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Saturday, April 11, 2026
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Topic: WEF

5 ways workplaces can turn employee well-being into a competitive advantage

When leaders model healthy behaviours, balancing intensity with recovery, demonstrating vulnerability, and using available support, they shape norms across an organisation.

What’s the most powerful secret of healthy ageing? A sense of purpose

Community initiatives must pivot from passive engagement to generative activities. Gathering for a cause creates a significantly higher sense of well-being than gathering for leisure.

EU under pressure to make digital economy safer. AI can address this issue

To combat financial crime, policy-makers need to find ways to build trust in digital systems that don't involve simply expanding surveillance.

How reusable sanitary pads are helping girls stay in school in rural India

Across rural and tribal India, millions of women and girls still manage menstruation without safe products, accurate information or community support. And the barriers are rarely technological.

5 ways to lower the risk of dementia

As populations age in nearly every country, the number of people living with dementia is projected to rise sharply — from 57 million in 2021 to an estimated 139 million by 2050.

What happens when young children begin interacting with AI?

Companion AIs are reshaping how adults work, learn and love. When optimised for toddlers, the implications could extend to how children develop persistence, social behavior, and the ability to build human relationships.

Companies must enable young talent to become decision makers. It isn’t optional anymore

Growth models that depend on innovation and consumer insight cannot succeed while sidelining the cohort most attuned to emerging technologies and cultural changes.

Egypt gave children the right reasons to come to school—rapid recruitment, digital readiness

As global conversations increasingly focus on future skills and human capital, Egypt hopes that its experience will contribute to a broader dialogue on how education systems can recover, modernise, and innovate.

The world’s issues took a back seat at Davos. WEF was all about satiating Trump

The main draw at this year’s summit was Trump’s appearance, his first since 2018. The US President spent an hour attacking and defending Europe in the same breath.

A tale of two Davos speeches — Carney and Trump

While Canadian PM Mark Carney warns of a fractured global order and urges alliances, US President Donald Trump’s address centres on legacy and power.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.