Big tech stops complaining, starts complying with Australia's teen social media banAustralia will ban under-16s from social media from December 10, forcing platforms like TikTok, Snapchat and Meta to block young users. Tee...
12 Nov, 2025, 08.37 AM IST
India is the poster child for UK PM Keir Starmer's ID card planUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised India's Aadhaar digital ID system as a "massive success" and expressed a desire to learn from it for...
18 Oct, 2025, 12.08 PM IST
View: Apart from simplifying matters, the new Income-Tax Bill is a big step for the system to rewire itselfIndia's Income-Tax Bill 2025 introduces a simplified and transparent tax framework, aiming to ease business operations and reduce tax dispu...
16 Feb, 2025, 11.15 PM IST
Australia's planned social media ban raises teen isolation fears"It's the only way I've ever connected to my grandma before, over socials," said Hussein, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
16 Oct, 2024, 09.53 AM IST
Big gets bigger: 5 things to know to understand India’s economy under Narendra ModiBJP stalwart Narendra Modi's potential third term as India's Prime Minister is backed by significant financial support and a narrative of e...
01 Apr, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
UK data watchdog to make enquiries about Sam Altman's Worldcoin crypto projectBritain's data regulator said on Tuesday it will examine Worldcoin, a project by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman where users provide their iris scans...
25 Jul, 2023, 03.18 PM IST
How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AIAuthorities worldwide are racing to rein in artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where groundbreaking legislation is s...
14 Jun, 2023, 02.40 PM IST
Data protection Bill puts Indian children at a disadvantage. Here's howOver-reliance on parents for consent may curtail access for teenagers due to various reasons, including parents' lack of exposure, gender b...
02 Jul, 2022, 05.40 PM IST
View: Global tax restructuring a recognition that the existing system is weakBritain introduced the 'Google tax', India introduced the 'equalisation levy', and a host of other countries took different unilateral meas...
15 Oct, 2021, 12.06 PM IST
View: Govt needs a fresh approach to Big Tech regulation with an unbiased mindsetMost measures taken by regulators to address issues like ex ante regulation or anti-trust enforcement do not appear to be well thought-out....
25 Mar, 2021, 11.20 PM IST
View: A dekko at the lay of the land post-Covid that will present new threats and opportunitiesThe State not just makes policy — industrial policy, urban planning guidelines — but plans for the economy and regulates huge swathes of it...
05 Jan, 2021, 11.04 PM IST
View: Addressing the last-mile challenges in Covid-19 vaccine distributionThe establishment of a national expert group for Covid-19 vaccine distribution and Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) to track ...
10 Dec, 2020, 11.08 PM IST
View: Why polls today are more about psychology and political economy than statisticsThe more academic American Association for Public Opinion Research’s (AAPOR) postmortem report on the 2016 election polls recognised that s...
09 Nov, 2020, 09.13 AM IST
Zara's hot polka dot dress beats big dataA $69.90 polka dot dress from Zara has become the fashion hit of the summer.
14 Jul, 2019, 07.54 PM IST
Market Movers: EPFO, ESIC may lose power to manage corpus; Green shoots in bond market & moreA lowdown on top macro triggers that may move market on Wednesday
17 Oct, 2018, 08.29 AM IST
Nobody can get any extra information about you once you link your mobile to your UIDFor telecom companies, electronic KYC is cheaper and eliminates the risk that a rogue agent may cooperate in enrolling a subscriber with fa...
23 Nov, 2017, 06.25 AM IST
- Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
Critics warn that RFID-tagged identities will enable identity thieves and other criminals to commit "contactless" crimes against victims wh...
13 Jul, 2009, 05.47 AM IST