Edit

I was fortunate to participate in the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, where many discussions emphasized the need to steer AI in a more socially beneficial direction. At a time of increasingly loud calls for AI acceleration from Silicon Valley – and now from...

With only a few weeks to go before the federal election on 23 February, Germany experienced a political earthquake. For the first time, the main opposition party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), relied on the support of the extreme-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to...

As the impact of the recent Narendra Modi-Donald Trump meeting in the White House on India’s economy is being assessed, it is significant that hours before Prime Minister Modi’s visit, President Trump announced that the US would levy “reciprocal tariffs” on its trading partners. Sitting...

There is no reason to be overjoyed, as many in India feel, over US President Donald Trump’s remark during a joint Press conference he held with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he left the current state of affairs to be dealt with by the latter....

Afissure seems to have appeared in the decades-old alliance between Europe and the United States. This drifting apart is visible if developments of the past week are any indication. During the three-day Munich Security Conference, which wrapped up on 16 February, US Vice President JD...

In the decade that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideology took control in India, things did not stand still elsewhere. In 2015, China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang announced a 10-year initiative to reduce China’s reliance on foreign technology and to move China from being a low-cost...

Something curious happened in Delhi’s bureaucratic circles last week. The government announced the empanelment of 42 officers for Joint Secretary (JS) or JS-equivalent posts, and here’s the kicker—only 16 of them were IAS officers from the 2009 batch. That’s barely a fraction. Another six IAS...

Democracy is under threat around the world, but not because dictators are overthrowing elected governments and seizing power. While authoritarian takeovers still make headlines, they are no longer the greatest threat to free societies. The real danger is more insidious: a gradual yet profound transformation...

Donald Trump seems to have started creating a new global order where might is right and the US, under his stewardship, can do and get away with whatever he desires. He has raised tariffs on aluminium and steel imports to which the EU says Trump’s...

Finally, Chief Minister of Manipur N Biren Singh has resigned. He took an inordinately long time to step down as he was allowed to remain in power when the north-eastern state was literally burning with the worst ever clashes in recent times between ethnic groups....