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TopicBengaluru water crisis

Topic: Bengaluru water crisis

Can municipalities reuse wastewater in this heat? Surat & Bengaluru show how to do it best

Surat has been selling treated water to manufacturing industries while Bengaluru reuses 50 per cent of its treated water. Can’t other Indian cities follow suit?

IISc study finds 93% of Bengaluru lost lake & forest cover since 1970s. How city can change its course

Loss of lake & forest cover to concrete contributes to rising temperatures. Experts suggest solutions including vertical expansion of city and urban greening.

Bengaluru has a difficult choice—save a 230-year-old stud farm or stay congested

In the tug-of-war between development and green lungs, the racehorse-breeding Kunigal Stud Farm in Karnataka may join the long list of open spaces that have been sacrificed at Bengaluru’s altar.

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Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.