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.
The rapid expansion of big tech firms and artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping India’s competition landscape, prompting closer regulatory scrutiny, Ravneet Kaur
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”
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
India's focus should be on developing expertise in achieving the required mineral purity levels and strengthening its chemical engineering capabilities
AI's benefits come with competition risks, CCI chair Ravneet Kaur warns, calling for greater transparency, accountability and a balanced approach to digital regulation
