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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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Robot cafes, virtual doctors, — how South Korea is creating a fully contact-free society

South Korea’s government is encouraging people to use contactless services, and has even coined a special term for them: ‘untact’.

How the millennial demand for high-quality coffee can help climate change

The global coffee industry’s value has nearly doubled to $90 billion in the last decade. But communities with rich histories in coffee farming are struggling.

Pandemic-inspired homes could be the future of design innovation

The Spanish flu led to the ‘vanity room’, which originated as a hand-washing basin found right upon entering a home. Now Covid can influence how we design homes.

What the history of smallpox can tell us about Covid management

Lessons from past pandemics like smallpox, speckled monster & red plague apply to Covid-19.

Offer cashback, relax KYC norms to check decline in remittances, suggests WEF paper

Remittances, or the money overseas citizens send back to their home country, are expected to contract 20% in 2020 on account of Covid-19, according to a World Bank report.

There can be no climate change revolution without an investment revolution

There are investment opportunities in areas such as energy storage and electrification. Patient investors need to tap into the power of science and innovation.

Not Covid, it’s affluence that is the world’s biggest threat today

Scientists from Australia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have warned that tackling overconsumption has to become the world’s biggest priority.

How young people would like to redesign education and skills for a post-Covid era

Millions of young people cannot find jobs. Covid has made many now question the gap between the skills they learn in school & those needed for employment.

Polar bears unlikely to survive till end of century with current rate of carbon emissions

A new study predicts when and where the Arctic sea’s warming will threaten the bears' survival.

This app plants a tree every time you make a low-carbon choice

China’s largest private sector tree-planting scheme is based on an award-winning mobile game that turns good deeds to a new tree.

On Camera

India can’t fight Trump tariffs with emotion. Smart talks, sector relief, reforms are key

India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.

Amid Trump’s tariff bombs, India’s business with America surged while imports from Russia dipped 10%

As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?