High-flying tech hits potholes in India’s Silicon Valley
In India’s tech capital Bengaluru, the morning “rush hour” lasts so long it devours half the workday, throttling productivity in a city often viewed as the poster child of a booming economy. Entrepreneur RK Misra, co-founder of a multimillion-dollar start-up, avoids scheduling in-person meetings until nearly noon — then squeezes them in before gridlock returns. […]
India train crash: Investigation into deadly rail disaster begins as services resume
Rail services have resumed over a stretch of the railway network in eastern India where a train crash killed 275 people – as an investigation into the disaster began. Around 1,200 people were also injured in Friday’s rail crash – India’s worst for more than two decades, which has been blamed on a signaling failure. […]