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With China and America in an AI-catapulted space race, the world needs a global treaty on AI warfare

New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- India opened its space sector to private players at a time of covid paralysis. Since then, some progress has indeed been made. Poised for a breathtaking leap into space, however,... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Why India's Rafale deal with France has been called the 'deal of the century'

New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- The agenda for French President Emmanuel Macron's India visit this week is expansive, with everything from the shape of global AI rules to the Russia-Ukraine war up for talks. Wh... Read More


New Delhi's AI Impact Summit should get more ambitious: Aim for substance beyond the spectacle

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Governments love global summits. They signal ambition, draw CEOs and leaders, and create the impression of shaping the future rather than chasing it. India's ongoing Artificial I... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | India's unemployment edges up-but job quality is the real challenge

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- India's unemployment rate rose a bit this January to 5.0% from 4.8% in December, as seen in the monthly bulletin of the government's Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released ... Read More


India's revised inflation gauge: Why we can look forward to superior policy outcomes

New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- India's new consumer price index (CPI) series, released last week by the statistics ministry as part of a huge two-year long exercise to revise key macroeconomic variables, is a ... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Artifice of intelligence? The big questions we can't expect Big AI tools to answer

New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- The confidence with which artificial intelligence (AI) can eye human jobs has taken a leap, thanks to the rise of AI agents. Right now, AI's frontier of capability is jagged, mar... Read More


How RBI could tighten its draft guidelines against the mis-selling of financial packages by banks

New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- Traditionally, a bank served only two types of customers: depositors, who were primarily individuals, and borrowers that were usually corporate entities. The bank courted both ca... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | What India's revamped inflation gauge is likely to mean for monetary policy

New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- India's statistics ministry on Thursday released its first set of inflation data after its long-awaited overhaul of our consumer price index (CPI). With the base year of this pri... Read More


India's revised IT rules aimed at AI deepfakes are stiff but will they be effective? Don't bet on it

New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- In the absence of a dedicated law to police the abuse of fast-evolving AI and Generative AI-systems that can impersonate humans, fabricate reality and operate on their own-India'... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Why an end to India's gold ETF rush may be good for its economy

New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- The typical story of retail investors joining market rallies at their fag end might be playing out in gold, with its exchange traded funds (ETFs) recording a late gush of inflows... Read More