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Can India be the world’s food factory? | BS Manthan

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.

At BS Manthan Pralhad Joshi outlines storage push for 500 GW target by 2030

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

Big tech, AI expansion raise competition risks: CCI chief at BS Manthan

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

Global disruption not a setback, but an opening: Amitabh Kant at BS Manthan

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?

EAC-PM Chairman underlines 3 development goals for vision 2047

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

Design, IP key to India's factory future: Dixon's Atul Lall at BS Manthan

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

BS Manthan: Experts urge green data centre policy as AI power use surges

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

A fireside chat with Sanjiv Puri, Chairman & Managing Director, ITC Limited | BS Manthan

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

AI, EVs, hydrogen to power India's 2047 Vision: Nitin Gadkari at BS Manthan

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

India may need a productivity commission, says NITI Aayog's Suman Bery | BS Manthan

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

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

India needs to prioritise building own foundational AI models: Experts

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

Policy uncertainty, export bans hurting farm ecosystem: Agri-startup execs

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

Agricultural shift from subsidies to sustainability may be the way ahead

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

Business Standard Manthan 2026: Global flux drives new growth conversation

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

Hard power, self-reliance underpin strategic autonomy, say experts

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

In India, AI will rise from the bottom of the pyramid: Shekhar Kapur

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

R&D-linked incentives to drive India's high-end manufacturing push: Experts

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

AI ecosystem opaque, needs accountability: CCI chairperson Ravneet Kaur

AI's benefits come with competition risks, CCI chair Ravneet Kaur warns, calling for greater transparency, accountability and a balanced approach to digital regulation