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Saturday, September 20, 2025
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Topic: technology

US and China trade disputes are an opportunity. India could become the next tech hub

Bengaluru did not become a tech innovation hub overnight. It shows key policy changes that are required in India to foster an innovative ecosystem.

IIT Madras designs 2 devices costing under Rs 5,000 for people with hearing & motor disabilities

Such devices were already on the market, but IIT Madras researchers wanted to make them better and cheaper for India.

Entrepreneur Prateek Shukla introduces innovative IoT solutions in the Indian market

Shukla's startup, Altorum Leren, was awarded the prestigious title of ‘Automation Technology Provider of the Year’ by NITI Aayog.

We have adapted to cloud and remote working tech. Now it’s time for a ‘zero-trust’ model

Several organizations such as Google or Microsoft established methodologies to implement and operationalise it, but it is yet to be widely adopted.

OECD’s global tax framework is a win-win for India. Just focus on our long-term gains

The multilateral agreement has come against the backdrop of visible populist angst against large transnational companies across the world.

We created holograms you can touch – you can even shake your virtual colleague’s hand

At the University of Glasgow’s bendable electronics and sensing technologies research group, we have now developed a system of holograms of people using “aerohaptics”.

Google to Facebook, tech firms leaning on retd IAS officers to deal with Modi govt

Technology companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter or Amazon are under increased scrutiny and regulatory pressure of the Modi govt. They need an insider in power corridors.

Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot comes with serious concerns – but not the ones you think

As a researcher who studies ethical use of emerging tech, I find the Tesla Bot raises concerns that transcend sci-fi fears of super-smart robots.

Lenskart raises $220 million as India’s tech industry mints more unicorns than ever before

Valued at $2.5 billion, according to founder Peyush Bansal, Lenskart plans to use the capital to expand online sales and add brick-and-mortar stores in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

SubscriberWrites: Covid gave ed-tech platforms huge boost, they need to start building on it

Richa Singh highlights the growth ed-tech startups have made in the past year and suggests ways they can improve.

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.