How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The Big Boys
It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200m+ monthly active users, and 600bn messages – but Hike’s growth is impressive when you consider it's 4 months old.
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Wed Your Rapist? Indian Women on Trial
As India soul searches after a spate of horrifying sexual assaults, prominent lawyers, women's advocates and even judges say that sexist views among some judges thwart justice.
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Australian jailed over Indian student murder
Man who raped and strangled his neighbour in Sydney boarding house, then threw body into a canal, sentenced to 45 years.
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India Ink: Why Indian Elites Like to Call Themselves ‘Middle Class’
Policies for the so-called middle class end up benefiting the rich at the expense of the poor, the author argues.
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India Ink: A Conversation With: Cricket Board Official Niranjan R. Shah
Mr. Shah on the recent spot-fixing scandal, the state of Indian cricket and more.
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