Technology
India on the threshold of a new, dedicated AI legislation
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav conceded that generative AI's challenges-- deepfakes, synthetic content — may outpace what the 2000-era IT Act can handle.
Prasanta Paul·04 Jul 2026
Business
Altman Proposes US Government Take 5% Equity Stake in Top AI Firms
If implemented, Altman believes, it could create a pathway for a share of the AI industry's massive financial gains to reach ordinary citizens directly.
Prasanta Paul·02 Jul 2026
International
Sino-Bangladesh partnership over Teesta a warning bell for India
For China, the Teesta Barrage Master Plan expands influence into a geopolitically sensitive theatre close to India’s vulnerable eastern corridor.
Prasanta Paul·02 Jul 2026
International
Islamabad Rachets Up Rhetoric as Indus Waters Treaty Standoff Deepens
Islamabad has upped ante against New Delhi over suspended water-sharing pact. Pakistan, New Delhi insists, has to end its support for cross-border terrorism.
Prasanta Paul·01 Jul 2026
Creative Corner
The Lake That Has Hidden a Thousand-Year-Old Secret
Few places on Earth offer such a literal, physical record of how distant histories can collide, unknowingly, in the same remote corner of the world.
Prasanta Paul·01 Jul 2026
Seven Sisters
Tribal Alarm Over Chinese Encroachment on Sacred Ancestral Lands in Arunachal
PLA, NAH tribals allege, has been progressively seizing substantial portions of their ancestral grazing, hunting, agricultural lands over the past six years.
Prasanta Paul·30 Jun 2026
National
Suvendu’s Masterstroke Dents CPIM & TMC’s Minority Fortress
Suvendu Adhikari promised to act without delay. He kept that promise. Police machinery roared into action. 17 arrests made in less than 24 hours.
Prasanta Paul·27 Jun 2026
National
377 Lightning Strikes Kolkata Was Witness To in 2 Hours!
The firmament was so violent and ruthless that the city and its neighbourhood hadn't witnessed such fury in a very long time.
Prasanta Paul·26 Jun 2026
Business
India Courts Its Diaspora to Defend the Rupee
The Reserve Bank of India's latest deposit scheme targets overseas Indians as a source of dollar inflows — but the strategy comes with strings attached.
Prasanta Paul·25 Jun 2026
Science and Space
3.5-billion-Year-Old Rock Rewrites Lunar History
The specimen, designated NWA 12593, is a 311-gram olivine-phyric basalt, representing one of only 31 officially classified lunar basaltic meteorites on Earth.
Prasanta Paul·25 Jun 2026
Environment
Sip & Destroy: How a Riverside Café Has Swallowed Sunderbans' Soul
A sprawling café rises on razed mangroves,encroaches the Irrigation Department land on the dried Malta riverbed in the ecologically fragile Sunderbans Islands.
Prasanta Paul·24 Jun 2026
Seven Sisters
Sikkim Team in Rapture as Elusive Mishmi Takin Reappears
A joint team from Sikkim's Tourism and Forest Departments came back with an extraordinary footage that has quietly redrawn Sikkim's wildlife map.
Prasanta Paul·23 Jun 2026
