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How technology became India’s social equaliser

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India Mission on 1 July 2015, many saw it as an ambitious technology programme aimed at expanding internet access and digitising government services.

The New Family

For decades, India’s social contract rested on an assumption that required little intervention from the state: families would care for their elderly.

Delayed Recognition

Every democracy owes two debts to its soldiers. The first is to equip them well enough to fight.

Agni Kawach

India is building its energy future on several pillars at once: bio-ethanol, coal gasification, renewables, and nuclear power.

Building bridges

In a historic and symbolic moment, India and Sri Lanka have reignited a forgotten connection by resuming ferry services between the two countries after a staggering four decade hiatus.

The AI Wars

This April, more than 9,000 Hollywood screen- writers, meeting under the banner of the Writers Guild of America, authorised a strike with ninety-eight percent of the vote. One of the major issues in dispute was the demand of screenwriters that Artificial Intelligence (AI) be used only for the purpose of research or ideation, and not as a means to replace them.

Women priests make a mark in male domain

Kolkata and its suburbs are now witnessing a change. There is a great demand for women priests to perform community Durga Pujas and the demand is only increasing.

Lessons on why we humans must unite

As the world faces its most perilous hour, the salutary truth the followers of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh maintain is that the peoples of the earth must recognize their interdependence and oneness.