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India-Bangladesh ties | The points of contention Source link

To take oath as the new prime minister of Bangladesh, Tarique Rahman decided to break with convention. Instead of Bangabhaban, the official residence of the President, he and his cabinet were sworn in at the expansive and public-facing Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, home to the country’s Parliament. It signalled the return of parliamentary democracy after more…

Q. Do the recent trade agreements with the EU and US signal a fundamental shift in India’s trade policy? They show that India has emerged out of the shadows. Today, it is a very self-confident country. It engages with the developed nations from a position of strength. Ultimately, free trade agreements are about the future….

At a recent event in New Delhi, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh pointed out that without a strong military, other instruments of national power, like economic heft, lose relevance. The Indian Air Force (IAF) chief was hinting at the ‘elephant in the room’—the alarming decline in IAF fighter aircraft to 29 squadrons against a sanctioned…

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi picked up the phone to speak to US president Donald Trump on the evening of February 2, it was arguably the biggest foreign and economic policy call he would make. It marked the final act of a carefully choreographed tightrope walk to pull off an economic coup akin to what…

When Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman rose to present her ninth budget, expectations were she’d announce big-ticket reforms to strengthen industry and create jobs. Instead, she focused on a clutch of new-economy sectors expected to lead India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat. These were backed by targeted policy interventions and multi-year, sometimes even multi-decadal, investment push….

In a world that appears unmoored and disorderly, economic anxiety and political turmoil ripple across continents and even spill into our own neighbourhood. There is, as a foreign policy expert put it, a daily discovery and rediscovery of this global and regional churn. Amid this turbulence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands out in sharp relief,…

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Moviemaking | Will a robot write the next Sholay? Source link

Just the mention of the letters ‘AI’ generates a varied set of reactions, ranging from unlimited admiration to deep concern. Though everyone agrees that Artificial Intelligence is a product of the human mind, and debates about its ethical use are rife, we often endow AI with a mind of its own. Irrespective of whether a…