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Generative AI Seen Capable Of Adding $275 Billion To Apparel Business In 3-5 Years
By K Raveendran Generative AI has been described as a milestone that will be as impactful as the advent of internet. The optimism is matched by an equal measure of concern over its effect on employment as also ethical questions about its use, apart from its potential for mischief....
Bangladesh Elections Keenly Watched By International Community
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury As per constitutional provisions, Bangladesh needs to hold its general election every five years, and the next general election is expected to be held by January 9, 2024. Meanwhile, the European Union, Britain and the United States have repeatedly emphasized on ensuring a free,...
Andaleeb Wajid Is Now One Of The Most Prolific Writers Of Hot Romance
By Harihar Swarup Andaleeb Wajid is back at her mother’s house, this time for a month. It is Ramzan—the months of fasting and praying. She logs in from her refuge—the desk in her peppermint green room. A romance writer, love is her business. In 2021, she spent six months...
Overemphasis On Total Opposition Unity Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls, May Be Counter Productive
By Nitya Chakraborty Just one year is left for the holding of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April/May 2024. The non-BJP opposition parties are having discussions for building a comprehensive unity of the opposition political parties who are determined to remove Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power at...
Congress Leadership Has To Take Immediate Action To Resolve Rajasthan Crisis
By Kalyani Shankar With the state assembly election later this year, Congress faces a political crisis again. The party lost Punjab last year because of mishandling by the Gandhis by backing the wrong horse. Will the Congress leadership be able to save Rajasthan from going the Punjab way? Congress...
Murky Plot Behind Political Killings Of Gangster Brothers In UP
By Arun Srivastava The finance minister of Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Khanna, was absolutely right in saying: “Some decisions are taken in heaven. Whatever happened was kudrat’s (nature’s) justice, decided in heaven.” That the assassinations of gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf was carried out following a ‘divine order’...
Rate Of Melting And Retreating Of Himalayan Glaciers Doubled
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the rate of melting and retreating of Himalayan Glaciers has doubled since 2000 at the rate of 0.5 m per year compared to 0.25 m per year in the earlier 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there is no comprehensive information about the volume...
Politics Behind Vande Bharat Train For Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: One swallow does not make a summer. So goers the saying. Likewise, one Vande Bharat train for Kerala won’t solve the State’s long-standing railway travel woes. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and activists in the State, who are over the moon, however, beg to...
Digital Payments Are Steadily Taking Over Usual Transactions In India
By Girish Linganna A woman named Subamma, holding her young child, prepares to go to work selling clay pots in Somanahalli Kanakpura Road, a village on the outskirts of Bangalore City. Across the country, millions sell roadside items for a living. However, the old-fashioned practice of trading goods for...
Sudan’s Political Crisis Intensifies As Para Military Groups Oppose Army Coup
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Fierce fighting between Sudan’s military factions has been ongoing and continued for a second day, resulting in dozens of casualties across the country. Reports suggest that the clashes began with months of tensions between the country’s army and a paramilitary group. Battles have erupted in...
China-Brazil Summit Paves Way For The Emergence Of Alternative Currency Against US Dollar
By W. T. Whitney Jr. The United States proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago and ever since has arranged Latin American and Caribbean affairs to its advantage. Nevertheless, struggles for national and regional independence did continue, and the poor and marginalized classes did resist. Eventually there would be...
After The Ukraine War Documents Leak, Biden Presidency Is Left With No Cover
By Branko Marcetic The Ukraine war documents leak is a very big deal. Among other things, the documents reveal that the Biden administration has been misleading the public about its upbeat assessment of the Ukrainian war effort. The leak lays bare the extent of US spying on friends and...
India’s US$2 Trillion Foreign Trade Target By 2030 Is Over Ambitious
By K R Sudhaman The Narendra Modi Government has come out with a new Foreign Trade Policy that aims to achieve $ two trillion exports by 2030 — that is $1 trillion of goods or merchandise exports and an additional $1 trillion services exports. It certainly looks a tall...
Unholy Bank-Borrower Alliance Is Behind Most Big Financial Frauds
By Nantoo Banerjee Pledging inflated stocks to borrow big from India’s public sector banks seems to have become a routine practice in India. Surprisingly, the Reserve Bank (RBI), the banking regulator, and the government, are doing little to control such practices by holding bank management as responsible as those...
Karnataka BJP Is In Twilight Zone Before May 10 Assembly Elections
By Arun Srivastava In a scenario where it appears that road to south for BJP is once again getting blocked, the desperate leadership as a last resort to salvage the situation and stem the crisis is seriously contemplating to turn the electoral battle into a combat between “SAVARKAR VS...
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s Prime Task Now Is To Come Out Of CBI Net Unscathed
By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is the soul and spirit of the Aam Aadmi Party, which recently achieved “national party” status, couldn’t care less right now for an electoral alliance with a party or parties for the 2024 general elections. Not the day after he...
Congress Leadership Must Act Fast To Bridge Gehlot-Pilot Differences
By Tirthankar Mitra Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is walking a tightrope in trying to amicably resolve an intra-party feud between veteran Ashok Gehlot and young Turk Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan. Working out a compromise formula by Kharge seems to be asking for the moon as both the feuding leaders...
Gangster Killings At Prayagraj Unite Opposition And Civic Society On Law And Order
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The brutal killing of mafia don Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in police custody in full public glare outside Prayagraj hospital where entire media was also present has not only shocked the civic society but also exposed the deterioration in law and order situation...
