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Strategic autonomy: Why India should call off the LLM debate and develop its very own AI models

New Delhi, May 5 -- In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), should India create its own large language models (LLMs) that can work on a trillion-plus parameters? Scale-wise, this would put them... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Big shifts in power raise a big question: Will investment patterns change?

New Delhi, May 5 -- East India has shown a dramatic shift to the right, with West Bengal voting decisively for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the country's latest round of assembly elections. Th... Read More


Europe must rationalize its gas import policy rightaway if the world is to prevent a food crisis

New Delhi, May 4 -- The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted not just oil and gas supplies, but caused a global fertilizer shock as well. Of the world's traded fertilizers, more than 40% of... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Differential LPG pricing has a sound basis in theory but that doesn't make it fair

New Delhi, May 4 -- Split pricing has its benefits. If something is sold to price-insensitive customers at a steep mark-up, then overall utility can be maximized if the extra charge allows price reduc... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The Federal Reserve's credibility may soon be tested as Jerome Powell hands the baton to Kevin Warsh

New Delhi, May 1 -- The US Federal Reserve kept its main policy rate unchanged on Wednesday as Jerome Powell presided over the rate-setting committee's meeting for the last time. The Fed is concerned... Read More


Why France's gold move may hold a cue for India in a post-Trumpian world

New Delhi, May 1 -- Last month, France did something that would have been unimaginable a few years ago; certainly before the outbreak of the Ukraine war, when US-led sanctions cut Russia off from the ... Read More


Could the UAE's exit from Opec lead to its split-up as an oil cartel? The odds seem against it

New Delhi, April 30 -- When Yeats wrote his celebrated poem The Second Coming in 1919, the lines "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" caught the world's a... Read More


Mint Quick Edit: Clean mobility is the future, no doubt, but it's not approaching fast enough

New Delhi, April 30 -- The government's push for clean mobility, though a climate imperative, is pushing India's automobile industry through a difficult transition. Going by road transport and highwa... Read More


Watch out for risky links in the banking system-India's economy depends on its reliability

New Delhi, April 29 -- Over the course of just three days last week, India witnessed three important developments in the banking space, all of which have a significant bearing on the larger issue of f... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | IIP numbers are a relief: India's industrial resilience amid a supply shock

New Delhi, April 29 -- With West Asia embroiled in conflict, global growth is set to take a hit as supply disruptions impact economies around the world. India can't escape, given our heavy reliance on... Read More