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Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal's move to donate all his employee stock option plan (ESOP) proceeds worth Rs. 700 crore to aid its delivery workers has been called "a ploy to divert attention" from the recent worker protests by a Telangana-based workers' union. The union said it was an attempt by the executive "to save the tarnished image" of the food delivery company. Goyal informed Zomato employees about the update through an internal announcement last week.The Zomato executive said in the announcement on Friday, a copy of…

The first time most of us heard of the Smile was a year ago, when the band debuted at Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, alongside Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinnner, delivering an enjoyably punchy performance. Away from Radiohead, both Yorke and Greenwood’s work has tended to the austere, whether electronic or classical, so it was a joy to hear them let loose on spiky post-punk tracks such as You Will Never Work in Television Again.As with Radiohead’s last album, 2016’s A Moon…

As with any side-project or solo album by a member of a celebrated band, the first question prompted by the Smile’s debut is: why? There are plenty of reasonable stock answers: an opportunity to do something entirely different; a surfeit of material that either couldn’t be fitted into the schedule of a major band or was perhaps received with something less than enthusiasm by its other members; an invigorating chance to play with different musicians. These are categories that virtually every Radiohead offshoot thus far…

When you think of solar energy, you probably picture the photovoltaic panels that capture sunlight to be converted to electricity. But there are other ways to harness the sun’s power. One method attracting growing interest is called concentrated solar-thermal power, or CSP, which uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate the sun’s energy. CSP has been held back by technical challenges and a shortage of funding and government incentives compared with other sources of renewable energy. But as the sense of urgency about…