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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.

Monsoon cricket

It never rains but it pours. For two consecutive days in recent weeks, you would have read and heard of Super Four matches being shifted from Colombo

China’s real estate woes hit tourism

The Covid-19 pandemic shook the Chinese travel industry, as it did the world’s. But despite the easing of pandemic restrictions – and a global tourism rebound – Chinese tourists have been slow to return to the global skies.

Energy Pact

In an era dominated by climate change concerns and the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, the memorandum of understanding…

AI rules

The American state of California, home to 35 of the top 50 Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies in the world, is…