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Fend off doom: the world needs a multilateral regulatory framework for artificial intelligence

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- The world of technology was shaken when Chinese startup Moonshot recently unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI) model Kimi K3. Astoundingly, it compared well with similar Ame... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Domestic investors seem confident but will it rub off on truant foreign portfolio players?

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Recent support for Indian share prices is often ascribed to retail investor enthusiasm and data shows domestic institutional investors (DIIs) have broadly been big buyers. The n... Read More


Can governments allocate resources better than markets? India's RDI Fund will form a case study

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- A newspaper report has raked up an old split among economists. Can governments allocate an economy's resources better than the market? Since economics is essentially about how to... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | A new triad raises the stakes for India-Pakistan conflicts: here's what we must do

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan have signed a Nato-like security pact wherein an attack against any one would be considered an attack on all. Since Riyadh has borne Tehran's ... Read More


It's time for India's Unified Payments Interface to fund itself-without burdening people at large

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- A day after India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill in Parliament proposing changes to the Payment and Settlement Syste... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Questions of legal liability for insults to national honour demand wide deliberation

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- China's inventive success has been a particular perplexity for those who see freedom of conscience as integral to originality, innovation and its economic yield. Perhaps its 're-e... Read More


Will retail investors bear the brunt of a shift in India's stock market formula for end-of-day price discovery?

New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Stock markets globally have multiple layers of stakeholders, all of them invested in signals transmitted by trading patterns. The constituents directly concerned with price moveme... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The monetary policy committee's inflation hypothesis will be tested this year

New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- The status quo maintained by the monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on interest rates sprung no surprise, given the caution that a hazy economic ho... Read More


Hairpin bend ahead: what India must watch out for as it prepares to make vehicles talk to each other

New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Indian roads are among the world's most hazardous. Trucks, buses and cars jostle for space with motorcycles and three-wheelers that swerve without warning. Motorists must stay ale... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Trump's 'forced labour' tariffs face legal scrutiny: keep track of this case in court

New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- President Donald Trump's Section 301 tariffs face internal resistance, with 25 Democrat-led states challenging them in the US Court of International Trade. The coalition has argu... Read More