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If the Covid-19 surge in the national capital, and likely elsewhere, is indeed linked to higher infectivity of mutant SARS CoV-2 strains in...
By Anusha Chari & Amiyatosh Purnanandam The failure of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) in September 2019 shone a light on the...
Vidyakul, an online school offering vernacular learning to students from lower-income households, wants to be the ‘Unacademy for Bharat’.
The future of Rebel Foods and its numerous dark kitchens is bright, courtesy technology. Working with AWS, the online restaurant company has built...
Visibility has rarely been as hazy as it is today for India’s economic policy makers. Monthly indicators such as industrial output and consumer...
Jaipur-based Kirana King is a Retail as a Service platform that helps small retailers and kirana store operators to manage inventory, find the...
In this week’s Product Roadmap we feature ShareChat, one of India’s newest unicorns. Here’s the story of how technology helped the...
According to the CSET report on 'Mapping India's AI potential', there were 10 times as many AI patent applications in India in 2018 as compared to...
From digital change to Digital India, these quotes from the week of April 5-11 capture tech impacts sweeping across the world.
Trishneet Arora founded TAC Security at the age of 19. It is a cybersecurity startup that is on a mission to secure cyberspace and become the...
The nation is celebrating the 130th birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar. His role as a social reformer, chairman of the draft committee of the Indian...
Legitimate order signified by the symbolic presence of security forces is the essence of state-ness. As such, the fact that the Central Industrial...
Almost three months after launching its Covid vaccination programme, India has managed to fully inoculate barely 1 per cent of its population. Even...
The Baisakhi celebrations of wheat farmers of Punjab have been dampened this season. The delay in the harvest of the rabi crop that is still...
The ease and speed with which cyberweapons can be recycled heighten risks in ways that are incomparable to other domains of conflict. As...
The latest surge of the coronavirus is proving to be far more challenging for the health authorities than the previous spreads. All having lulled...
Yogendra Yadav President, Swaraj India We Indians have a way of belittling our icons. We turn Gandhi into a naive saint, a harmless preacher of...
We need to be in a better position to do our homework and genuinely assess the environmental impact of digital technologies, including AI. We are in...
‘Bola baccha dekh kar masjid aalishaan/ Allah tere rahne ko itna bada makaan!’ --Nida Fazli (Seeing a grand mosque, a surprised child exclaimed/...
My father would have turned one hundred years old on November 17, 2020, had he been alive. But he would have been distressed at not being able to...
By describing refugees from Myanmar as “migrants”, a deliberate attempt is being made to obfuscate the issue and avoid taking responsibility for...
You just got married and you’re ready to move out of your one-room bachelorette into a proper dream house. You and the love of your life start...
Jayadeva Ranade President, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy China’s recently concluded national-level meetings, held in Beijing in March...
R Kumar President, Society for Promotion of Ethical and Affordable HealthCare Viruses undergo habitual mutation and coronavirus is no exception....
Parladh Randhawa I just saw a tweet from somebody who is fed up with the theft of flowers grown by him in pots, by strangers for use as offerings...
By Abrar Yousuf Mir Currently, the whole world is dealing with one of the most severe pandemics ever seen in history, the first case of which was...
Overheard, a conversation between two coronaviruses. 1st virus: Now we’re being accused of coming back in a second wave, nastier and meaner than...
In 2019, across the world, 144 million children under the age of 5 were stunted and 47 million suffered from wasting, as per Unicef data. The...
While a lockdown in Maharashtra increasingly looks a certainty, one in Delhi cannot be ruled out either. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has said...
Centre’s decision to fast track approvals for vaccines used in other countries is a welcome rethink that recognises the sheer magnitude of the...
By Vikram Gupta, Alka Goel and Malay Krishna While the Covid pandemic has had a significant negative impact on global health, economy and society,...
Emerging economies struggled to grow through the 2010s, and pessimism shrouds them now. People wonder how they will pay debts rung up during the...
The United States of America has always basked in its bluntness and candour. However, what it did recently is something of an “achievement” even...
The National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2020 (NCAHP) was passed by Parliament in March. It’s a historic event for two...
It is a moment of awakening, as we are still suffering a pandemic that made “digital” the daily real — exposing divides and flaws, glitches and...
मुख्य नीतिगत ब्याज दर को लेकर हर दूसरे महीने रिजर्व बैंक...
Anup Taneja A striking feature of Ramana Maharshi’s teachings is that they have a strong rational appeal because his realisation, being based on...
By Pranav Khullar Even as Mulk Raj Anand was etching out the character of Bakha, the untouchable boy, and articulating the exploitation of the less...
Decoupling, like sanctions as a geopolitical tool, can be a substitute for outright conflict, and this has started a controversy that is likely to...
GK: Is fasting possible for a diabetic? Prof Laway: Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan forms one of the five pillars of the Muslim faith....
If the last 10 years give any indication of how the next ten years will unfold, I predict there will be strong and brutal opposition to the...
During fasting hours when no food or drink is consumed, the body uses its stores of carbohydrate (stored in the liver and muscles) and fat to...
Once again, the pandemic is set to turn the entire healthcare system of Kashmir into a COVID19 management ward. Hospital after hospital will close...
A year ago when outbreak of coronavirus hit countries across the globe, lockdowns were imposed as the only way out to fight the onslaught of the...
“Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind...
Nature is the fountainhead of beauty and solace. It soothes the heart, mind and soul; it refreshes with vigour and vitality. Nature is a best...
Today is the first day of this year’s Ramadhan – the months of fasting. An entirely different atmosphere is witnessed in the Muslim societies...
In order to safeguard against function creep, governments and platforms must be transparent about how and where automated tools are used. In a year...