Business Standard Editorial Comment

The most striking finding is the presence of uranium contamination across North India

It is easy to see that these rules require airlines to accelerate their pilot and crew hiring programmes. In fact, the FDTL norms are not the only compulsion to do so

We needs to build safer road networks. Stricter enforcement of road laws is essential, supported by technology such as automated surveillance, e-challaning, speed-detection cameras & AI-based tracking

In a situation where the balance of payments has turned negative, the currency would be expected to depreciate and act as a stabiliser

This would in effect install in every smartphone a backdoor, which could be a threat to privacy and security

However, Google's recent launch of Gemini3 has served as a good advertisement for the capability of its TPUs, which were used to develop the new model

This much is clear from an internal assessment of the Forest Survey of India, which is reported to have stated that more than 90 per cent of the Aravallis falls below 100 metres

The key message from this 10-year study is that despite policy intervention and technological improvement, India's major cities continue to suffer major air-quality challenges

India's GDP surged 8% in the first half, defying global headwinds, but weak nominal growth and slowing tax revenues raise fresh questions ahead of the MPC's policy review

The brothers, who had managed to abscond on the Albanian passport in 2017 and were running an oil and gas business in Nigeria, had a long list of cases against them

In the context of fiscal management, the IMF noted that with a revision in the gross domestic product base in 2026, India should revisit debt targets to make them more ambitious

Further, development-aid cuts could lead to 4.5 million additional under-five deaths by 2030 and push six million children out of school by next year

The MPC reduced the policy repo rate by 100 basis points this year, and its decision in the December meeting will depend largely on how it expects the inflation rate to evolve in the coming quarters

From the point of view of optimal urban-traffic management and, indirectly, urban pollution and public-health objectives, this exemption could, however, be seen as unexceptionable

In a world where AI can be weaponised as easily as it can be used for the public good, the cost of inaction could be heavy

cGiven modern financial engineering, this effort is not absolutely straightforward, but it is one that many major economies are undertaking in an age of increasing geoeconomic contestation

Erratic monsoon rains, longer dry periods, and more frequent floods mean India can no longer rely on historical rainfall patterns for planning

The headline omission in the agreement is the critical road map for the phaseout of fossil fuels

While the Centre is expected to publish the draft rules and notify them in due course, state governments have made significant moves

This concern is particularly relevant today, when prolonged air pollution episodes, groundwater depletion, deforestation, and climate impacts already impose enormous health and economic costs