana Langa is the founder of Yes Foundation, which works towards empowering India through innovative changes and social transformation. 

In a candid interview, Langa explains why financial confidence is central to women empowerment and shares her experience as a single woman.

Langa also reflects on gender bias at the workplace and women's abilities in a professional world.

She invited the women organizations to join her movement and get the financial freedom with her unique programs. 

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New Robot Journalists: ‘Quakebot’ Is Just The Beginning!

By Sarah Williams
Group Regional Editor - USA

EXCLUSIVE: When an earthquake hit Los Angeles recently, Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was first to get the news out. Woken up by the tremors at 6:25 a.m. on Monday, March 17, he went to his computer and found a brief story already waiting, courtesy of a robot — an algorithm he developed and named Quakebot.

Quakebot’s role in the swift reporting of the earthquake story has industry observers talking about the role of robots in the future of journalism. Among those at the forefront of robot journalism is Noam Lemelshtrich Latar, dean of the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.

Opinion: What’s Holding Back Affordable Housing In India

By Likha Veer
Group Executive Editor

INTERVIEW: India needs more than five million homes annually and more than 90% of this demand is in the affordable segment — homes priced at less than $50,000. But supply is lagging. Rajesh Krishnan, founder and CEO of the Brick Eagle Group, a financial services platform for affordable housing, says the disparity between supply and demand is because of a broken ecosystem. According to him, everybody in the affordable housing value chain “seems to be missing some piece of the puzzle.”

In a conversation with INNLIVE, Krishnan talks about his prescription for affordable housing in India. He points out that along with being a pressing social need, it is also a $100 billion market opportunity. “We are making investments across the value chain so that we can take it from start to finish.”

OpEd: Why Do Indians Show Sympathy For 'Rule-Breakers'

By Dr.Shelly Ahmed

From businessman Rajat Gupta to the Vyapam suspects, the public often views wrongdoers as victims.

Discussing Madhya Pradesh’s Vyapam scandal, which began with students hiring proxies and bribing exam invigilators, a friend reminded me of the case of Ashwini Gupta. On April 9, 1935, Gupta, then a young professor in Calcutta’s Ripon College, took leave from work pleading ill health, and instead sat for a BA economics exam under the name of a student he tutored privately called Samaresh Mukherjee. 

Gupta’s ruse was discovered, he was soon arrested, and in December that year sentenced by a magistrate to six months hard labour.

The Blood-Soaked Trail Of India’s Massive 'Vyapam Scam'

By Radha Misra

BURNING TOPIC: A massive scam worth some Rs.6,300 crore is unfolding in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. While shady deals aren’t exactly unusual in Asia’s third largest economy, the Vyapam scam—or the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board scam—is getting murkier and scarier by the day.

Since 2007, thousands of applicants in Madhya Pradesh have allegedly paid bribes to manipulate examination results for government jobs and medical colleges, according to police. A number of government officials, businessmen and politicians are currently serving jail terms. The total arrests in the case exceeds 1,900.

The Challenges Of Caregiving For 'Alzheimer's Patients'

By Dr.Sumitra Shah

With an estimated four million registered cases of Alzheimer's disease, are families in India equipped to deal with dementia patients? What does it take to be a caregiver to someone with Alzheimer's? 

Are we aware of this pressing problem and how to diagnose it? INNLIVE talks to caregivers and experts to get some answers.

1. Sometime in 2005 – nobody's sure when – Savitri Joglekar strolled out of her home in Ratnagiri. She was found 10 years later in an Amritsar ashram, 2,000 km away from her village.

2. On the evening of December 12, 2008, Vijaya Patil was traced to Gorai jetty, 12 hours after she disappeared from her brother's flat in Bandra.

Review: TV Serial 'Reporters' On Sony TV Making Waves

By Nishi Khan in Mumbai

Indian television has always struggled with content, especially when it comes to daily shows. This has been the principle reason it was imperative to wait for Sony's 'Reporters' to cross the 50 episode mark to review it. The content has been engrossing and the pace, delightful right from the beginning but the real challenge was to sustain both of these over a period of time.

The show proved it was indeed possible as it completed half century last week on a high note. Not only has the pace been maintained but the content has been consistently evolving. The script and screenplay seem tightly knitted together with no scope for any squeezing- in of a redundant scene whatsoever.

Star Interview: Am Open To 'Arranged Marriage' With Any 'Indian Intelligent Girl': Superstar Salman Khan

By Nishi Khan in Mumbai

He is irreverent and witty with a wry sense of humour. Just when you think he is seriously giving you an answer, he will crack a joke and take you unawares. He confesses the reality of his age, family, personal life and loneliness. Whether it is his film Sultan clashing with Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees (which he feels is the best thing to happen), or reuniting with Sooraj Barjatya (he confesses it was difficult), Bollywood Super star, Dabanng actor Salman Khan tells it like it is. 

In this freewheeling interview to INNLIVE, the superstar talks about everything from his upcoming Bajrangi Bhaijaan to his views on arranged marriage and many more interesting things of his life and activities. Excerpts:

Focus: Fitbit 'Fitness Wearable' Are Coming To India Soon!

INNLIVE Media Team

The world’s largest wearables company is coming to India. San Francisco-headquartered Fitbit will partner with e-commerce firm Amazon to offer four types of wearable bands to help Indian consumers track their fitness. These devices will be available through a Fitbit store on Amazon’s India website from July 1.

“We are establishing an Indian entity and the first employees will be joining soon,” Steve Morley, vice-president and general manager Asia Pacific for Fitbit, told INNLIVE.

Existential Crisis: 'I Sacrificed Everything - Health, Wealth And Teenage To Study At IITs - But Why It's Not Worthy?'

By Ananya Rathi in Mumbai

In eighth standard, I volunteered to revise one of the Anglo-Indian battles for the class. Using the blackboard, I described the various players and events of the battle in great detail, making up for my faltering English with infectious enthusiasm.

Impressed, my class teacher asked me, “So what have you finally decided? Who do you want to be: a cardiologist, a historian or a scientist?” Those days I used to proudly proclaim that I wished to be a cardiologist, primarily because my doctor parents used to tell me that it was the hottest specialisation in medicine. Excited by my teacher’s praise, I went to my father and told him about it. It brought a proud smile on his face and he said, “Tell her you want to become an IITian.”

Superstar Salman Khan: 'Why Would I Go to Hollywood?'

Weeks before he was convicted in a widely publicized trial for allegedly running over pavement dwellers while intoxicated, Bollywood actor Salman Khan freewheeled with INNLIVE on the sidelines of a movie set on early disappointment, dealing with rejection and his approach to painting. The case has gone into appeal to a higher court. The following are excerpts from the interview.

Your father Salim Khan says one won't catch you doing anything but acting. How do you respond?
What you see is what I am. I cry and laugh on screen as I would in real life. I never play character roles like that of a 60-year-old man or a local Indian with a Bhojpuri accent. I don't do things that alienate the broader audience, so it has to be homogeneous but basic and simple.