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Luxe hotels curate Diwali hampers beyond the box

Season highlights: Locally sourced goodies, sustainable packaging

When deposits become 'assets' of banks

Offering a higher interest rate is an easy but costly solution. It's time for banks to innovate

SCENT OF A MAN

Why domestic telcos smell trouble if Elon Musk's Starlink gets satellite spectrum at administrative prices

India leans on tech to manage land and property

New technologies are boosting the property market and helping land management in India. As the government pushes for digitization of land records and entrepreneurs deploy new technologies in the property market, a change is coming.

Tech leaders bet on AI's India future

Why the world believes in the country's talent pool, infrastructure and 'vibrant' startup ecosystem, reports SHIVANI SHINDE

'Robots could be one of humanity's greatest opportunities'

The new buzz word in the world of artificial intelligence is Physical AI, the coming together of hardware and software on which applications are built. DEEPU TALLA, vice-president (VP) and general manager (GM) for robotics and edge computing at chipmaker Nvidia, is working to make Physical AI a reality. In an interview on the sidelines of the Nvidia AI Summit in Mumbai, he spoke with Shivani Shinde about Physical AI, robots and more. Edited excerpts:

Bridge to Berlin

Agreement can open up opportunities

Robert Fisk's last war stories

Robert Fisk was the best-known British war correspondent of his generation, thanks in part to sheer persistence. He spent more than four decades running from one Middle Eastern death zone to the next, cataloguing the horrors he saw in gruesome detail and railing against the West's complicity in them. He was something of a cult figure on the British left, where his anti-imperial and anti-Zionist convictions were widely shared.

Growth questions

Some indicators remain puzzling

Farm to fork takes the digital path

The Indian farm sector seems to be on the cusp of a digital revolution.

India has skin in the global game

The country's foreign policy must rise above free riding on global stability

Its chip found in Huawei item, TSMC cuts off China's Sophgo

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) suspended shipments to China-based chip designer Sophgo after a chip it made was found on a Huawei AI processor, said two people familiar with the matter.

South Africa amends guidelines to allow genetically modified children

A little-noticed change to South Africa's national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice.

Economic leaders face a new era of industrial policy

Policymakers brace for more protectionism and demise of 'neoliberalism' if Trump is re-elected in the US

A sigh of relief as Khamenei stops short of retaliation call

Satellite images show impact of Israeli attack on 2 secret Iranian military bases

Immigration remains a contentious issue in US presidential race

With just nine days left for Election Day, immigration remained one of the contentious issues in the US presidential campaign, with many immigrants, including from India and other South Asian nations, fearing a backlash if Republican hopeful Donald Trump wins the poll.

Winds of change

October 29 marks 25 years since the devastating 1999 Super Cyclone. RAMANI RANJAN MOHAPATRA reflects on Odisha's journey from ruin to resilience, now recognised globally as a model in disaster management

On a wing and a prayer

The Jharkhand Assembly elections will see electors cast their vote on November 13 and 20. SHIKHA CHATURVEDI analyses how food inflation, poverty, and promises are playing out in the fiscally-strained state

Surge in illegal Indian migration to US; China tally trebles in 2 years

The debate around illegal immigration has intensified in the runup to the US presidential election. ARCHIS MOHAN gives insight into the issue

Das receives A+ in Central Bank Report Cards 2024

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das received an A* grade in the Central Bank Report Cards 2024 for the second consecutive year.

Nabfid may raise ₹40K cr via bonds in H2

Its borrowing from markets was about ₹9,000 cr in the first half of FY25

LIC eyes foray into bond FRA market by FY25-end

State-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the country's largest insurer, is set to enter the bond forward rate agreement (FRA) market by the end of the current financial year (FY25).

PADDY PROCUREMENT NORMS: Govt rules out state-specific relaxations

The government on Sunday virtually ruled out giving any specific relaxation in paddy procurement norms to any state, including Punjab, saying whatever easing will be done would apply to all uniformly.

NMDC-KIOCL merger on cards

The Union government is planning to merge Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL) with India's largest iron ore merchant miner, NMDC—a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) soon, according to a senior steel ministry official.

Interest subsidy plan for exporters up for revamp

Move after FinMin sought justification

Progress on MDB reforms 'disappointing': G20 report

Terming the steps taken towards the multilateral development banks' (MDB) reforms suggested under India's G20 presidency as \"disappointing\", a G20 independent expert group has said the pace and ambition of implementation falls well short of what is required even though every institution has embarked on a programme of reform.

IDBI Bank stake sale gathers pace

The Union Ministry of Finance is expecting to complete the privatisation process of IDBI Bank by March 2025, according to a senior government official familiar with the matter.

Not easy to make Brics draft on int'l payment systems work

Astute businessmen and finance executives would have taken note of four initiatives the leaders of Brics, a grouping of nine countries, proposed when they met last week at Kazan, Russia: more trade between the Brics member countries, payments in national currencies of Brics member countries, an electronic platform for settlement of interbank transactions and a new currency to facilitate transactions and build up of reserves.

Govt puts listing of CPSEs' green units in fast lane

NTPC Green Energy, SGEL, NLC India Green Energy may see IPOs by FY25-end

Mcap of 9 most valued firms drops by ₹2 trn

Nine of the top-10 most valued firms together lost a whopping ₹2.09 trillion from market valuation last week, in line with weak trends in equities, with Hindustan Unilever and Reliance Industries Limited taking the biggest hit.