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SC bats for compulsory voting. But the Constitution calls voting an entitlement. That can’t be compulsory   Two years ago, about 65cr Indians voted in LS polls. That turnout was more than the populations of US and Indonesia – 3rd and 4th most populous countries – combined. But it was only 66% of India’s 98cr-strong electorate…

Companies like OpenAI (who made ChatGPT) and Anthropic (who made Claude) spend massive amounts of money—sometimes over $8 billion—to train their AI. They keep their code “closed,” meaning it’s locked away like a secret recipe. However, recent drama has surfaced involving a Chinese company called DeepSeek. They’ve been accused of “cloning” these expensive models. But…

One of the most subtle productivity errors does not look like an error at all. It looks like initiative. It feels like momentum. It even feels disciplined.  It is this: starting the day with the first task that grabs your attention. I call this behavior: running with the first task you come across. And if I…

Today is a significant day in relation to the Maoist movement. Devji, a key leader of the Maoist movement, has surrendered. The previous Maoist chief, Nambala Keshav Rao, was killed by security forces last year. His surrender officially marked the end of the Maoist movement. But for those affected by Maoism, another major development has…

Somewhere between your third weekend review call and your fifth performance calibration, you began to believe something rather tender: that work notices, it keeps score, and it has memory. It does keep score. It just does not keep you. When layoffs arrive, they do not come with thunder. They come with vocabulary. “Restructuring.” “Operating model…

Maya means that which can be measured. So, saying, “All this is Maya,” means everything here can be measured. Volume, temperature, distance, and time can all be measured. Everything in this creation is time and space, and both can be measured, and so it is all Maya. What isn’t Maya? That which is beyond measure….

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Israel tomorrow in what is widely expected to be another landmark moment in India-Israel relations. Nearly a decade after his historic 2017 visit, which fundamentally transformed the tone and texture of bilateral engagement, this forthcoming visit carries both symbolic and substantive weight. It signals continuity, consolidation, and…

Kyiv: As European leaders and experts gather in Kyiv to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there is a collective sense that Russia is not willing to stop any time soon. Speaking at the opening of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Special Meeting, there is clarity on what Ukraine needs now:…

Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank) and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) EXIM Bank provides lines of credit to overseas buyers to purchase goods and services from India in turn facilitating larger transactions and entry into new markets by providing financial support to buyers and exporters. SIDBI helps in the promotion of exports by offering…

I gently wiped a tear as I looked at my phone with grief and concern. Kamala paused mid-stride, worried that I had got some bad news about an ailing relative or that Trump had raised the tariffs again. But this was worse. It was disaster on a global scale. Punch, the baby monkey in Japan…