Opinion

The paradox of a 'women-friendly' sector

Rural women continue to spend nearly 286 minutes per day on household chores and caregiving - almost seven times more than men

Data centres aren't India's water villain

India's water crisis has been created by decades of treating water as free. Prosecuting the newest useralone would be a policy failure

Himalayan blunders

The fact that the Himalayas are also a zone of high seismic activity adds to the instability and unpredictability of this phenomenon

Innovative acquisitions

Comparing AI's infrastructural significance to landmark inventions like steam engine and the internet, Mr Chandrasekaran pointed out that AI was an opportunity that would unlock demand

Best of BS Opinion: Durable progress depends on systems that work

Numbers, brands and ideas may all signal progress, but it's systems, these pieces tell us, that actually decide the durability of progress

The Growth Surprise: Another blockbuster GDP print for India

India's economy has shown resilience despite tariffs and the West Asia conflict, with strong domestic demand, healthier balance sheets and investment supporting growth

Solar heat: A market waiting to be created

For these industries, their operating costs would be substantially lower if they used solar thermal systems, as solar radiation is free unlike diesel and gas

Power reforms need an urgent push

Power regulation is failing India and needs to be overhauled

The product guys

It gave up work on creating an Apple-branded electric vehicle - a decade-long effort called Project Titan - in 2024, even though it poured cash into the project and recruited aggressively

Beating the odds

The data from the expenditure side showed that private final consumption expenditure increased 7.1 per cent during the quarter, an improvement over the previous year but below the headline rate

Best of BS Opinion: Buffers cannot carry a system forever

As these pieces tell us, stability will not come from stockpiles, settlements, symbolic defences or inherited structures alone. It will come from the capacity to adapt when old buffers no longer hold

Exim Matters: India needs higher cargo volumes to attract sailings

India's exporters and importers face soaring freight costs and shipping disruptions, but subsidies may not be the answer as global shipping undergoes a technology transition

India's R&D inflection moment

India's R&D spending has hit a record 0.84% of GDP, but reaching the global technology frontier will require much higher private-sector investment and smarter public funding

Round number skirmishes

A familiar script plays out regularly with the government fighting rupee depreciation

What next? Deciding what to do after achieving financial freedom

Financial freedom is only half the journey. The harder question is what you want your money to make possible once you no longer need to work

Terms of engagement

If Meta is forced to abandon the engagement-algorithm for its most committed users, and if other platforms follow suit, the industry will undergo a tectonic shift

Rising forex reserves

Besides the uncertainty in West Asia, India must also be prepared for shifts in global financial conditions

Using tech to predict the next natural disaster, strengthen early warnings

Advanced algorithms and satellite networks are transforming real-time climate forecasting to save lives around the world

A quiet revolution is lifting the poor

Much has been said about over-lending and defaults. Here's how lending works for the bottom-of-the-pyramid

When rivals appeal for Imran

Given how arrogant and self-loving Imran is, he may not be capable of introspection even in the isolation of Adiala jail. The harsh truth is that he played the same game when it suited him