August 2024

DailyPost 2897 BCG’s ANGOLA BRIBE SCANDAL Boston Consulting Group, BCG, is one of the famous ‘Big Three’ which are considered to be the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world. They work closely with clients facilitating transformational approaches for organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage and drive positive societal impact. Presumably, they would […]

DailyPost 2896 MALAYALAM FILM INDUSTRY That reeking amount of muck can remain under wraps for a stinkingly long period of time, with celebrities operating it, in a creative industry, which made waves across the world by its cinematic productions, has left us in shivers as to how far we can live from reality while living

DailyPost 2895 AMD HACKED AGAIN – CHIPMAKER IN THE DOCK? Getting hacked twice in a span of three months cannot bring glory to any organization, more so if it happens to be a leading global chipmaker. The hackers have offered to sell data online. This is close on the heels of a similar breach in

DailyPost 2894 “PRESSURE COOKER” WORK CULTURE Far away from the world of work life balance, my-time / family time, of work with pleasure, working for passion and working on one’s terms and conditions, is an enterprise which boasts of “pressure cooker culture”. Why do we even want to discuss such an enterprise? It is all

DailyPost 2893 FREE FOR ALL – OPEN AI Founded in 2015 OpenAI had put its self proclaimed mission and mandate of building safe and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence, AGI. OpenAI started as a non-profit company and later in 2019 OpenAI Global, LLC, became its for-profit subsidiary. Though a couple of successes came its way, there

DailyPost 2892 THE FLAILING JAIL ADMINISTRATION In the last few years, not jailbreaks, but comforts in the jails have been catching attention and rightly. Does that speak of the flailing jail administration in the last decade or so or it has been all along but has come out in the open only now. Might be

DailyPost 2891 TAXED TO SUFFER! Is ‘taxed to suffer’ the true antithesis of a welfare state. A welfare state in its purest form takes care of at least the basic necessities of every citizen in the country. The first principle of public finance taught to every single new entrant to the civil service is to

DailyPost 2890 HAS DOCTORS STRIKE / CAUSE REACHED A DEAD END? Have we reached the post-governance age of Indian democracy? In this age the fruits of political / bureaucratic or any power emanating out of official position is to be exploited to the hilt, for personal gains. It is in continuation of election manifestos having

DailyPost 2889 US OILFIELD FIRM HACKED Critical infrastructure remains a sweet spot for the hackers, more so of the ransomware genre for the impact it makes & and money it generates. Energy remains the top concern for all nations and a spoke in its production, distribution and availability as a mass scale has the possibility

DailyPost 2888 IS IT THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE EXECUTIVE… Is executive an enterprise to provide day to day utilities, small and big, to provide necessary approvals / licenses, to make the polices as mandated by the legislature, run welfare schemes, execute beneficiary cash transfers and run administrative machinery at scale? This is

DailyPost 2887 IT’S RAINING HACKS – NOW MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY Hacks have become so common that it does not get a mention in the mainstream media. It is your baby and hence you are supposed to manage it. Rest is between your customers and your regulators. There are a variety of ways by which a hack