The integration of AI and Generative AI is not a distant aspiration — it is an active investment already reshaping how ports operate, how cargo moves, and how supply chains absorb shocks. For India and its neighbours, the imperative is clear: build the data foundations, governance frameworks, and human capabilities that allow intelligent mobility to reach not just the terminal gate, but every link in the maritime supply chain.
Companies like Google, Meta, and X constantly shape public opinion and thoughts, and store public data for commercial usage. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google host the cloud infrastructure on which states and businesses depend. These are not ordinary companies anymore; they have access to critical intelligence and data. And now AI companies like Palantir use this data for surveillance, intelligence, monitoring, and on battlefields.
While TiME FLiES travels from 18th-century Boston to 20th-century Michigan and 21st-century Provence, its soul remains anchored in South Asian philosophy. It argues that while AI may simulate the "heart and mind," the true "presence" of consciousness—the Turiya—cannot be reduced to code.
The same generative AI that allows criminals to craft perfect phishing emails in Sinhala (or Hindi, Bangla and Urdu) or clone a Chief Financial Officer's voice from a YouTube clip, can also detect those emails before they reach an inbox and flag that voice as synthetic before a payment is authorised. The technology exists. The question is whether South Asia's institutions will deploy it in time.
With the two countries reaching an "overall political agreement", the US has decided to drop the proposed 25 per cent additional duties on more than 25 Indian exports ranging from shrimps and basmati rice to gold jewellery and furniture following a settlement of the dispute over the Digital Services Tax (DST) imposed by New Delhi on some giant American companies
Pakistan's rural areas are "thriving" due to bumper crops leading to "record sales of motorcycles", said Shaukat Tarin, Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue, citing World Bank's latest data showing a drop in Pakistan's poverty level by 1 per cent
Islamabad and Moscow have agreed on a draft of the shareholders' agreement for construction of the Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline project and are set to sign the accord by February 15, 2022, the Pakistani Embassy in Moscow said on Friday
The ballooning trade deficit has compelled the government to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said, days after the IMF and the government reached a staff-level understanding for the revival of the $6 billion bailout package
India has extended an additional US$15 million for the construction of the Thila-Male Bridge, a 6.74 km-long bridge and causeway link between Male and nearby islands of Villingli, Gulhifalhu and Thilafushi
Tata Steel has executed a blockchain-enabled paperless export order with a metals major in Bangladesh
India and the United States on Tuesday outlined a roadmap for integrating the two economies across sectors and move towards an ambitious future for trade relations
India has signed a US$ 250 million loan agreement with the World Bank to improve the quality of learning for over five million students across Andhra Pradesh state in southern India
The Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai has seen one of the biggest deals signed for commercial property in recent times, with Indian firm CARS24 leasing one million square feet facility
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Pakistan government have reached a staff-level agreement for the revival of the $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) which has been stalled due to the pending review since April this year, the global lender said on Monday
Shifting regulations targeting specific sectors like edtech and fintech in China could drive venture capital investments in other parts of Asia and India would have a lot to gain going forward in the October to December (Q4) quarter of 2021, as VC investment is likely to remain slow in a number of sectors in China, UNI news agency said
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved USD 150 million in loans to Bangladesh to finance the cottage, micro, and small-sized enterprises (CMSEs) operated by youth, returning migrant workers, and rural entrepreneurs, particularly women, who have been hit hard by the COVID 19 pandemic
Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Rs 10,000-crore FMCG is making its foray into media and two channels are to be launched Friday in the presence of Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Indian Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in Kathmandu
Australia is geared to tap the projected USD 1 trillion Bengaluru-centric India's digital economy by establishing a new Consulate General in Bengaluru, known as India's tech capital
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sought an increase in taxes and other reforms from the Pakistan government before reviving its $6 billion bailout package for the country
