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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.

Future of left

We live in a time of untrammelled and footloose capitalism. Free market capitalism has hardened into a dogmatic and monolithic creed that brooks no opposition.

Afghan quake

Afghanistan, a nation already plagued by conflict, political turmoil and economic hardship, now faces another grim chapter in its tumultuous history a devastating earthquake that has left hundreds dead and thousands injured.

The Vortex

The fallout of Saturday’s assault by land, sea, and air on Israel by Hamas, the terrorist Palestinian organisation that controls the Gaza Strip which is home to approximately two million stateless Palestinians, has brought West Asia to the edge of the precipice.

Ukraine Doomed?

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches its six hundredth day, battle fatigue seems to have set in not only in the warring nations but the world over.