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Reusable rockets are changing space travel. India needs to catch up In 2017, Isro made history by launching 104 satellites on one PSLV rocket. Four years later, SpaceX beat that record by launching 143 satellites on one Falcon 9 rocket. Sending many satellites together is one way to save money. But there is an even…

… that FSSAI is still not alert to safety aspects of quick-delivery food & grocery apps There are increasing incidents of quick-delivery businesses supplying rotten food, expired products, food items with fungal growth, the latest example was from Delhi. This is worrying for the quick food-delivery ecosystem, among India’s fastest-growing e-commerce businesses, given exploding demand…

Let me start with numbers. For numbers don’t lie. They display no bigotry and leave little room for convenient debates. At present, there are 1.38 million new cases of cancer in India. As many as 1,392,179 people in India had cancer in 2020, according to a global oncology report. According to another report, cancer cases…

The future of the Delhi Gymkhana, a historic, British-era landmark in the national capital, hangs by a legal thread. The central government plans to take control of the property, saying it needs the land for strategic infrastructure. On the face of it, the chances of the club look bleak. It doesn’t own the 27.3 acres…

Artificial Intelligence has arrived with astonishing speed. Machines can now write essays, compose music, diagnose diseases, answer philosophical questions and even simulate companionship. To many, this technological revolution appears to signal a future in which machines may not only surpass human intelligence but also diminish human relevance.   Such a possibility evokes both excitement and anxiety. If machines can think, converse and learn, what remains uniquely…

India’s export performance is a key part of the country’s economic strategy: Supporting employment generation; Manufacturing and services, and; The integration of Indian firms into the global value chains. To further strengthen export competitiveness, especially for: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs); First-time exporters, and; Labour-intensive sectors; the Union Cabinet chaired by the PM had approved the…

Barely two years after Wayanad witnessed one of India’s worst landslide disasters, another mountainside has collapsed. This time it is at the site of one of Kerala’s most ambitious infrastructure projects — the Wayanad Twin Tunnel — in the same Vellarimala ranges that witnessed the Mundakkai-Chooralmala tragedy. At the time of writing this article, six…

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on his recent three-nation visit to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, the headlines were predictable – trade, defence, strategic partnerships, and geopolitics. But amid discussions around India’s Look East Policy of the Nehruvian era and the Act East Policy under the Modi government, one phrase deserved a little more…

You did not collapse overnight. Long before the morning you could not get out of bed, your body was sending smaller notes, and you taught yourself to ignore each one. Burnout recovery begins not with a holiday or a new planner, but with a harder admission: that exhaustion is information, not weakness. This is the…

Classical poets, artists and musicians have celebrated the monsoon as a season of romance and eroticism. After the burning heat and listless, arid months of summer, gathering storm clouds become metaphors of longing and desire. Miniature paintings from centuries ago depict cumulonimbus formations of dark indigo hues, creased with serpentine flashes of lightning, while a…