AI will make you a better student if you treat it like an intense sports coach—someone who pushes you, quizzes you, and forces you to run the laps yourself. But if you treat it like a private driver who carries you across the finish line, your own academic skills will totally vanish.
The ambition exists across the region. Young Indian companies are building rocket engines and computer chips, products India has long bought from abroad. Pakistan sent a delegation to Silicon Valley to show what its technology industry can do
A country can only be as independent in its diplomacy as it is in its economy. A nation that imports its phones, its chips and much of its energy, will always have less room to manoeuvre than one that makes what the world needs.
The difference between Xi's New Delhi proposal and the language of the declaration illustrates the distinction between China's ambitions for AI cooperation and the level of agreement achieved among BRICS members. The declaration did not reject China's AI diplomacy; it simply did not explicitly endorse the proposed open-source community.
In an indication that Sri Lanka’s financial woes are far from over, a senior economist has said the country’s 2022 budget will not be able to provide relief to the public given the shaky nature of the budgetary management and lack of sources to finance it
Saudi Arabia has agreed to revive its financial support to Pakistan, including about USD 3 billion in safe deposits and USD 1.2bn to USD 1.5bn worth of oil supplies on deferred payments, officials said
The Maldives has a great scope for collaborating with international experts to promote its blue economy, President Ibrahim Mohammed Solih said on Tuesday as the country looks to promote other sectors to reduce its dependence on tourism
India's Adani Group, which has recently been awarded the contract to develop and run Sri Lanka’s strategic Western Container Terminal of Colombo Port, is also exploring the possibility of investing in the country’s renewable energy and wind sector
The Financial Action Task Force, a Paris-based global anti-terror watchdog, has retained Pakistan on its Grey List, also known as the Enhanced Monitoring List, and asked the country to do more "to investigate and prosecute" senior leaders and commanders from the UN-designated terror groups
In a powerful signal, Dubai has signed an agreement to build infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir even as the Kashmir valley sees a resurgence in violence and targeted attacks against religious minorities and security forces
Sri Lanka is expected to sign for a $500 million credit line facility with India as it suffers a severe forex crisis and is unable to pay for energy imports beyond January next year. Energy secretaries of both countries are expected to sign a deal soon, said Sri Lankan Finance Secretary S R Attygalle
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the Biden Administration and leaders from the corporate sector in the US have welcomed recent economic reforms introduced by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Microsoft's leadership team, including its Indian American CEO Satya Nadella, were given the 2021 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership at an event in Austin, Texas
Alpha Design Technologies has already indigenously manufactured and supplied equipment for a wide range of tanks, missiles, helicopters and various weapons and is indigenously developing Software Defined Radios (SDRs)
Adani Ports, India's largest private multi-port operator, has said that the terminals it runs will not handle cargo from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan starting November 15
After years of speculation, Tata Sons have finally won the bid to re-acquire national carrier Air India
The South Asia region is estimated to grow by 7.1 percent in the year 2021-22 amid the global surge in demand and targeted measures to contain the pandemic, the World Bank said in its latest report, adding the recovery, however, remains “fragile” and “uneven” across the countries in the region
Top American CEOs, who were at the forefront of galvanising the business community to help India during its COVID-19 crisis early this year, on Wednesday reflected upon the outpouring of support for their efforts to save lives
The Indian economy is open to innovation and investment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told UAE investors, and promised to keep up the reforms momentum in the economy
