The number of unicorns (with the $1 billion valuation and above) in India has dropped to 85 from more than 100 just a couple of months ago, as most startups have shed a significant share of their valuations while investors stay back amid the prevailing global economic turmoil.
As India takes over the Presidency of Group of Twenty (G20) amid global crisis, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant has described this period as an “opportunity” and said the host nation will try to do everything possible to be positive and forward-looking.
Spike Narayan- Spike Narayan is a seasoned hi-tech executive managing exploratory research in science and technology at IBM. Electrifying transportation has been a topic of discussion for decades and has long been the holy grail for technophiles. India is likely to be playing a major role in the transition to electric cars. The first mode of […]
India will take over as the chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) once it assumes G20 presidency on December 1.
The United States federal government agency is set to invest more than USD 15 million in India’s health infrastructure, as part of the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), the White House has said.
Mayank Chhaya- As the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or COP27 enters its final stretch, the much-talked-about goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century seems unattainable. A new report from UN Climate Change shows that while countries […]
American antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor along with five accomplices who operated a multi-million-dollar looting network via his New York gallery has been sentenced by an Indian court to 10 years in prison for smuggling offenses.
With the nomination of Eric Garcetti as Ambassador to India languishing in the Senate, the US is sending the fifth career diplomat, Elizabeth Jones, to act as its envoy in New Delhi.
Ritu Jha- The revoking of Article 370 might have appeared smooth from afar, but experts believe the real battle is yet to come. Dinsha Mistree, a research fellow and lecturer in the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School in California, sharing his expert views on scrapping Article 370, said the decision made in […]
Justice Markandey Katju, Chairman, IRA – People of India (which includes Pakistanis and Bangladeshis). The great French writer, Victor Hugo, said, ” There is one thing more powerful than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come “. The idea of Indian reunification ( i.e. reunification of […]
