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Digital Public Infrastructure Is Now a Strategic Battleground

WASHINGTON, DC: Wars once destroyed ports, power grids, and railways. Today, they increasingly target something less visible and far harder to replace: the digital public infrastructure (DPI)—identity platforms, payment systems, and data exchanges—on which modern societies depend. The war in Iran has exposed this fragility in ways few governments had

The Right Way to Tackle Developing Countries’ Cancer Crisis

Policymakers should also take action to improve overall living standards. Expanding trade and liberalizing markets are among the most effective

Your Degree Won’t Get You Hired—Your Skills Will

The most employable individuals of the future will not necessarily be those with the highest academic credentials, but those who

Enforce AI Guardrails Before It’s Too Late

Just as the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial satellite into orbit in 1957 jolted the United States into

Is a European Single Market for Energy Such a Good…

The level playing field required for effective competition would be secured at the EU level through rigorous carbon pricing.

Russian envoy praises Nepal ties, advocates new Eurasian partnership

Economic cooperation, in particular in hydropower, IT, agro-industry, pharma and biotechnology, transport infrastructure, including railways, tourism, as well as humanitarian

Beyond Borders: China and India Recalibrate Ties Through BRICS

As Beijing and New Delhi pursue gradual normalization, their growing convergence on BRICS and the Global South highlights a shared

Will AI Yield Abundance Without Purpose?

What makes such institutions durable is not goodwill but a simple principle: prestige should follow performance. Show up reliably and

PM Balen Shah draws hard line on Kalapani, Lipulekh: “We…

When we speak about border matters with any country, they naturally raise their objections. They (India) did raise objections, and

The Strategic Logic of the AI Arms Race

Where, then, does that leave us? As a quote often attributed to the science-fiction writer William Gibson puts it, “the future