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The Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission has an anonymizer module. For best use to be made of aggregate anonymized data, a secure data environment system should be adopted to keep our health records all the more secure.

The incoming president's deliberate craziness will be a study in chaos -- not strength.

There need to be many more women in cutting-edge fields of technology like semiconductors for AI. Diversity drives innovation and reduces the risk of groupthink leading a business astray.

His proposed tariffs could strengthen the dollar and revive US allegations against others of currency manipulation, even as an attempt to reduce its trade deficit could leave the world short of dollar liquidity needed for cross-border commerce.

Startling claims were made by Google for its 2019 quantum chip Sycamore too. While such powerful devices aren't about to pervade the world, digital encryption is clearly exposed to risk. Perhaps crypto assets too.

Monetary policy under Sanjay Malhotra can't afford to go by simple narratives. He will need to take into account macro level complexities of capital flows and the rupee's exchange rate as well.

The Centre's last big moves to reform agriculture were rolled back. Getting Indian states to experiment with structural change, as a new draft policy sets out to do, is now worth a try. It may help soften farmer resistance to market orientation.

The purpose of an official Bitcoin reserve proposed by the US president-elect is unclear. Perhaps it's a stand-in for gold. But Bitcoin's launch aim was to supplant all manipulable currencies. Hence, the irony of Trump's embrace.

As this year's Nobel prize winners' work shows, institutions matter to chances of prosperity. While these may have let people down, the solution is to reform them, not blow them up. It's too risky for other nations to be inspired by Trump's approach.

The 46th president laid the groundwork for US exceptionalism lasting many years, perhaps even decades, after his administration has long ended.