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Pariksha Pe Charcha has become a jan andolan, writes the education minister, because it makes students feel heard. In an AI age, this is both more challenging and more necessary than ever As Pariksha Pe Charcha unfolds again this week, it marks a quiet yet decisive shift in Bharat’s educational journey. Launched under PM Modi’s…

The moment a board stops asking “what failed” and starts asking “why this was allowed to exist,” the CIO’s job changes forever. This shift rarely arrives with drama. There is no formal vote. No revised charter. No updated title.There is only a pause—longer than usual—after a cyber briefing, an AI deployment update, or a vendor-risk…

I recently asked NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang a question in Houston, in the US, while engaging with the global powerhouses of AI, Systèmes and SOLIDWORKS ecosystem, about AI, chips, and geopolitics. The response was unequivocal: chip leadership and artificial intelligence together will define the new world—its products, processes, and people. That framing matters deeply for…

For the last two decades, the internet has largely revolved around one predictable ritual. Humans ask questions and software returns answers. Search engines perfected this ritual, social media accelerated it, and large language models made it conversational. But a new technological wave is quietly rewriting this contract between humans, information, and machines. Tools like Clawdbot,…

Budget 2026 does not announce a dramatic reset of India’s federal compact. Instead, it signals something subtler, and arguably more consequential: a preference for stability and constitutional discipline in Centre–State fiscal relations at a time of growing economic and governance complexity. The government’s acceptance of the 16th Finance Commission’s recommendation to retain the 41% vertical…

Mamata came to SC to star in a political-electoral theatre. It was good acting Politics is rarely business as usual in India and yesterday proved that again. Bengal chief minister’s decision to appear before Supreme Court alongside her battery of lawyers was a neta move of a different league. Whatever the outcome of the Bengal…

When historians look back at Union Budget 2026–27, they may not begin with the headline capex numbers or the fiscal arithmetic. They may begin with a seemingly technical provision—one that extends tax certainty for foreign companies using Indian data centres all the way to 2047. This was not a tax concession in the ordinary sense….

Want a goodnight’s… ? Dream on Travel is no longer a simple holiday; ‘niche’ has become the new normal. The latest is a getaway for those who can’t get any sleep. It’s a variation on the lazy ‘staycation’. In that you stayed in your own city but slept in another (expensively booked) bed; in a…

India needs more trade deals to spur growth, but its hands are tied by world’s largest farmer population Rome wasn’t built in a day, but 22-year-old Alcaraz beating 38-year-old Djokovic at Australian Open is yet another reminder that coming of age needn’t take forever. Nasa took just 11 years to touch down on Moon. Japan…

I have come to see that Dharma becomes most distorted when it is treated as something fixed. Dharma is not static. It is living, responsive, and deeply rooted in context. No authority, no institution, and no individual can contain it within a definition. Words such as law, morality, conscience, or religion attempt to point toward…