Extended break in repo rate by 2021
Although the Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation forecast for March 2021 is expected to reach around 5.6 per cent, the rise in Kovid-19…
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Contradictory stories of economic transition from three states
Despite lagging behind Kerala at the beginning of the last decade, Tamil Nadu currently has the highest per capita real income, divided by…
Hobby economy and the web’s hot new business model
When you browse the World Wide Web, you’re definitely encountered an infamous ‘404 error’, indicating that the web page is ‘not found’. What…
America needs a strategic rethink on its Afghan issue
When US President Joe Biden took office, he inherited the foreign policy disaster in Afghanistan. A year ago, his ancestral ambassadors struck a…
Blackchain’s hammer is always looking for new nails
I mentioned this earlier: My favorite tweet on Blackchain: “Blackchain answer, now ask me a question?” Blackchain, which has fueled the relentless hype…
Kovid-19 hesitantly breathed fresh life into the term ‘public good’
The epidemic gave the word ‘public good’ a new lease of life last year. Unfortunately, the epidemic has reinvested the term with reinforced…
AI’s Achilles heel could be its big carbon footprint
A few months ago, the largest Artificial Intelligence (AI) model in history and the most powerful language model ever, the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer-3…
Google has ended the era of the internet by putting a lid on a cookie jar
Internet search giant Google said this week it was done tracking us while we skated around the web. After completely eliminating the use…
The story of 111 cities
Bangalore topped the list of 49 most livable cities in India with a population of over one million. Shimla topped the list of…