Pallab Bhattacharya

Pallab Bhattacharya is a special correspondent for The Daily Star.

India launches AI-based multimodal LLM for Indian languages

India has recently launched an indigenously developed AI-based multimodal large language model (LLM) for Indian languages.

2w ago

Indian startup claims to invent stroke kit to slash paralysis risk

An Indian start-up claims to have come up with a high-end med-tech kit, a life-saving intervention, for patients suffering from for treatment of acute ischemic stroke (brain stroke) which reduces the risk of long-term paralysis and disability.

2w ago

India unveils locally developed weather forecast system

India has recently unveiled the country’s first indigenously developed high-resolution weather forecast system.

3w ago

Indian Navy reconstructs ancient ship inspired by Ajanta Cave paintings

A 1,600-year-old wooden ship, long extinct and no longer in naval service anywhere in the world, has been successfully reconstructed

4w ago

Indian scientists develop a super-fast charging sodium-ion battery

A team of Indian scientists in Bengaluru has developed a super-fast charging sodium-ion battery (SIB) based on a NASICON-type cathode and anode material, that can charge up to 80% in just six minutes and last over 3000 charge cycles.

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India withdraws export ban on 100% broken rice

The world’s largest rice exporter has revoked the ban to reduce its domestic stockpile

3m ago

Docking, growing vegetables, and manufacturing in space

On January 16, India’s national space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), conducted a successful space docking (SpaDeX) operation by bridging two satellites in space, after overcoming hiccups twice.

5m ago

Could the Indian foreign secretary’s visit create positive optics?

Vikram Misri's visit to Dhaka signals efforts to stabilise Bangladesh-India ties.

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January 23, 2022
January 23, 2022

Your Netaji Versus My Netaji

A political battle to appropriate the legacy of India’s freedom struggle icon Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is going on between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

January 15, 2022
January 15, 2022

Poll amid pandemic: Voting right vs human life

On January 8, 2022, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the schedule of fresh assembly elections in five Indian states—Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa,

January 8, 2022
January 8, 2022

India’s polarised politics and media

On December 29, 2021, India’s Chief Justice NV Ramana sent out a message to the Indian media that could not have been timelier. In fact, it served as a wake-up call.

December 28, 2021
December 28, 2021

India’s Omicron challenge on multiple fronts

Since the first Omicron case of Covid-19 was detected in Karnataka on December 2, instances of the most rapidly mutating and contagious variant of the disease have been on the rise across India.

December 24, 2021
December 24, 2021

The political rumblings in India over 1971

As a teenage school student in 1971 living in Delhi, I had a limited idea about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

December 9, 2021
December 9, 2021

India-Russia ties in a changing world

As Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up his six-hour visit to New Delhi on December 6, most commentaries on India-Russia relations invariably termed it as the continuation of decades of romance that first blossomed in the Cold War era—a global geo-political scenario that is very different from what it is today.

November 30, 2021
November 30, 2021

Looking beyond the security dialogue on Afghanistan

The first conference of top national security officials of eight Asian countries on crisis-hit Afghanistan, hosted by India on November 10, sent out an important message relating to the need for preventing the war-torn country from becoming a safe haven for global terrorism once again, for an inclusive government, and an unhindered supply of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people.

November 24, 2021
November 24, 2021

No country for reforms?

It is not very often that one sees the prime minister of a country publicly tendering an apology for a job they failed to push through.

November 21, 2021
November 21, 2021

Repeal of India’s farm laws a political decision

Electoral politics in a democracy like India is all about taking the right decision at the right time and popular perception.

November 15, 2021
November 15, 2021

A billion Covid-19 jabs and India’s hope and caution

In October, India reached the important milestone of administering one billion Covid-19 vaccine doses, accomplished in 278 days since the inoculation drive was launched on January 16 this year.