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Digital lending has emerged as an effective alternative to traditional lending (by financial institutions) for people who are new to credit or are underserved by the financial system. (Photo: Reuters)

Changing the way banking is done

India is accelerating fast on the highway of the digital economy and currently boasts of a superior ecosystem which has encouraged a thousand innovations across the spectrum. We have already hit a century when it comes to unicorns in startups with a total valuation of...

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Creating a seamless farmers’ database

The challenge in our agricultural landscape has seen a marked shift. From who is a farmer in India to how we collate the data on every farmer in India. Now, governments are beset with an even bigger challenge of profiling farmers in India. Or creating...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with counterparts from Nordic countries. (Twitter/@narendramodi)

Takeaways for India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dashed off to three countries in Europe from 2-4 May 2022. He went to Germany, Denmark and for a stopover in Paris on the way back home. This is his first visit to Europe since the war in Ukraine last month...

No shortcuts?

“There are no shortcuts in life!’ Or is there? “Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life” is a recently published book by the Oxford University mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. He argues that shortcuts are more common than most think in all...

Snobbery of stomach

Eating omnivorously and ubiquitously has become the consumption norm of our times! This new Epicureanism of unregulated gluttony has been the driving force of our modern lives. Gastronomical innovations and transformations seem to bombard the matters and manners of food in our times. Rapid and...

Sharing passwords can be costly

When you open a new bank account and set up online access to your account, a bank employee may say something like this to you: “Do not share your password with anyone!” And you may find yourself thinking, “Of course not. Do I look like...

Our trichromatic eye

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first of its kind, was sent to space to investigate the cosmic matter by analysing the light coming from it. The HST has shown that the distant galaxies are more redder than the nearest galaxy and the phenomena is...

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Fish are much smarter than we think

If you’ve ever been scuba diving in the ocean, you’ve probably come across schools of fish. Unlike the majority of youths, fish enjoy being in schools. They spend not just weekdays in schools, but also weekends. That’s because schools promote learning, and fish know they...

Riding two horses

India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took place April 11 in Washington DC. This dialogue was preceded by a virtual meeting between Narendra Modi...

Now or Never

Hollywood superstar Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock March 27 at the 94th Academy Awards function. It was over a poor joke which offended Will’s wife and enraged him to lose his temper in a fit of anger. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...

 

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Another War

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What was being feared now looks like happening. The Israel-Hamas conflict is fast deteriorating into a regional conflagration with Iran...

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