What Nintendo needs to keep hitting high score
Nintendo s game character Super Mario
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Jacky Wong
, The Wall Street Journal
The company looks set to surpass its last record earnings year in 2009 but the fact that that was so long ago holds some warnings for the future
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Nintendo has ridden the stay-at-home wave toward another high score, far exceeding market expectations. But if it doesn’t heed the lessons of its last record-breaking year over a decade ago, investors might need to wait a long time for the next adrenaline rush.
The Japanese game giant’s operating profit for the quarter ending in December almost doubled from a year earlier. That is even higher than the most bullish estimate on S&P Global Market Intelligence. It’s also within touching distance of its most profitable quarter ever in 2008, when its Wii and DS consoles were selling like hot cakes. The Covid-19 pandemic has driven stay-at-home demand for its Switch consoles
Sort data on violence against disabled girls, women separately: Rights activists
Demonstrators take part in a protest after the death of a rape victim
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. Updated: 22 Jan 2021, 04:52 PM IST PTI
The activists say that despite a large number of reported cases of sexual assaults on disabled girls and women, the NCRB does not maintain disaggregated data on such violence
They said this issue becomes all the more urgent as the country is witnessing a growing number of such cases
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Over 90 individuals, disability rights activists and organisations have written to Home Minister Amit Shah, urging him to ensure that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) maintains disaggregated data on violence against disabled girls and women.
Railways finalises tender for Vande Bharat train sets in ‘Make in India’ boost
A Vande Bharat Express
The procurement includes a five-year comprehensive annual maintenance contract with the supplier
For the first time, the tender required minimum 75% local content requirement of the total value of the tender
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The Indian Railways on Friday awarded Hyderabad-based Medha Servo Drives Pvt. Ltd a ₹2,211 crore tender for procurement of Vande Bharat Express or Train 18.
The contract includes designing and manufacturing propulsion, control and other equipment required for making 44 rakes of Vande Bharat-type train sets.
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Extent of damage due to fire at Pune plant is more than ₹1,000 cr: Serum CEO
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with SII CEO Adar Poonawalla
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The supply of Covid-19 vaccine will not be affected by the fire, says Adar Poonawalla
The production of BCG and Rota vaccines will suffer in the future due to the losses to the company site
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A day after a massive fire killed five people at vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India s (SII) site near Pune, the company s CEO Adar Poonawalla has said that damage of more than ₹1,000 crore was suffered by the unit.
India will produce surplus jabs in 6 months: Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys Ltd
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India has set a precedence in global vaccination efforts by digitizing the mass immunization programme for covid-19 and will produce more vaccines within six months to inoculate more people, the founding architect of Aadhaar, Nandan Nilekani, said at the Redseer Ground Zero 4.0 virtual event on Friday.
“India will be a role model in providing vaccination at scale with agility. It is one of the first countries to create and digitize a vaccine certification process, which will help the Indian population considerably, Nilekani said.