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AI is not destroying the job market, but changing it. There will be jobs aplenty if you update your skills  In white-collar circles, this is the best of times. The first trillionaire is just round the corner. This is also the worst of times – millions of jobs are at risk from AI. A new…

The NGMA in Mumbai stands like a citadel of history in India and when you know that the Master Nandalal Bose’s Haripura posters are part of an epic exhibition it must compel a visit. ‘Colours of Swadesh From Haripura to Constitution ‘ brings alive chapters and passages of the past in the magnificent dome of…

As tensions in West Asia once again draw attention to the Strait of Hormuz, most discussions in India have focused on oil. That is understandable. Nearly a fifth of the world’s petroleum passes through this narrow waterway. But there is another, less visible story unfolding. The Strait of Hormuz is not just an energy chokepoint….

AI is the proverbial hammer. I have a nail in clinical psychology. I tried mapping the hammer to the nail and came up with the following list. I am not even talking about AI as a whole. I am discussing only the traditional machine learning part of AI. Classification Problems (Categorical Target Variable) 1. Automated…

Days after the government’s decision to take over the Delhi Gymkhana Club was challenged in the court, Union housing & urban affairs minister Manohar Lal asserted that the government can take back its leased land for development work and any other purpose. More ominously, he announced that similar action would be taken in other cases…

The world today stands at one of the most precarious economic and geopolitical crossroads since the end of the Second World War. The US-Iran conflict has imbalanced the equilibrium of international energy security, trade, and fiscal dynamics. Also, the prolonged Russia-Ukraine conflict has disrupted global energy markets, fertiliser supplies, food security, and trade networks. Continuing instability across…

India today carries a contradiction that few other economies do. The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has crossed $4 trillion. By some metrics, India’s population has surpassed China’s, while it still has a working-age demography that much of the world envies. India is among the fastest-growing major economies with an aspirational middle class and millions…

Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. This week we are covering Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin, EU’s unveiling of the 21st sanctions package against Russia, Pashinyan wins Armenia’s election, tensions flare up again in the US-Israel war against Iran, and the Trumpian Fifa World Cup…

Oh my Gods! Surely, we are not having that conversation from four years ago, as the hub of expectations shifts from a compact West Asia base to the divided States of the North American continent. Deities Messi and Ronaldo still rule parallel worlds, although there is a feeling that despite the celestial weapons in their…

As Bihar’s alcohol prohibition policy completed ten years in April 2026, recently released fact sheets from NFHS 2023-24 indicate limited success. The survey recorded a 1.1 percentage-point increase in share of men consuming alcohol, compared with previous NFHS round. This raises important questions about the effectiveness of what is Bihar’s most ambitious social policy. Read…