Meta’s Muse Spark Open enters the US-China AI race
Meta’s release of Muse Spark Open, a model designed for coding and tasks that require AI agents to work over extended periods, marks an attempt to regain lost ground in…
Meta’s release of Muse Spark Open, a model designed for coding and tasks that require AI agents to work over extended periods, marks an attempt to regain lost ground in…
40 years ago October 20, 1986: The Kampuchea question
Surjit Bhalla’s article (‘An entitled generation and an Opposition that protests too much’, IE, October 17) is a good occasion to revisit the big question: Has the Special Intensive Revision…
Has Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governance brought about winds of change? Modi has just commenced his 26th year in public office. The IDBI strategic disinvestment, the largest FDI in India’s…
India’s democracy was not a gift to its people by a benevolent ruler. It was won through a long and arduous struggle against colonial rule, a struggle in which millions…
There was a time when growing up in Mumbai or Delhi gave one a cultural head start. The newest fashion, music, Hollywood movie releases, magazines, restaurants, and brands usually reached…
On Saturday, as I was returning from the Durga Puja celebrations in West London, I learnt the ominous news of a deadly stampede at Chorbagan in North Kolkata. At least…
The first ASEAN–India Defence Think Tank Forum, organised by the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA) in New Delhi on 14–15 October 2026, was a welcome initiative…
Recent aid cuts by Western donors have sent the development landscape into a tizzy. Though aid fluctuations are not new, the backdrop of interconnected turmoil lends them strategic significance. Geopolitical…
That Blackstone wants to double its investment in India to $100 billion over five years is significant. It suggests that the world’s largest alternative asset manager — with $1.3 trillion-plus…