Amazon’s New India Bet: Heavyweight AI Spending Meets Grassroots Adoption

A New Digital Gamble Amazon’s latest India play hinges on a dual proposition: build one of the country’s largest AI–cloud infrastructures and simultaneously drive mass-scale AI use among small enterprises and government-school students. The strategy blends top-down investment—billions poured into data centres—with bottom-up capacity building meant to ensure that India’s future sellers, workers and consumers can meaningfully…

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Haryana Horror: The “Beauty Complex” Child Killings

A Chilling Case Emerges Haryana is grappling with a disturbing serial child-killing case centered on Poonam, whose alleged crimes span from 2021 to 2025. Investigators allege that what began as an apparent accident—a scalding of two-year-old niece Vidhi—escalated into a pattern of calculated murders driven by jealousy and a so-called “beauty complex.” Over four years, four children,…

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Tariffs Didn’t Slow the Surge: India’s Seafood Exports Find New Momentum

Even as the U.S. imposed steep tariffs of nearly 50% on Indian seafood—threatening a sector heavily dependent on American buyers—India managed an unexpected surge. Seafood exports rose 11.6% between April and September, signalling that exporters not only absorbed the tariff blow but leveraged it to aggressively seek new markets and restructure their export mix. The U.S….

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When Closing Doors Backfires: Jaishankar’s Immigration Warning to the West

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s recent remarks in New Delhi—arguing that the United States and Europe risk becoming “net losers” if they excessively clamp down on immigration—carry both diplomatic edge and economic analysis. His message: Western political fears are misdiagnosing the real causes of economic anxiety, and in doing so, they may handicap their own future competitiveness. India,…

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Seeding a Generation: The Dells’ Landmark Gift to Trump Accounts

A Landmark Pledge That Reframed a Policy Debate Michael and Susan Dell—among the wealthiest figures in U.S. tech and long-standing champions of children’s welfare—shocked the philanthropic world with a $6.25 billion commitment to bolster “Trump Accounts,” the child-asset program created under President Donald Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts Act. What began as a policy tool designed…

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Expired Aid, Exposed Image: Pakistan’s Relief Blunder Beyond Cyclone Relief

From Help to Humiliation: How the Aid Backfired What was meant to showcase solidarity after Cyclone Ditwah battered Sri Lanka instead spiralled into a diplomatic fiasco. Images released by the Pakistani High Commission depicting cartons of food and medicines — marked with an “October 2024” expiry — triggered a wave of public outrage when they surfaced…

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Systems Down: Why A Single Glitch Can Paralyse India’s Airports

A Sudden Breakdown, Long Queues and Delays Everywhere Flight schedules across major Indian airports were thrown into disarray on Tuesday evening after a nationwide check-in system failure hit multiple airlines simultaneously. Passengers in Delhi, Mumbai and several metros encountered static queues, halted counters and hours-long delays as airline staff lost access to real-time booking and departure…

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Amar Subramanya to Lead Apple’s AI Revolution

Amar Subramanya’s appointment as Apple’s vice president of AI marks a critical juncture for the company’s AI ambitions. Educated in Bengaluru with a bachelor’s degree from Bangalore University, Subramanya brings over 25 years of experience in large-scale machine learning systems. Known as a “builder-leader,” he has a track record of translating cutting-edge AI research into products that…

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Sanchar Saathi: From Anti-Theft Tool to National Flashpoint

Sanchar Saathi, the government’s cyber-safety app originally designed to help citizens track, block and disable stolen phones, is now positioned to become part of every new smartphone sold in India. What began as a seemingly innocuous anti-fraud utility has rapidly escalated into a fierce policy dispute—touching on privacy, state power, and the limits of regulatory authority…

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