Persecuted inside Pakistan, the Ahmadis continue to see the Nobel-winning physicistโs life as evidence that scientific excellence and spiritual conviction can coexist.
With nine-day environmental clearances, phantom job figures, and staggering incentives, Andhra Pradeshโs AI infrastructure push exposes the countryโs regulatory vacuum for data centres.
A frenzied scramble for a stake in AI has set off a mega IPO boom, with abundant liquidity and hype driving valuations to extraordinary levels. As prices begin to fall, investor capital and pension savings are increasingly at risk.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prizeโs AI scandal has exposed how Anglophone literary prestige has always rewarded a particular, politically contained version of postcolonial writing.
A new faith in empathy is spreading through academia, technology and politics. The promise sounds humane, but the politics beneath it may be far less innocent than its advocates imagine.
The controversy over the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has exposed how AI has embedded itself into both the writing and judging of literary fictionโand the implications this holds for human creativity.
Indiaโs digital rise depended on foreign infrastructure and supply chains. AI is pushing energy, chips, and compute to the centre of the race, and India still lacks enough of all three.
Space is turning into an operational arena where economic control, military leverage, and geopolitics merge, and the US and China are setting the agenda and pace. Where does that leave India, underpowered and slow-moving?
Draft IT Rules shift online speech control toward Ministries, allowing direct takedown orders to users and making platform advisories binding. Compliance pressure pushes platforms toward pre-emptive removal of political and critical content.
AI styling tools may flatten personal taste into a narrow, brand-driven aesthetic, but active negotiation with the algorithm, grounded in self-knowledge and history, can preserve agency.
Courts are holding social media platforms like Meta liable for harming children. India, with 25 crore adolescents and weak regulation, must act nowโbans and legislation are no longer optional.