TK Arun These organisations could take on infrastructure upgrades needed to replace imported hydrocarbons with electricity as the main cooking fuel in India A new breed of energy service organisations (ESOs) would greatly facilitate the needed switchover from imported hydrocarbons…
TK Arun In 1992, Pope John Paul II issued a declaration acknowledging that it was wrong for theologians of the Church to have condemned Galileo for his heliocentric theory in the 17th century. On 17 March, World Bank chief economist Indermit Gill reprised…
Policy Update Anish Pujapanda Background Saving Schemes can be traced back to the pre – colonial eras, where there was a launch of the Post Office Savings Bank in 1882 to democratise banking, making the savings across India’s vast postal…
TK Arun Trump lied about everything—inflation, jobs, economic growth, tariffs, immigration, and Democrats’ disposition towards the US—in his State of the Union speech. At a campaign speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said that King Purushottam (Porus, the Greeks called…
TK Arun AI sovereignty is not about apps or agents. It rests on GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, chip fabrication, political will, and the capital to fund long-term risk. The Artificial Intelligence Impact summit is on in Delhi. There is natural interest…
T.K. Arun Data-centre tax holidays represent oodles of government cash to favoured Indian businesses for little public benefit The 21-year tax holiday doled out by the Union Budget to foreign firms that do data centre business in India should be rolled back,…
The recent Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate cuts in India have come against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump's penal tariffs. On August 7, Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on certain Indian goods so that these exports would now face at least 50% tariffs, compared to 30% on Chinese exports and 19% on Bangladeshi exports. Naturally, India's competitors stand to benefit, while Indian exports would decline sharply.