Priyadarshi Nanu Pany Let me roll back the calendar to October 2021. If you recall, Facebook (now Meta) then suffered a major outage for around six hours. Facebook-owned social platforms- WhatsApp and Instagram, too, faced blackout. It was an unanticipated shock for folks glued to these sticky platforms. At the same time, it triggered economic losses worth millions of dollars ...

Anurag Singh Thakur Anurag Singh Thakur It may be coincidental, but it is nonetheless of profound satisfaction for every Indian that India has surpassed Britain to emerge as the world’s fifth largest economy in the 75th year of its independence from British colonial rule. This achievement also comes at a time when Britain is struggling to shore up its plummeting ...

Priyadarshi Nanu Pany Just think how easy it would be for us if we could just approve a pre-filled Income Tax (IT) returns form. An auto-generated tax return means a break from the drudgery of filling in details! Can we make this possible? Yes, if the governments have a master data repository of citizens’ data. Or a golden records database ...

PRIYADARSHI NANU PANY Just think what jobs your kids will do as they dip their feet into the future of a digital-first world. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of today’s children will be absorbed in professions we are unversed with. And a good proportion of those jobs will populate the Metaverse. Many have billed Metaverse as the future of ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 31, 2022 Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has witnessed a paradigm shift towards people-centric governance. The last 8 years of the Government have been based on the Prime Minister’s mantra of ‘Reform, Perform, Transform’. Across sectors, landmark policies and initiatives have been implemented to improve last mile delivery of benefits and enhance ...

Sanjay Banga Odisha had made tremendous strides in the last couple of decades to become one of the fastest-growing states, rebooting effectively from the Covid impact. It is among the first few states in India to quickly bounce back to the pre-Covid level growth rate. According to Odisha’s Economic Survey 2021-22 released recently, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the ...

by Arun Vasan, Alexandre Bueno and Aline Lemos Emerging economies, such as Brazil and India, have been the growth drivers for the world economy. The fintech sector is emerging strongly in both countries, and the successful combination of technology and entrepreneurship has been fundamental to address the increasing demand for financial inclusion and the modernization of the respective economies. Financial ...

R K Sinha The Tata Group is soon to gain complete control of Air India airlines from 27th January. Earlier, there were speculations that Air India would be fully taken over by the Tata Group on 23rd January. The daunting challenge for the Tata Group will be to recast Air India into a world-class airline. The service of Air India ...

R K Sinha The current year 2022 is a monumental milestone for the amicable relation between India and Japan. Positive diplomatic relations between the two nations were established in 1950. Apart from the teachings of Lord Buddha, the messages of peace, non-violence, and brotherhood unite the spirits of both countries. Apart from the religion of Buddhism, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore is ...

R K SINHA The first elections post-onset of the Covid-19 pandemic were held for the Bihar Legislative Assembly in the months of November and December 2020. The Election Commission had patted its back and congratulated itself on the successful completion of those elections. Following that, the country bore witness to the election fiasco in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly which ...