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BBC's AI-powered Christie course stirs ethical storm in writing world

BBC's AI revival of Agatha Christie to teach crime writing has sparked ethical alarm - but is it really an abomination?

Hollywood made us love America - Trump's tariffs may break that bond

Tariffs may hurt Hollywood's business, but the bigger blow will be to the stories that built America's image in our minds

Peace at time of conflict: Op Sindoor sees Oppn shed discord for solidarity

Instead, the Opposition is rallying behind the government to a man and pledging full support to Operation Sindoor

Best of BS Opinion: Quiet powers that are shaping a tumultuous world

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SEAD, off-ramp, and the Pahalgam trigger: A conflict vocabulary grows

Terms like kinetic action, SEAD, and escalatory ladder now define how India and Pakistan are scripting a conflict that shows no signs of stepping off the warpath

Best of BS Opinion: India's growth, tariff shocks, and global tensions

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Civil-military synergy: More urgent than ever for national security

It is time for third-generation reforms to improve coordination between the two arms, as modern threats demand unified civilian-military responses, not siloed strategies

Signals from HDI ranking: Public delivery of social infra is key weakness

The key area in which India has recorded progress is life expectancy, which jumped from 58.6 years in 1990 to 72 years in 2023

Increasing productivity: Genome-edited rice varieties to boost yields

Critically, gene-editing technologies like SDN1 do not introduce foreign deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), distinguishing them from traditional genetically modified (GM) organisms

No, the global economy isn't falling apart despite Trump's shocks

Despite warnings of a meltdown, Trump's policies have barely dented global growth forecasts

Best of BS Opinion: Striking terror, sealing deals, and shaping debate

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Operation Sindoor mix: Surprise, optics and audacity define Indian strikes

Everybody in Pakistan, and indeed in India, knew strikes were a matter of not 'whether' but 'when'. The Modi govt utilised these 14 days after Pahalgam to build an impression that there was no hurry

Business on the borderline: Can India stay an investor magnet now?

This latest escalation, though unavoidable in political terms, is unlikely to mark the end of cross-border terrorism

State rankings 2025: A closer look at assumptions and indicators

The report ranks performance of states in terms of 7 pillars - namely, economic, fiscal, financial, infrastructural, social, governance, and environment - and works out composite index to rank states

Best of BS Opinion: Buffett leaves stage, Trump eyes films, India rewinds

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A legend retires: Berkshire Hathaway will continue to be closely followed

Mr Buffett started investing as a schoolboy with the earnings from delivering newspapers. He learnt the theoretical structure of valuation at Columbia Business School in the 1950s

Mission improbable: Donald Trump's movie tariff proposals defy logic

The notion of making Hollywood great again stems from the same concerns Mr Trump expresses for manufacturing: Jobs for production-related services, which have moved overseas.

Sense and caste census: Ambedkar's vision and the risk of reversal

The near-unanimous support for the idea from political parties is the result of differing calculations

Best of BS Opinion: Silver linings emerge in oil, politics, and trade

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US vs China: India's high-stakes economic trade walk toward self-reliance

The US wants trade partners who can supply goods that were earlier sourced from China