German elections this week have once again underlined that Europe's political landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Friedrich Merz's conservatives won, but the star of the election night was Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which managed to double its support in just four years to 20.8%, emerging as the second biggest political force in the nation's parliament.
Even as bright minds in Indian information technology debate whether India should focus on creating applications using existing artificial intelligence (AI) models or spend time and energy developing foundational models and carrying out fundamental research, there is one area of indisputable consensus.
It is most welcome that external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said that India and Japan are well-positioned to support Africa’s sustainable development, even as the US government has frozen the funds its aid agency, USAID
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has profound implications for national security and defense.
Although India recognized Israel as the 54th UN member in 1949, it opposed granting full UN membership to Israel on the grounds that the Jewish state had been established through war rather than negotiation
Assorted state governments have been holding investment summits, where chief ministers declare their unstinted support to new business ventures, assorted businessmen turn up to declare their investment plans for the state, and sign memoranda of understanding, hope for a paradigm shift in the local business-smothering culture floats at the venue of the summit, like an evanescent puff of perfume, the assembled scribes write up positive stories, and then, once the photographs have been taken, and the motorcades carrying visiting dignitaries have wound their way to the airport, everyone departs the site of synthetic euphoria, climbing down to their habitual elevations above the mean sea level, back to the principal occupation of humdrum survival.
The Trump-Modi meet on February 13 in Washington proved strategic in several ways. The order of priority in which only a few heads of the state met Donald Trump before Narendra Modi carved a niche of its own. It was widely anticipated that the Trump administration would give the bilateral relationship a Trumpian imprint, if not carry out a strategic upgrade altogether.