New Delhi (IANS) The government’s strategy of stepping up investments in big ticket infrastructure projects in the road, rail and ports sectors has driven up the country’s GDP growth rate and played a key role in enabling India to emerge … read more
Tel Aviv (IANS) For the first time since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7, a senior leader of the militant group said they could recognise the Jewish nation as part of the Palestinian unity talks. Mousa … read more
New Delhi (IANS) Global tech leaders hailed India’s efforts toward making artificial intelligence (AI) ethical, safe, trusted and responsible, as Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said the country is confident about negotiating a global declaration document on AI. … read more
New Delhi: As the debate on whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more of a threat than a technological advancement came to a head, US President Joe Biden issued a wide-ranging Executive Order on October 30 clearly warning against the dangers … read more
New Delhi (IANS) Climate change will increase the risks of new health outbreaks and financial companies should make sure that their investments help to mitigate and adapt to those risks, a new study has said. Many emerging and re-emerging infectious … read more
Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) A study paper on India’s economic growth underscores that the slow recovery from the pandemic, dominance of non-productive sectors in driving growth, and imbalanced investment patterns should make one pause and reconsider the growth strategy before celebrating. The … read more
New Delhi (IANS) Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday remembered Henry Kissinger, who passed away at the age of 100 on November 29, saying that he was immensely consequential and hugely controversial, and in 1971 he and US President Nixon … read more
New Delhi (IANS) India has witnessed an extreme weather disaster almost every day of the first nine months of this year — from heat and cold waves, cyclones and lightning to heavy rain, floods and landslides, the Centre for Science … read more
New Delhi (IANS) Last week, veteran Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders vowed to be Prime Minister of the Netherlands eventually, following an election in which his party won the most seats. Wilders vowed on X: “I will be prime minister.” … read more
New Delhi (IANS) The nail-biting drama around Sam Altman being sacked from OpenAI, joining Satya Nadella-run Microsoft and then returning to OpenAI — all within a span of six days — has alerted governments and regulators and the call to … read more