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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicWorld Economic Forum

Topic: World Economic Forum

Don’t pop antibiotics every time you have a cold. But resistance crisis has an AI solution

Alessandro Curioni -
After Covid, cold symptoms are making people panic, but antibiotics aren't the answer. Some generative AI models can discover new medicines faster than humans.

Covid lockdown cost children 2 trillion hours of learning. Classroom culture needs reset

Edward Ma -
UNICEF’s latest report suggests that most children leave primary school across 32 low- and middle-income countries. But it's not too late.

Hospital visits to debts — heat waves are more than a simple climate threat

Helen Nugent -
The International Labour Organisation predicts that heat waves could reduce work hours by 2 per cent globally, leading to 2.4 million in losses.

Not entrepreneurs, we need ‘social intrapreneurship’ for an ‘inside job’ in public sector

Adam Taylor -
Social intrapreneurship emerges as a concept that harnesses the ability of citizens to assist in appropriate governance and becomes agents of change.

Is Saudi Arabia doing better than India in bridging gender gap? WEF report says yes 

Nikhil Rampal -
New Delhi: Saudi Arabia has outpaced India in bridging the gender gap, the latest Global Gender Gap Index 2022 released by the Switzerland-based World...

Oceans have 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. A ‘code of conduct’ can rescue it

Ken Buesseler -
Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels is not enough to tackle climate change and we need to find ways of safely removing and storing carbon.

Handwashing shouldn’t just be about Covid. It can give a 92-fold return to India’s economy

Kelly Ann Naylor -
Hand hygiene received unprecedented attention during the pandemic – but it is also a long-term priority. It can help emerging economies.

G-7 sees Modi’s ban on wheat exports as an obstacle to combating rising food prices

Bryce Baschuk -
India could play a key role in averting a downward spiral of food protectionism at this week’s WTO conference in Geneva.

1.4 million unplanned pregnancies were reported in 2021. Put women’s healthcare on priority

Amira Ghouaibi -
Sexual and reproductive ill-health accounts for one-third of the global burden of disease among women of reproductive age. We need to act fast.

Women were the worst-hit victim of Covid, climate change. Public-private partnership can help

Laura Gillespie -
The past two years created higher barriers for women to receive healthcare and educational opportunities while violence increased. More women must speak up.
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Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

Ashwani Kumar -
Nitish Kumar has mastered the rhythm of renewal in Bihar. In a democracy of churn and chance, endurance may be the rarest—and most refined—form of political art.

India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Chinese don’t want Xi to fall for Trump’s G2 gimmicks—’intentional malice’, potential trap

Economy

India may cancel green projects struggling to find clients

Bloomberg News -
While the move could free up grid capacity struggling to keep up with rapid renewable rollout, it would be a major setback for green ambitions. India aims to double clean power capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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