India’s rising incomes making homes more affordable: Report

IANS | December 3, 2025 12:15 PM

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) India’s fast-rising incomes have made buying a home far more affordable over the past decade and a half, with the country’s price-to-income ratio dropping sharply from 88.5 in 2010 to 45.3 in 2025, a new report said on Wednesday.

India must catch up and leapfrog in AI: Abhishek Singh of MeitY & India AI Mission

IANS | December 3, 2025 12:01 PM

Mumbai, Dec 3 (IANS) India is preparing to pull AI into the core of its digital public infrastructure, a shift that Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and CEO of the India AI Mission, said is becoming urgent as the country’s AI usage rises faster than its capacity to build domestic systems.