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A replica of Electronic Voting Machine at the Election Commission of India head office, in New Delhi. (PTI)

The season of Sun Tzu’s ‘deceptions’ is on in full swing

3 min read . 07 Apr 2024

When you ask Perplexity’s ‘search’ bar a question, it hunts the web and uses AI to write a succinct summary of its findings and annotates the same with the sources it used for its answer.

AI is turning search engines into thought drivers in mutual rivalry

3 min read . 29 Mar 2024

We can also expect India's population to grow steadily older. Thus the prospect that we are staring at: A population that ages, that will grow before it starts shrinking.

And just so, we age gracefully

5 min read . 29 Mar 2024

Bombay high court recently reprimanded the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for reneging on its promise to the court to reconstruct a skywalk between the suburban commuter station Bandra and business district of Bandra Kurla Complex. (HT_PRINT)

Trust could be the cornerstone for this election season

4 min read . 24 Mar 2024

The further a galaxy is from us, the faster it is receding from us. In other words, the red shift of a given galaxy doesn’t just tell us how fast it is moving; it is also a measure of its distance from us.

Don’t take tension, but the universe expands

5 min read . 21 Mar 2024

Bitcoin on 13 March hit a record high of over $73,600.

My crypto journey: A high, and two lows

4 min read . 16 Mar 2024

With the sweeping democratization of computing that AI brings, potentially all eight billion of us become creators and builders, as instructing machines becomes a matter of speaking as we socially do.

We must learn to be more human in the age of artificial intelligence

3 min read . 15 Mar 2024

Gokhale bridge at Andheri in Mumbai reopened after 15 months of repair work following a partial collapse of the bridge.

Things a few calculations tell us

5 min read . 14 Mar 2024

If you had too much exposure to the racy segments of the stock market, you took quite a bit of a knock. (Image: Pixabay)

March 2024 treating your portfolio badly? Read this…

5 min read . 14 Mar 2024

Section 19 of the State Bank of India Act gives the government the right to appoint a chairman and four managing directors as well as a majority of non-executive directors to the bank’s board. (Photo: Mint)

Election fever grips Bollywood and India’s financial sector

4 min read . 11 Mar 2024

Pluto was “reclassifed” in 2006—as a “dwarf planet”. It still goes around the Sun, but it no longer qualified as a full-fledged planet, like the other eight.

Searching for an invisible Ninth

5 min read . 08 Mar 2024

Sebi has warned about froth building up in small and midcap segments. Image: Pixabay

Small and midcap funds: Sebi steps in. When will you?

4 min read . 04 Mar 2024

For shareholders qualifying as NRI, dividend income is taxable at the rate of 20% plus applicable surcharge and 4% health and education cess (maximum marginal rate of 28.5%) on a gross basis

A need to address interest and dividend income mismatch issue

3 min read . 04 Mar 2024

Congress has more than 650 MLAs around the country, and about 120 million voters supported it in the previous Lok Sabha elections. (Photo: PTI)

The Congress has to mend it ways to remain in the fray

3 min read . 04 Mar 2024

Its advanced data analysis capabilities can monitor election-related data in real-time, identifying any irregularities suggesting fraudulent activity.

There’s also a positive side of GenAI that can strengthen democracy

3 min read . 01 Mar 2024

How many grains of sand on our planet Earth? Right at this instant, there is some gargantuan number that answers that question, though I have no idea what it is, nor how to get its value, nor even how to estimate it.

The finite that hints at the infinite

5 min read . 29 Feb 2024

By considering tax efficiency as well, you'll be on a smarter path to maximizing your investment success. (Image: Pixabay)

An investing mistake I made, which I do not plan on repeating

3 min read . 26 Feb 2024

Mutual funds: Simplifying market entry with diversification, expert management, and accessibility.

How mutual funds are tapping into the bull market

3 min read . 24 Feb 2024

When the Bandra-Worli Sea Link opened in 2009, plenty of Mumbaikars drove across for a joyride, resulting in a huge rush in those first few days. The rush subsided as the novelty wore off.

A spectacular bridge that few use

5 min read . 22 Feb 2024

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella told a gathering of “developers and technological leaders” in Bengaluru that India was expected to overtake the US as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027. (AP)

Rhetoric or reality: Focus on per capita

5 min read . 15 Feb 2024