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Caste alignments sharpen in BJP with eye on 2027 Uttar Pradesh polls

Lucknow, Aug. 30 -- Caste alignments within the ruling BJP are beginning to sharpen with an eye on the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls as ministers and MLAs increasingly seek to consolidate their ba... Read More


Escaping the middle-income trap - Ahmad Ibrahim

Kuala Lampur, Aug. 30 -- The spectre of the "middle-income trap" haunts many nations. Having clawed their way out of poverty through grit and low-cost manufacturing, they find progress stalling. Wag... Read More


PM Modi lands in China after gap of 7 years | SCO summit on agenda; talks with Xi and Putin lined up

Tianjin, Aug. 30 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in this Chinese city on Saturday evening, where he will attend the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. He will also hold meetin... Read More


A Broadway show asks a white actor to replace an Asian one. The backlash was swift

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- The Broadway rom-com "Maybe Happy Ending" isn't in a very happy place these days. A casting controversy threatens to dampen the show's post-Tony Award-winning glow. The strife b... Read More


AI tool of the week | ChatGPT Connectors take the pain out of meeting prep

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Anyone with a busy calendar knows the pain of context switching. Before every meeting, you scramble through Gmail threads for past conversations, dig into your calendar for who's... Read More


Artificial intelligence's next home: your eyes

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- It was way back in the 1960's that the foundational idea of smart glasses first came up. Pioneering computer scientist Ivan Sutherland experimented with a head-mounted display th... Read More


The Beat Report | Bold and banned: how we profiled the Ullu app and its elusive founder

Mumbai, Aug. 30 -- Good morning! Of all the kinds of stories we write as journalists, profiles are my favourite. Profiling a founder or a business leader is harder than it looks. If you are on good t... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Stories about Indian cookbook writers, Arundhati Roy's 'gangster mom' and more

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- In the era of YouTube, when every recipe from almost every part of the world is a three-minute video, it's hard to see the appeal of cookbooks. Instead of struggling with near-ex... Read More


The headline of this week has been weeks in the making

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Of course, there was a flicker of hope that good sense would prevail-that the Donald Trump-led US administration would desist from imposing an additional 25% tariff on India for ... Read More


The week in charts: Tariff turbulence, TCS' office expansion, India retains EM crown

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- From India's plan to address the disruptions from 50% US tariffs, rising culture of tuitions, India securing the top rank again among emerging market nations, Rakesh Gangwal's in... Read More