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AI’s first casualties: Entry-level young workers
Study finds early-career hiring is falling in AI-enabled roles in US, raising concerns for fresher-driven IT & services model and its long-term leadership talent pipeline, a warning India can't ignore
AI-powered platforms set to redefine India’s biopharma future: EY report
AI will transform how Indian drugmakers discover, test and manufacture medicines, shifting the industry from a generics-driven model to an integrated, innovation-led biopharma ecosystem
Indians lead globally in willingness to pay for software-defined cars
As 95% of Indian consumers say they are ready to pay for software-defined features, strong demand for connected tech, over-the-air upgrades and AI personalization is reshaping competition globally
India supercharges sovereign AI push, targets global compute scale
With national AI capacity set to cross 58,000 GPUs, the govt is accelerating investments in high-performance computing, semiconductor design, clean-energy-powered data centres, and deep-tech startups
Global hunger crisis deepens as food systems strain: UN
Climate shocks and mounting economic pressures are intensifying global hunger, disrupting food systems worldwide and pushing millions deeper into insecurity as reform efforts struggle to keep pace
India's dual-speed money shift: Cash surges even as UPI booms
Currency in circulation has climbed to record levels even as digital payments dominate everyday transactions, showing economy is expanding in cash and cashless modes, but for very different reasons
Middle class squeeze: Is income growth lagging behind aspirations?
Even as India posts world-beating GDP numbers, thinner savings buffers, rising household debt and uneven real wage gains suggest urban middle-class resilience may be real test of economy’s durability
Rural slowdown pushes Jan unemployment rate up to 5%
A seasonal dip in rural economic activity jobless rate, even as urban labour markets remained largely steady and female participation levels held broadly firm
India adds record 52 GW power capacity in FY26
Surge underscores accelerating renewable deployment and signals a structural shift in India’s energy mix and infrastructure ambitions
India’s IT jobs aren’t vanishing — they’re being rewired by AI
New ICRIER study finds generative AI boosting productivity without mass layoffs in India’s IT sector, but limited workforce training and regulatory ambiguity could impact adaptation
Median marriage age in India rises to 29 as singles delay tying the knot
Remarriage is gaining wider acceptance, with sharp rise in second-time seekers and growing interest from never-married individuals, showing gradual decline in stigma around divorce, finds Jeevansathi
The end of coding - or the end of coders?
Elon Musk's "death of coding" may be exaggerated, but generative AI is already compressing the skill itself. The real disruption is economic: when code becomes instant, labour arbitrage breaks