Aadhaar data of 815m Indians in dark web, says cyber security firm

The hacker was willing to sell the entire Aadhaar and Indian passport dataset for $80,000 when contacted by Resecurity. IMAGE: Kindly note that this image has been posted for representational......

What's Xi Jinping Up To?

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist party, attended the opening session of the National People's Congress, his country's parliament, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,......

FCRA challenge for foreign think tanks in India

Funding challenges are not limited to just one think tank. Several scholars say that access for conducting research and getting foreign funds has become a major hurdle for think tanks, with the......

How Much Internet Shutdowns Cost India

India has incurred the third highest losses globally due to Internet shutdowns in 2023. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

World Bank appoints Indian national Indermit Gill as chief economist

After Kaushik Basu, Gill will be the second Indian to serve as chief economist at the World Bank. Asit Ranjan Misra reports. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Brookings Institution The World Bank has......

Rajan's mantra for stable and sustainable growth

“My remarks are motivated by the desire for a more stable international system, a system that works equally for rich and poor, large and small, and not the specifics of our situation,”......

China's confidence borders on arrogance: Expert

As global financial crisis has increased China's role in world affairs, its new confidence 'borders on arrogance' and India is not considered central to its scheme of things, an expert on China in......

'India does not have an advantage in services'

The services sector has done amazingly well for the country, but it is not 'the area where India has a long-term comparative advantage,' says an expert on the determinants of economic growth in......

Jack Brooks apologises to Pujara for racist nickname

'I have reached out and apologised to Cheteshwar for any offence that I have caused him or his family. At the time I didn't recognise this as racist behaviour.'  IMAGE: Somerset seamer Jack......