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Google announces $30 million science fund; new subsea connectivity initiativeAlphabet and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai on Wednesday outlined an expansive vision for India’s artificial intelligence future, unv...
Indian-American NASA veteran named US space agency's associate administratorIndian-American Amit Kshatriya has been appointed NASA’s new exploration-focused associate administrator, becoming the agency’s top civil s...
CUTS International’s final round-table: Need to sharpen India’s industrial and innovation policy, says Dr Montek Singh AhluwaliaExperts at CUTS International's roundtable discussed India's future, emphasizing infrastructure development, public goods delivery, and tra...
PM Narendra Modi urges tech-first governance, boost for startups, MSMEsAddressing bureaucrats in New Delhi at the 17th Civil Services Day programme, PM Modi urged officials to view themselves as enablers of gro...
Hong Kong to slash 10,000 civil service jobs, push AI in bid to reverse deficitHong Kong plans to cut 10,000 civil service jobs and freeze public sector pay before 2027 to address its rising deficit. The government tar...
Robot 'suicide' in South Korea: What caused it and its impact on the future of roboticsGumi City Council’s Robot Supervisor, an ID-carrying 9-to-5 robot by Bear Robotics, was found unresponsive. Operational since August 2023, ...
Robot servant in South Korea found smashed in stairwell; becomes first to commit suicide in SE Asian countryA Bear Robotics civil servant robot in Gumi City Council, South Korea was found unresponsive after a fall between floors. Employed since Au...
Can China export its way out of its economic slump?According to the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, China accounts for almost a third of the entire world’s manufacturing ...
5.30 am school trials for drowsy teens draws outcry in IndonesiaThe pilot project in Indonesia's far east has twelfth-graders at 10 high schools starting classes at 5:30 am. Authorities say the scheme, a...
Nirmala Sitharaman Budget 2023 Speech: Here is the full textThis Budget hopes to build on the foundation laid in the previous Budget, and the blueprint drawn for India@100. We envision a prosperous a...
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro pens 'Living', the British remake of Kurosawa classic 'Ikiru''Ikiru' revolved around a cancer patient who goes on a very personal quest.
Poverty, climate, space: China's progress in 10 years under Xi JinpingChina's Communist Party prides itself on being "at the service of the people", so Beijing's announcement in 2020 that it had brought an end...
The Indian expertise that can be a major form of foreign aid and soft powerAlong with Aadhaar, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the India Stack application programming interfaces (APIs) that enabled UPI, Di...
NITI Aayog has influence. Can it ever be a bridge between the Centre and states?Another domain expert who put his imprint on the functioning of the think-tank is Sekhar Bonu, an old Asian Development Bank hand, who till...
The stunning rise of Nirmala SitharamanSitharaman's story marks one of the swiftest ascents in Indian politics — she had joined BJP only in 2006.
Human status to river Ganga and Yamuna part of a global trendThis fits a trend towards a wider expansion of personhood beyond human beings. Sometimes it's being mandated by courts and sometimes just b...
NASA selects eight technology proposals for investmentSelected proposals have the potential to transform future missions, and improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace syst...
Don't be robotic, spend quality time with family: PM Modi to bureaucratsPrime Minister Narendra Modi today advised bureaucrats not live like robots and spend quality time with their families.
Clamour for civil service jobs is raucous only in UP and BiharActually, students outside the Hindi belt have better things to do: aspire for private jobs, lead a respectable life as an artist, architec...
CBI is seen as a government's hatchet: Former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi"CBI has a very mixed image. Not all of it is flattering. It is seen as a government's hatchet, rather than honesty's ally. It is often cal...