Siddaramaiah Goes Backfoot On Local Quota Bill

Sources within the Congress, including those who have been members of the teams that drafted its 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha poll manifestos, said the Karnataka government decision lacked any empirical......

Personal Data Protection

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking person’s guide. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Last week, I was sitting in the rear seat of my car, deeply immersed in my Kindle, reading......

Use tech to scale up COVID-19 vaccination: Nilekani

'We are the only country in the world where everybody gets a digital vaccination certificate immediately... Then as we open up, as they did yesterday, which I think is a welcome move, you will have......

India added 1,300 active tech start-ups in CY2022, taking tally to 27,000

India added over 1,300 active tech start-ups to its ecosystem in calendar year 2022, taking the total tally to between 25,000-27,000, according to a recent report. Illustration: Dominic......

Nasscom sees tech start-ups bloom by 2020

The country will witness a mushrooming of technology start-ups over the next five years, creating massive employment opportunities, industry body Nasscom has said. "By 2020, total number of......

We Missed Industrial Revolution

Is India headed there again? asks Ajit Balakrishnan Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   He was a stout, illiterate man, son of a butcher, struggling to earn enough to feed his 13......

Majority of Capgemini's 2 billion euros investment in AI coming to India

A bulk of the Paris-headquartered IT major Capgemini’s proposed euro 2 billion investment over three years in artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to India, a top official of the company......