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Indelible Ink in Indian Elections

The purple mark on a voter’s finger is a familiar safeguard in Indian elections. It is called indelible ink and is used to prevent double voting. The recent...

 January 17, 2026

Karnataka Launches Gruha Lakshmi Digital Portal

Karnataka has launched Gruha Lakshmi Digital Marketing, a state-backed online portal to promote products made by women entrepreneurs across the state. The initiative aims to improve economic independence,...

 January 17, 2026

India’s Migration Moment in a World of FTAs

As India rapidly expands its network of Free Trade Agreements — now covering more than 50 countries, including the pact concluded with New Zealand in December 2025 —...

 January 17, 2026

Reclaiming Soil Health for Food Security

For decades, Indian agriculture has delivered impressive gains in food production. Yet, this success has quietly eroded the very foundation on which farming depends: healthy soil. As climate...

 January 17, 2026

India’s Nuclear Bet Returns

Nearly two decades after India staked major political capital on nuclear power, the country appears ready to reopen a door that never fully swung open. A new law...

 January 17, 2026

Why Data Governance Has Become a Boardroom Imperative

Recent global enforcement actions against large multinational firms — resulting in penalties running into billions of dollars — have underscored a hard truth for modern enterprises: failures in...

 January 17, 2026

Manufacturing Returns to India’s Core

For much of independent India’s economic history, manufacturing was framed more as an aspiration than a realised outcome. Policy intent existed, but fragmented infrastructure, regulatory uncertainty, and weak...

 January 17, 2026

Five Reforms for a 20-Year Growth Run

India’s 8 per cent growth in the first half of the year, alongside a near-20 per cent jump in exports in November despite global trade turbulence, signals an...

 January 17, 2026

Rethinking India’s Alcohol Policy

As India ushered in 2026, alcohol once again sat at the centre of celebration and contradiction. An estimated 12–15 million cases were consumed nationwide, even as Mumbai had...

 January 17, 2026

India’s Space Power Paradox

The failure of the PSLV-C62 mission is not merely a technical setback for the Indian Space Research Organisation. It exposes deeper structural weaknesses in India’s space ecosystem at...

 January 17, 2026

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