Ethics of AI and the edge of expression
Courtesy the Instagram handle of The Indian Express, the sight of factory workers wearing head cameras to train artificial intelligence should trouble anyone who cares about dignity at work.
Courtesy the Instagram handle of The Indian Express, the sight of factory workers wearing head cameras to train artificial intelligence should trouble anyone who cares about dignity at work.
The swift collapse of the Trump administration's proposed anti-weaponisation fund is significant for reasons that extend far beyond the fate of a single programme.
The return of El Niño is a reminder that the world’s climate crisis is no longer defined solely by long-term warming trends.
Recently (on May 7 and 8), Swami Sandarshanananda of the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur, presented a beautifully modernized view of Hinduism in two succinct commentaries.
In order to narrate and organize the past in a systematic manner, a discipline emerged that came to be known as history.
Air pollution is no longer an environmental inconvenience; it is an economic shock with persistent and compounding effects. A recent World Bank report (March 2025) estimates that nearly 5 per cent of global GDP is lost annually due to air pollution through reduced labour productivity, lost working days, and shorter life expectancy.
India’s solar story is often told as a clean break from a coal-heavy past: sunlight replacing smoke, rooftops turning blue, and power flowing without soot or ash.
The recent US air strikes in north-western Nigeria signal more than a tactical military action against jihadist groups; they reveal how global counter-terrorism has become entangled with political messaging.
Pakistan’s political landscape has once again tilted sharply in favour of the military. The recently enacted 27th Constitutional Amendment ~ passed hurriedly through both houses of parliament in November 2025 ~ has fundamentally reshaped the country’s civil-military power structure and concentrated unprecedented authority in the hands of a single military leader: Field Marshal Asim Munir.
As a biting northerly wind swept across West Bengal toward the end of December, intensifying winter conditions and steadily lowering temperatures statewide, Kolkata recorded its coldest day of the season on Saturday for the third consecutive day of decline.
