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Politics turns petty What has happened to the quality of political discourse? Too often, our politicians seem to squabble like schoolchildren, with grace, dignity and reasoned debate giving way to tittle-tattle and…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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The Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry has remained fixated on model rankings. A new release claims the top of some leaderboard almost every week. Until recently, most enterprises simply chose the strongest available…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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A performance audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of the Green India Mission (GIM) has found that a scheme conceived to heal India’s forests had, across a decade, achieved almost…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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Antarctica may seem like an icy desert, but beneath its frozen landscape and surrounding Southern Ocean lies one of the world’s most fascinating ecosystems. The continent’s wildlife has evolved remarkable adaptations to…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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Recently, India-based defence start-up D-Propulse announced that it had successfully demonstrated a rotating detonation engine at a Defence Research & Development Organisation facility in Hyderabad. A rotating detonation engine, or RDE, is…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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Entrepreneur Ankur Warikoo and his wife, Ruchi Warikoo, took to Instagram to share three rules they follow at home as parents. “Our children are 15 and 9. We have created these three…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death globally, yet many of the factors that increase cardiovascular risk are linked to everyday habits that often go unnoticed. In an Instagram…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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By Saumitra Bhaduri and Shubham Anand A country can defend its currency in two ways. It can earn more dollars or it can borrow them. The two look alike when the money…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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For decades, India’s school education policy pursued a simple objective: to bring a school within reach of every child. The neighborhood school became an instrument of social justice, particularly for poor and…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug
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Kareena Kapoor once candidly acknowledged that she has always been driven and greedy for success. As such, if she had to give her younger self a message, it would have been to…
By Sohail Khan · 17 Aug