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India’s goal of becoming the world’s food factory will depend not only on boosting exports but also on fixing deep structural problems, experts said at BS Manthan on Wednesday.

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi laid out a roadmap to 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030, backed by falling solar tariffs

The rapid expansion of big tech firms and artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping India’s competition landscape, prompting closer regulatory scrutiny, Ravneet Kaur

If global supply chains are breaking, can India help rebuild them? And as AI reshapes the world, can India shape it in its own image?

Professor S Mahendra Dev, chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)

Can India truly become a global electronics powerhouse? And what will it take to move from assembling devices to owning intellectual property?

India will need to factor in the green energy component in its data centre policy framework as the country’s ever-expanding digital footprint

Being consumer-centric and continuously evolving with contemporary trends is paramount for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies

What will it take to make India future-ready by 2047? Faster highways, cheaper electric vehicles, hydrogen at $1 per kg, zero toll queues and safer roads, said Union minister Nitin Gadkari

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Suman Bery on Tuesday suggested that the government’s policy think tank could consider rebranding itself as “Productivity Commission”

Role of AI and its impact on markets: In conversation with Chris Wood & Nilesh Shah | BS Manthan

At BS Manthan, experts said India must build sovereign foundational AI models and boost compute, skills and data safeguards, warning that dependence on foreign systems risks digital neo-colonialism

Agri-startup executives said policy unpredictability hits processors first but the impact eventually reaches farmers through lower prices and altered sowing decisions

Ramesh Chand argued that India already looks like a "world power" in rice but added that ambition has to be filtered through desirability and consequences

Through the day, the Manthan fireside chats and panel discussions sparked a unique debate on making India future-ready through the prism of energy transition, food security, technology, self-reliance

India's strategic autonomy hinges on stronger hard power, a scaled-up military-industrial base, and technological self-reliance, panellists said at Business Standard Manthan

AI will democratise movie making, said the director who is making a sequel of Masoom

India's focus should be on developing expertise in achieving the required mineral purity levels and strengthening its chemical engineering capabilities