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US sparks off a race to weaponise space

India, Sept. 17 -- Washington has now said, more plainlythan ever, that it has weapons in orbit, describing them only as "space control" weapons for defending American forces andsaying no more. Satell... Read More


Free launches, no free lunches

India, Sept. 16 -- Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has a rightful claim to be in an elite club of game changing financial innovations in India. It took digital payments from point-of-sale machines in... Read More


A growing threatin the Himalayas

India, Sept. 16 -- The recent Nepal flash floods, like the 2023 Sikkim flash floods, underline the vulnerability of Himalayan ecosystems to melting glaciers,as anthropogenic warming of the planet gath... Read More


Brace for inflation and rate hikes

India, Sept. 15 -- India's retail and wholesale inflation prints for August were largely on expected lines; at the cusp of 5% and 10% respectively. On a standalone basis, the inflation numbers are not... Read More


A growing threat in the Himalayas

India, Sept. 15 -- The recent Nepal flash floods, like the 2023 Sikkim flash floods, underline the vulnerability of Himalayan ecosystems to melting glaciers, as anthropogenic warming of the planet gat... Read More


UCC vision needs careful thought

India, Sept. 15 -- Thirty years ago, the BJP first included the promise of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in its election manifesto, giving it pride of place among its ideological troika - the other two b... Read More


Two sides to China's open AI proposal

India, Sept. 15 -- AI's global architecture has settled into a duopoly: closed models from a handful of American firms on one side, Chinese open-weight labs backed by the State and industrial prioriti... Read More


Two sides to China's open AI proposal

India, Sept. 14 -- AI's global architecture has settled into a duopoly: closed models from a handful of American firms on one side, Chinese open-weight labs backed by the State and industrial prioriti... Read More


UCC vision needs careful thought

India, Sept. 14 -- Thirty years ago, the BJP first included the promise of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in its election manifesto, giving it pride of place among its ideological troika - the other two b... Read More


BRICS uses a unity-in-diversity template

India, Sept. 14 -- 'Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur,' said Sallust, the renowned Latin historian and one of the political partisans of Julius Caesar. What was achieved in N... Read More