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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicDigital age

Topic: digital age

SubscriberWrites: From curiosity to concentration—what we’re losing in the age of distraction

Growing up digital reshapes focus, freedom, and resilience. Balancing screen time with real-world play is key to raising the next generation of thinkers and leaders.

IAS officers must not fear demands of digital age

Public institutions that remained largely insulated from day-to-day political currents now find themselves navigating an environment where policy debates happen in real time.

World’s least developed countries need urgent digital transformation. Here’s what to do

Eighty-three per cent of the 1.4 billion people who live in LDCs are covered by mobile broadband signals –3G or above. But only 36 per cent are connected online.

‘Are you a journalist or an Indian?’ Editors Guild Conclave talks nationalism & media vs govt battle

At the event organised by Editors Guild of India, journalists discuss spread of misinformation, challenges in the digital era and ease of access to information in the pre-Modi era.

SubscriberWrites: Digitalization, A boon and bane for Gen X

The digitalization in varied fields is perhaps the acme of a global and developed world.

Nationalism, rent-seeking could spoil our digital future. Learn from history of internet

Just like the first internet engineers who designed the network they wanted, today's users should have the freedom to choose the kind of internet they want.

Paperless Saharsa is Bihar’s new showcase district. It’s snipping the Great Indian Red Tape

Saharsa is the first district in Bihar to be declared paperless. It was not a one-day magic event but a process that took time, training and changing mindsets.

Choose commentator, trawl data feeds: How this app brings you sport with personal touch, live

FanCode, the platform showing the ongoing India-West Indies series, is following global trend of companies introducing aspects of AI & advanced tech in sports broadcasting.

‘All about helping Rajni’ — tech gurus at iSPIRT quietly power India’s digital revolution

With the fictitious Rajni from rural India as its guiding light, iSPIRT has been using internet & software to change structure of country’s economy, with aim to improve quality of life.

New book provides insight on how nations need digital fair play to improve global governance

Published by HarperCollins India, 'The Great Tech Game' by Anirudh Suri will be released on 26 February on ThePrint’s SoftCover.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.