Decoding protein puzzle and brilliance of algorithm accuracy
AI has made significant strides in decoding proteins, with positive implications for drug delivery and design
Future of facial recognition technology and trouble with data privacy
Facial analysis tech can come only after a data privacy law
RBI’s options narrow as inflation & inflows both rise
Keeping repo unchanged is an obvious choice, the bigger challenge is the balance between inflation and rupee value
CoinToss: Facebook is set to launch a stripped-down Libra next year
While the company had more ambitious plans, due to its failure to convince regulators across the world, it has been more than willing to tweak Libra.
Supporting Education: Girls are more likely to bear the brunt of pandemic
New report shows girls are more likely to bear the brunt of the pandemic in terms of the hit to education
Data drive: Slight respite in infection growth
Although daily infections have been falling and have stayed below 45,000 in the last week,the Centre has released stricter guidelines for the next reopening.
McKinsey Report: Chilling news for India on global warming
McKinsey report paints a dire climate picture for India which it can’t escape without coordinated global action
COVID-19 Vaccine: Learn from AstraZeneca lapses
Tighten trial, manufacturing oversight and regulatory scrutiny
PCI’s directive on ‘foreign contents’ and its chilling effect on media freedom
The chilling effect this is likely to have on a free media doesn’t bode well for a healthy democracy.
Equal access to subsidies: Why not give LPG subsidies to a privately-owned BPCL?
What is not clear, either then or now, is why the government is uneasy about giving subsidies to customers of private entities.
Strike Against New Labour Laws: Labour unions or labour aristocracy?
Trade unions can’t do much good if their membership is confined, as it is today, to a fraction of the working class
Aarogya Setu App: Releasing source code will build trust
India needs to follow the Singapore example for Aarogya Setu, release source code in its entirety
UP’s ordinance against so-called ‘love jihad’ is prone to misuse, can become a tool of harassment
Not only does this bring in arbitrariness—what will be acceptable as proof, what extent of ‘proof’ would be deemed enough?—it also vitiates against the principles of personal liberty.
Need new laws for real-time tax dispute resolution
If relief given via mediation is to be questioned later, as is likely, no taxman is going to embrace the FM’s new plan
Get cybersecurity right: Mumbai power failure shows firefighting can’t be a response
The National Cybersecurity Policy is yet to be updated, seven years after the last one was released; bear in mind, threats and vulnerabilities are evolving almost literally by the minute.
Chilling EFFECT of amended Kerala Police Act
The Kerala govt should have never proposed to police cyber content in a manner that muzzles free speech
National Sports Education Board should help India realise its sporting potential
The National Sports Education Board should help India realise its sporting potential.
Carefully designed regulation for online gaming is need of the hour
Pushing online gambling/gaming-with-wagers underground via bans, like Tamil Nadu’s, doesn’t really tackle the harm they can do
Data drive: Global concerns
On Friday,India became the second country in the world to cross 9 million infections. While daily cases have come down from the high of 95,000 these touched in September, India can’t afford to be lax if the latest trends fr
RISC Return: Apple’s bet on ARM processors pays off only if mainline companies rejig their apps to be compatible
‘System on a chip’—which is what ARM fundamentally is—is the future of computing; this integrates all CPU power, RAM and processing on a single chip.
The asymptomatics riddle: Role in Covid-19 spread unclear; enforce mask-use, distancing
The lack of a standard definition for pre-symptomatics—in terms of a threshold duration before the onset of symptoms, or some such yardstick—plays its part too.
BSNL 4G tender cancellation: Atmanirbharta has a heavy price, do we want to pay it?
BSNL’s 4G tender is a good example of this, but there is a larger cost as supply costs rise; we need to be aware of this
New study shows online teaching isn’t working for govt-school students, exacerbating existing learning gaps
While 80% said they were unable to develop a connect with the students via online teaching, 90% said that it was impossible to assess how much students were learning.
Joe Biden’s green touch: Republicans will likely cold-water incoming US President’s hot climate agenda
The Biden presidency will have to rely on executive action while negotiating support for items that could broadly come under a bipartisan agenda.
Rework budget to allow for social security for all
Govt has done well to come up with a plan for unorganised sector; will work better if it also contributes to the corpus
RBI does well to merge Lakshmi Vilas Bank with DBS
Move will protect depositors; could have been done a few years ago when LVB first ran into difficulties
Justice can’t be selective: CJI Bobde is both right and wrong on Article 32
SC needs to keep in mind that while lower courts should be petitioned first, there is a big pendency that delays matters; and to the extent this means matters get delayed, this delays justice for those accused of a crime.
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