Ajai Shukla

News, views, and AI: How bots threaten the future of news

From June 2024 to June 2025, the top 10 English language publications in India lost 20-30 per cent of their online audience, according to media analytics firm Comscore

News, views, and AI: How bots threaten the future of news publishing

From June 2024 to June 2025, the top 10 English language publications in India lost 20-30 per cent of their online audience, according to media analytics firm Comscore

India's Rocket Force Debate Intensifies After Operation Sindoor: Structure, Jointness

India's Rocket Force Debate Intensifies After Operation Sindoor: Structure, Jointness

Market Technicals : legally untenable and an attempt to undermine the legi

MoEF trying to 'subvert' FRA: Over 90 forest rights groups writes to PM

India eyes multi-phase trade deal with US, interim pact likely before July

The talks are still ongoing and there's no clarity if the Trump administration has agreed to a three-stage process for a trade deal

Turkiye, Azerbaijan boycott: Passport as an instrument of peaceful protest

Withholding economic benefits - like tourism revenues - can impel nations to pause and reflect. Even if it doesn't lead to immediate change, it conveys the sentiment of Indians

Gold price dips ₹10 to ₹95,170, silver price falls ₹100 to ₹99,700

The price of 22-carat gold declined ₹10, with ten grams of the yellow metal selling at ₹87,190

GlaxoSmithKline hits 20% upper circuit on posting 400% jump in Q3 PAT

The company posted a multifold jump per cent in consolidated net profit to Rs 230 crore as compared to Rs 46 crore a year ago

Arkade Developers bags cluster redevelopment project with GDV of Rs 1.7k cr

The project will offer a total saleable area of approximately 6.76 lakh square feet

Centre starts talks for retaliatory measures against EU steel tariff

Trade bloc to continue with tariff imposed on Indian steel since 2018

India vs Australia 3rd ODI Highlights:

All-round Australia win by 66 runs, India take series 2-1

Hindustan Aeronautics launches third assembly line of Tejas jets

HAL also proposes to remove 300 kg of dead weight distributed across the Mark I to balance the fighter evenly

Defining India-US relations

Defence cooperation is fizzling out with no big-ticket procurement driving forward the relationship

Guns vs Butter-5: 'India can make do with defence spend of 2% of GDP'

The last of a 5-part series points out that the Standing Committee on Defence report says India will not be able to absorb much more on defence

India's defence equipment exports reach Rs 16,000 crore this year

This amounts to a ten-fold increase since 2016-17, when exports were Rs 1,521 crore

Guns vs Butter-4: We took giant leap with the Tejas, says Indian Air Force

In the fourth of a five-part series, the IAF assures the Standing Committee on Defence that its fighter fleet is not too diverse and each fighter has its use

Guns vs Butter-III: Much of Army's war-fighting equipment remains vintage

The third of a five-part series looks at the state of the Army's weaponry and the need for greater funding to transition to a more state-of-the-art arsenal

Govt signs Rs 19,600-crore deal to buy patrol, missile vessels

The construction of these ships will generate employment of 4.5 million man-days over a period of nine years

Guns vs Butter-II: Indian military's quest for indigenous weaponry

The second of a five-part series takes a close look at the military's push for acquisition of defence equipment from domestic sources rather than from overseas

Guns vs Butter-I: House panel welcomes larger funds allocation

The first of a five-part series analyses the military's capex demand versus allocation. The recent report of the parliamentary standing committee on defence provides the backdrop