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Rise of Fake News at a tense time

Since India’s retaliation of the February 15th Pulwama attack, the internet, social media and other platforms have been flooded with fake news. Pictures and videos have been extensively circulated on…

Quantum Computing- Race to the Edge

While Moore’s Law or the exponential growth of integrated circuits refers to the fifth paradigm of computation, Quantum Computers may well be the sixth paradigm, given that they work in a fashion…

Handling-with-care: China's Wolf-warriors

Every economy has taken a hit, which means that trade issues will become a big part of foreign policy [...] Everyone’s instinct is self-reliance… China responds ultimately to the relative balance of…

Renouncing the Head, but Not the Family

Barbados is set to bid adieu to the Queen as their sovereign but will remain a part of the Commonwealth for economic and socio-political advantages

Accenture ties up with IITs for research into Artificial Intelligence

The focus areas of the program includes research in natural language processing, machine learning, neural network, virtual agents, deep learning and other areas of artificial intelligence.

Notre-Dame fire and misinformation

One of this year’s darkest events was the burning of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, France. While the citizens of the country and the world prayed and mourned for the architectural disaster,…

End of a Decade- End of Teens-Part 2

As a sequel to our first part on the ‘Decade that Was’, we now look at Climate Change, Health Care and Technology and how they are shaping our future.

'Each Year the Electorate Becomes a Little Less British and a Little More Scottish'

Lord Desmond Henry Browne, former Secretary of State for Scotland, and former Secretary of State for Defence in the UK, shares with Synergia Foundation, his thoughts on the Scots' demand for…

Longer the Virus Stay, Wider the Gender Divide

The adverse impact of the pandemic is threatening gender –regressive effects if immediate steps are not taken to counter it. Its implications are far wider than was initially perceived.

The tragedy of Kashmir

India and Pakistan have fought four wars over it, and remain on tenterhooks with their forces deployed along the borders facing each other in tripwire readiness for the last seven decades. Both…

Kremlin critic and journalist Arkady Babchenko

Prominent Kremlin critic and journalist Arkady Babchenko staged his death with help from Ukrainian authorities to thwart an alleged Russian assassination plot.

COVID-19 Pandemic: Test for Leadership

The COVID-19 pandemic, is the third challenge that Mother Nature has thrown our species, in recent years.

Passing the Baton of Abe's Legacy

The new prime minister stands to inherit a hard-won battle of rebranding Japan, but with it comes the baggage of a sluggish economy, the pandemic and geopolitical worries.

NE India-COPING WITH THE PANDEMIC

Migratory patterns have caused a spike in cases in the northeast, where the absence of critical healthcare and job security worsens the situation

The Ray of Hope- Haji Ali

Have Indian women finally acquired equality in religion?

Duterte in hospital?

A recent news flourished as to how President Rodrigo Duterte was rushed to the hospital after his third State of the Nation Address. However, the Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press…

Post-lockdown expectations

There is lack of definite information, so strategies are based on conjecture: said T.M. Vijay Bhaskar, at the Synergia Foundation webinar.

Too Little, Too Late?

Even as the rich and developed countries steadily emerge out of the stranglehold of the pandemic, developing countries can only look longingly at vaccines that remain out of their reach.

Pandemic Support Over Debt Servicing

With the pandemic having driven government fiscals round the bend, the need of the hour is for medium-term credible financial consolidation

The perils of de-monetization

While the idea is good, is the Government lethargic in implementation?