It is as though a festival is in progress on a patch of forest at the Periyanayakkanpalayam range. Scooters and cars are parked haphazardly along a stretch as families arrive in droves, children in tow. A young father leads his daughter through the crowd, while a mother walks briskly, hugging her baby to her chest. … Read more
For P. Srinivas Reddy, sugarcane is now just a memory. At 55, the farmer from Narayankhed in erstwhile Medak district of Telangana has adapted to the changing times, cultivating cotton and pulses on his 25-acre rainfed land. With groundwater depletion rendering irrigation impossible, he no longer battles the uncertainties that once came with sugarcane farming. … Read more
An economy’s growth is like sailing on two boats tugged to each other. On one side is the supply or the production of goods and services. GDP, or gross domestic product, is the value the production process adds. On the other side, there is demand or expenditure for purchasing these goods and services from the … Read more
COIMBATORE Vijayan Srinivasan of Eco Dynaamic in Coimbatore is into the manufacturing of electric three-wheelers for more than a decade and has sold over 4,000 vehicles that are operated within the premises of the buyers. It is only in 2022 that Tamil Nadu came out with a policy for electric three-wheelers and there are a … Read more
Sipping a cup of hot filter coffee, 32-year-old Arun Kumar wears a faraway and worried look. Braving the stench of urine that fills the air, he carries his coffee up the stairs littered with paper cups and plastic bags. There is no missing the gutka stains on the walls all along. Mr. Kumar’s day begins … Read more
Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A team of researchers from IIIT- Delhi have come up with AI-powered data integration and predictive analytics tools, to understand the patterns of antibiotic resistance in real time, enabling various agencies to act on them speedily. As part of a collaboration between Indraprastha … Read more
Passengers board an overcrowded train for Prayagraj’s Mahakumbh at the New Delhi railway station on February 15, 2025. At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede that broke out that night at the crowded railway station. | Photo Credit: PTI In India, nobody bats an eye when they … Read more
Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO of Ness Digital Engineering | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement While artificial intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword across industries, companies worldwide have yet to harness the full potential, says Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO of Ness Digital Engineering. Speaking to The Hindu during his visit to Mumbai, the New York-based tech leader stressed that … Read more
The popular YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’ has sparked controversy after criminal proceedings were initiated against its creators and participants over allegedly obscene remarks in one of its episodes. On February 18, 2025, the Supreme Court granted interim protection from arrest to podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, one of the participants named in the FIRs. This has … Read more
Attention has been drawn by the Canadian Trade Commissioner in India to the question of the locomotives used there, and he appears to hold out some hope that Canada may have some chances of supplying a proportion of them to the Indian Railways, we are told by a Pioneer correspondent. He says that engineers in … Read more