2020

First official music chart, 2020 growth, streaming service subscriptions: The good, bad and neutral for Indian music biz

The IMI has unveiled India’s first official music chart, which somewhat ironically is a top 20 that ranks the most popular international singles in our country based on streams from three foreign services — Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Prime Music.

SSC postpones Combined Graduate Level (CGL) exams due to surge in COVID-19 cases

The exam will be held to fill up various Group ‘B’ and Group ‘C’ posts in different Ministries, Departments, and Organisations

'Be ready to sacrifice your standing crop,' BKU leader Rakesh Tikait tells farmers

Tikait said the government should not be under the impression that the movement against the laws will end as farmers will go to their villages to harvest their crop

Karnataka HC restrains centre, NIC from sharing Aarogya Setu app data without user consent

The High Court also ordered that the central government can not deny any benefit or services to a user only on the ground that the user has not installed Aarogya Setu.

How gaming made 2020 a tiny bit more tolerable: A short story

This January, as I pondered the new direction my gaming was taking, what I hadn’t factored in was 2020, what an absolute stinker it was going to be, and how gaming would make the year (ever-so-slightly) more tolerable.

2020 for India was the eight warmest year since 1901, much lower than the highest temperature in 2016: IMD

The IMD also said extreme weather conditions led to the death of more than 1,565 people last year with thunderstorm and lightning claiming the lives of 815 of them.

The 'Friday' List: From the end of Margazhi to a virtual Victorian walkthrough in Kolkata, a pick of events for the first week of the new year

This week, we bring to you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your calendar for the start of the new year.

2020, the year of 'unprecedented' screen time: A detailed survey on content watching patterns during the pandemic

Firstpost tied up with YouGov, an international research data and analytics group, to help understand what Indians watched in 2020 and if there are any worthy content patterns.

2020 was a year that went by looking at the phone, but it also made me more resilient, writes Namit Das

"I know that there is something inside me that has changed forever. It isn’t spiritual. I think that change is more practical."

Virtual fatigue, virtual joy: In 2020, the screen was a door that opened onto experiences both welcome and exhausting

2020 is the year we lost. For those lucky enough to stay inside, it has been a year of diminished experiences.