Elon Musk calls Mukesh Ambani a monopolist; Ambani’s Jio warns of foreign control. Meanwhile, 12,347 villages continue to be unconnected, and rural internet penetration lags far behind cities.
The doomsday scenario painted by some AI industry insiders cannot be brushed off. But is it also a ploy by the tech behemoths to shut the door on smaller players, secure profits, and establish dominance?
A discussion paper from the Principal Scientific Adviser proposes a middle path for AI data flows: keep strategic data in India, while allowing other data to cross borders under safeguards tailored to its sensitivity and identifiability.
Francis Halzen turned Antarctic ice into a neutrino telescope and finally traced cosmic rays to their sources; Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai figured out why life prefers left-handed molecules, and how to make chemistry do the same.
Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth’s work on optogenetics has given scientists a precise way to activate selected neurons and study their role in memory, behaviour, and neurological disorders.
Direct reporting to the cybercrime portal could speed up urgent cases, but its impact will depend on the quality of the information, investigators’ capacity and safeguards for users’ privacy.
The European Commission proposes a minimum age of 15 for autonomous social media accounts and wants platforms to redesign features that encourage compulsive use. India has lessons to draw.
With the country’s election machinery already raising questions about human judgment, perhaps we should see what happens when we hand the job to a machine.
The devastating floods in Nepal showed how quickly glacier collapse, unstable slopes and water can combine into a disaster. India is getting better at seeing these hazards from space. The harder task is turning that intelligence into action.
The government is asking ISRO to focus on its hardest missions while allowing the infrastructure and expertise needed for those missions to move out of its control.
The country’s environmental data is scattered across land records, satellite maps, and various government schemes. A shared digital system could connect these records, improve accountability, and protect community rights.
PM-KUSUM has turned solar power into a possible new income stream for farmers. But the scheme’s most ambitious component favours those who already have land, capital, and collateral.
Meta’s apology for wrongly restricting Modi’s video leaves the real problem untouched: its opaque moderation system gives users no way to know why content was restricted, who made the decision, or whether it was automated, human, or state-directed.
The Maharashtra government’s plans to set up hyperscale data centres are facing stiff resistance from activists concerned about their environmental impact and the diversion of essential resources such as water and electricity.
Academic freedom, evidence-based policymaking, social inclusion, and transparent governance are the foundations of a scientific nation. India has neglected each of them.
They should be audited and safety-tested in advance, judged by their worst possible failure rather than average accuracy, and not investigated only after a notice like the one the government just sent Meta.
Europe has relaxed its gene-editing rules after years of debate but kept strict checks on herbicide-tolerant crops. India eased its rules too but dropped an early warning about the trait, even as illegal seeds spread across cotton-growing States.
An AI-led semiconductor boom has transformed South Korea’s economy, but speculative finance, soaring valuations, and currency pressures trigger memories of past crises.
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