From floods to farms, the model helps locate damaged buildings, vehicles, and crops, promising faster insights, though experts say more testing is needed.
Brisk sales in markets, malls and textile shops; prices of groceries remain low, but coconut oil stays high
Flipkart announced a fresh funding round of one billion dollars, underscoring the rapid expansion of India’s e‑commerce sector. The influx of capital follows similar investment moves by Amazon and reflects growing mobile‑driven consumer demand across the country.
The Times of India editorial notes that members of India’s 16th Lok Sabha list a variety of professions on the parliamentary portal, revealing a diverse occupational profile among MPs. Data shows large numbers of agriculturists and social workers, with only a few representatives from fields such as sport, science and strategy consulting.
Many Indians still go “awww” when a US secretary of state endorses — in Hindi — PM Narendra Modi’s alliterative catchphrases, in this case, “sabka saath, sabka vikas”.
TIMES VIEW Europe had to react to MH17 downing Chandan Nandy Moscow did not stop after annexing Crimea but continues to foment insurgency in Ukraine.
What is about people that makes them believe their children are of fascinating interest to others. Went for a dinner the other night and i am sitting next to this very pleasant stranger and deciding that maybe this is an evening for charm in high gear and some crisp conversation when this little child runs in and then out again and in again and out again and then reverses the trend.
Aam Aadmi Party’s decision to not contest any of the four upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana and Jharkhand is the wisest choice the party has made in the last six months.
Precious time of the nation and its leadership is being wasted on a non-issue, namely Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)’s new Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT).
After having raised the issue of whether the clubby and secretive collegiums system actually preserves the independence of the judiciary former Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, has now trained his guns on India’s antiquated contempt of court law. He has made the valid point, in this newspaper, that judicial supremacy cannot be based on the law of kings in a democracy.
The cancer of corruption eating into India’s medical sector is no secret. Reports of patients being prescribed unnecessary tests by unscrupulous doctors in league with labs abound.
To climb up human development ladder, India must reinvent its mai-baap sarkar
Case of India’s youths joining ISIS is a wake-up call for Indian security agencies
Corruption thrives in secret places
BJP forces will press for saffronisation of history books: Partha Chatterjee
The Modi government has begun to carry forward a process related to Jammu & Kashmir that the UPA regime had initiated but had then abandoned in all but name.
On being asked whether he has any friends in the film industry, actor Johny Lever mourns that in this industry, there is dosti but no dosts. He feels people make all kinds of promises when they are at work, but none of these amount to much once a film is done and dusted. Lever may be speaking the truth of his own experience, but his life is not the mirror of every life in Bollywood.
The presidential address to Parliament on June 9, 2014 had focussed nearly exclusively on projects and schemes, eschewing policy. Therefore, many had eagerly awaited the budget speech for a policy vision of the new government. Unfortunately, it too left observers guessing on whether the government would tackle tough reforms or rely principally on better implementation.
