Most political parties have announced poll sops like free gas cylinders, pension to women, stipend to students and free electricity in the five election-bound states. This is set to put a heavy...

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In the era of knowledge workers and Artificial Intelligence, productivity is the key. Not long work hours

The larger conflict between people who view AI as the next El Dorado and those who view the developments in AI as a haphazard plunge into dangerous terrain impacting human safety has now bubbled up...

The Gujarat government wants to implement a new RFS system to allow plot buyers to carry out construction as per their preference as long as they comply with the regulations

If the West is indeed looking for wide-scale multilateral cooperation on issues surrounding AI, and this means including significant participation from developing nations, it must look to India

Though airlines have started picking up speed on the profit runway, low salaries and a demoralised key workforce remains barriers which the industry has to address quickly if it really wants to take...

Trends point to the emergence of big domestic manufacturing corporates that is being encouraged with measures such as import curbs, discriminatory practices against foreign firms , and arbitrary...

India’s labour force participation rate for women has declined progressively from 42.7 per cent in 2004-05 to 25.1 per cent in the pandemic year of 2021, although it has risen to 37 per cent in 2023

As New Delhi charts its course through these negotiations, it does so with an acute awareness of the delicate equilibrium between yielding immediate economic dividends and preserving long-term...

An experimental permission of dual usage – allowing transportation of passengers and freight - can pave the way for the future, helping urban mobility and augmenting incomes of auto drivers

COVID-19 killed 6.9 million people, and Disease X can have a much higher fatality rate. India's pandemic response suffered because of a lack of policy clarity, transparency, and accountability...

They may be transporting goods on the sly now but a clear Electric Vehicles commercial use policy can keep the air clean and cut down on unemployment

In its first report in April 2023, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs' high-level committee on urban planning proposed studying the feasibility of such a cadre. The Secretariat thinks up a...

Online payments are becoming ubiquitous. However, for the digital footprint to truly make inroads into Indian lifestyles, much more needs to take hold

The NYT wants to hold OpenAI and Microsoft accountable for billions of dollars in damages for using copyright material without authorisation. However, is the NYT's position tenable?

In the absence of any new tariff structure and regulatory norms, the state government continues to levy an additional fuel charge and electricity duty which make green energy more expensive than...

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Launched in 2003 on a modest note, the success of Vibrant Gujarat Summit echoes the rise in the state’s political and economic clout over the past two decades

The Indian Ocean is strategically important for most countries as 80 per cent of the world’s sea-borne oil and trade transits through this region

The EU has announced carbon tax could be levied on carbon-intensive imports from seven sectors – including steel, cement, fertiliser, aluminium and hydrocarbon products – from January 1, 2026

A closer scrutiny of data beyond the headline numbers suggests that the rich are getting richer at a pace much faster than the rate of progress in the economic conditions of the poor. India has a...