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The Union Budget sparked anger in Kerala over the Centre’s “continued neglect” of the State on the fiscal front. For some time now, there has been deepening distrust between Left Front-ruled Kerala and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre in the financial realm. The Kerala government has repeatedly accused the Centre of … Read more
The Biden-Harris administration unveiled a flurry of policies in their last week in office. The most extraordinary among them is the Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Diffusion. It has many goals: preserving U.S. hegemony in AI technology, balancing innovation and national security, and deterring U.S. adversaries from harvesting the strategic rewards of AI. These goals … Read more
Around eight years since the judgment of the Supreme Court of India, in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd) vs Union Of India, upholding the fundamental right to privacy, the state of privacy law in India remains in limbo. Despite the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) having been notified in August 2023, its provisions remain inoperative … Read more
Cassettes and an audio player. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Recently, the Official Charts of the U.K. published on its website the best sold audio cassettes of 2024. It reveals that the highest selling album of the previous year was Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet followed by Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism and Taylor Swift’s The … Read more
Rahul Gandhi placing an urn containing the ashes of Rajiv Gandhi on a special train at the New Delhi railway station in 1991. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi immersing the ashes of their father, Rajiv Gandhi, in the Sangam at Allahabad. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives For decades, this … Read more
Aero India 2025, which is being held at the Indian Air Force station at Yelahanka in Bengaluru (February 10-14), is more than just an exhibition. It is a platform for innovation, strategic alliances, and technological advancement. The edition this year promises to redefine the standards of aerospace expositions and elevate India’s global presence in the … Read more
The Budget 2025-26 announcements suggest a potential bonanza for scientific research and development. The Finance Minister outlined ₹20,000 crore budgetary support for developing small modular reactors, with the goal of readying five such reactors by 2033. Another major initiative is the Research, Development, and Innovation fund, included in the Department of Science and Technology (DST)’s … Read more
Venue for an upcoming AI Action Summit, in Paris. | Photo Credit: AP In early January, India accepted France’s invitation to co-chair the AI Action Summit on February 10 and 11 in Paris. This summit will be the third of its kind, following meetings focussed on AI safety in the U.K. (2023) and South Korea … Read more
The present period is proving to be an unpredictable one for most parts of the world. Violence is raging across parts of Europe and in West Asia, while several other regions are facing internecine conflicts to varying degrees. At the risk of repetition, it can be said that the world order after 1945 has broken … Read more
The outcome of the Delhi Assembly elections is less about the expansion of the BJP and more about the dramatic collapse of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The BJP has returned to power after over 26 years, while the AAP, a political force that rose spectacularly in 2013, has been swept away. However, this shift … Read more