Topic: Development

As India adopts AI, it remains to be seen whether we build intelligence as a private advantage or as public infrastructure.

Urban India today needs a renewed social contract, one that prioritises reliability, transparency, and responsiveness, and aligns governance structures with everyday needs.

The Economic Survey 2025-26 shows India among the top five countries in 45 out of 64 critical technologies in the Critical Technology Tracker.

Near-vision loss quietly erodes productivity and income for millions of working adults at the last mile, yet fixing it is among the cheapest, fastest and most scalable ways for public and philanthropic capital to unlock human productivity.

At the launch of his book, Memes For Mummyji, Desai expanded on the widening gap between urban aspirations and reality, saying that while our ambitions have grown, cities have lagged.

The Ramayana entering politics is not the collapse of reason alone; sometimes it is also the search for continuity in a decade that has moved faster than people can catch up with

Speaking at the launch of 'A Sixth of Humanity' by economist Arvind Subramanian and political scientist Devesh Kapur, Subramanian said the book has a theme of ‘precociousness’.

UNDP and ESCWA warn of severe economic impact, poverty surge, and unemployment rise.

The state government, in a new policy seen by ThePrint, has made a number of proposals to create the requisite housing, including incentives for developers and unlocking vacant land.

The measures announced in the Budget to address the problem of thwarted aspirations of young people don't seem to be a strategic response to the underlying issues.