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Why have SLBCs/UTLBCs been asked to report SC beneficiary data for key government schemes for jobs and entrepreneurship? | Explained
Image used for representation purpose only. The story so far: The Finance Ministry has now directed State-level and UT-level Bankers’ Committees to mandatorily include data on the percentage share of SC beneficiaries availing flagship Central schemes such as the Mudra Yojana, Stand Up India, Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme, MSME/business loans, and others. This direction…
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Strait of Hormuz transits at lowest in over two months after attacks, data shows
A view of Strait of Hormuz. Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The number of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz fell to the lowest in more than two months after attacks on tankers in the key waterway reached their highest last week since the start of the US-Israeli war…
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India’s trade caught in the middle
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday that India-U.S. trade talks have reached a “plateau” and further concessions from either side might be difficult. To begin with, those celebrating India extracting a great trade deal from the U.S. miss the point. While a deal with some relaxations may be better than no deal, we have…
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Property taxation needs structural reform
There are three life stages of property tax — enumeration (identification of properties and maintenance of property records along with property details), property valuation and tax assessment, and tax billing and collection. Representative file image used. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A robust property tax system is vital for India’s cities. Property tax is not…
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Iceland courts India for geothermal, CCUS, ‘carbon-to-stone’ technologies
Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, Iceland’s Minister for the Energy, Environment and Climate. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement. Iceland is confident about the opportunities emerging in India’s evolving geothermal energy landscape and believes regulatory challenges can be overcome, Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, Iceland’s Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate, told The Hindu on the sidelines of his visit…
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Harness engineering is how AI developers are now trying to make agents work reliably | Explained
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The story so far: For the past few years, improving AI largely meant improving what the model was told and what it could see. Prompt engineering emerged as a way of giving models better instructions. As tasks grew more complex, the focus expanded to…