UPI promotion should not eclipse our e-rupee
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was linked to Singapore’s version PayNow at a virtual ceremony on Tuesday presided over by the two countries’ prime ministers
A judicial call on a liability shield can reshape the web
In 1995, when the World Wide Web was still in its infancy, the pioneers of that nascent industry were seen as no different from publishers
Maternal matters
In globalized times, English has a distinct edge in its global reach. While diversity is important, we need lingual commonality beyond the colour of our tongue
Banning online pharmacies would injure public health and stifle innovation
Offline chemists, acting through bodies such as the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), have been lobbying for a ban on selling medicine online. The government would do well to ignore this.
Why RRR is a watershed in the history of Indian cinema
Indian films are set to scale new heights thanks to their growing technical excellence and instantaneous worldwide distribution via streaming platforms.
Mint Explainer: What came out of the Blinken-Wang Yi meeting?
Far from reducing tensions, the US secretary of state’s meeting with China’s top diplomat underscored the vast chasm that still separates Washington and Beijing
‘The bot did it’ mustn’t let platforms get away
As Google’s YouTube awaits a key US judicial ruling on the extent of its liability shield, online intermediaries should recognize a need to take greater responsibility for their digital devices
Leaders should make space for intelligent disobedience at work
A culture that supports smart insubordination can minimize its capacity for fatally bad decisions
Roubini’s praise
While all praise pleases policymakers, Roubini’s words should qualify as special, coming as they do from an economist known as ‘Dr Doom’ for his apocalyptic predictions
The Union budget kept interests of the social sector close at heart
Fiscal spending has risen while an outcome-based approach is improving its quality to uplift the lives of multitudes better
Tech firms should go by Price’s Law if layoffs are a must
Staff reduction calls are easier to take if half the work is done by the square root of all those on a project
Marriage has a significant link in urban India with women’s work
It alters the participation of women in spheres outside the home by either choice or custom and that’s a loss to our economy
India has no reason at all to help Pakistan in its crisis
Voices asking for us to aid our neighbour that’s short of dollars need a reality check on Indian interests
A world split badly
Munich Security Conference: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s never again warning to Beijing on airspace violation was met by China’s chief diplomat Wang Yi’s flaying of Washington’s expanded use of economic weapons
Let influencers face the limits of their influence
A brazen attack on cricketer Prithvi Shaw and his companion by online influencers revealed a sense of impunity long prevalent on social media, sadly. The law must prevail everywhere