The Ken has learnt that the Centre is holding deeper discussions on allowing private schools to run as for-profit entities to encourage transparency and long-term steady growth
Fly me to the moon—and back, despite PSLV failures
Isro may be losing its grip, but the country’s 300 active space startups are only just finding theirs
Why the new education bill is the opposite of what India needs
Delinking funding from regulation is certainly not about efficiency
‘India missed one robotics bus. The next one is still catchable’
Ranjit Date built Pari Robotics, sold it to Wipro, and is back to filling the gaps, betting that India still has a narrow window in robotics, despite China’s lead
The fine print of a growing nation, 2025 edition
The first year of Make India Competitive Again
India’s AI still doesn’t speak India. Can it?
Datasets in Indian languages either solve for efficiency or quality. But all of them hurt dialects and are overly standardised, missing the point of linguistic reality
Packaged food intelligence is finally here. Will brands beat regulators in adopting this?
While the FSSAI stalls on warning labels for food packages, Natfirst (Truthin) wants to tell consumers what’s in their food directly
Digital fraud is a human problem. There’s no app for that
The real fix is behavioural change, stronger onboarding, and mission-mode education
India’s new labour rules expose the overtime glitch
The Centre’s code shortchanges both full-time employees and gig workers, but the solution to beat it also lies in the code
Can a PE firm not be greedy? A US firm’s India IPO offers a clue
Tenneco Clean Air proves that conservative pricing can still spark a strong listing
Indian VCs’ newfound love for deep tech: a step change or in lockstep?
A $12 billion investment saga for the ages, starting soon from New Delhi
Fewer cases, longer wait: India’s antitrust cops must fix this math
The Competition Commission’s slowdown comes just as the AI economy demands quicker oversight
India’s first data-centre IPO shows what to fix before India can scale AI
Laws, land, and liquidity can fund Sify’s rise. But until the grid holds, India’s AI story will keep rebooting
What 1,500 responses from The Ken’s readers reveal about ChatGPT in schools
GenAI is for the staff room, not the classroom
States confuse cheap with sustainable in battery-storage gold rush
A race is on to forget important lessons from solar and wind
