Small-cap mutual funds have emerged as the fastest-growing equity category in India, with investor folios expanding nearly five-fold over the past five years. This surge reflects growing retail...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains stubbornly difficult to treat not because antibiotics are weak, but because the bacterium learns to survive inside the body’s own immune cells. A new study...
The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 — or the SHANTI Bill — has triggered a sharp debate over transparency in governance....
The recent intervention by the Reserve Bank of India, which briefly strengthened the rupee by selling US dollars in the market, has once again drawn attention to a...
The Bank of Japan’s decision to raise interest rates to 0.75 per cent — the highest in nearly three decades — marks a subtle but consequential shift in...
India’s direct tax numbers for the current financial year show a mixed picture: collections are rising, but refunds are slowing sharply. While this has helped prop up net...
India’s ambition to achieve near-universal literacy by 2030 has run into a familiar governance challenge: uneven state participation. The Union government’s flagship adult literacy programme, ULLAS, has made...
Step out into Delhi on a winter morning and you inhale the equivalent of several cigarettes. This is no longer a startling statistic but a grim routine. What...
Twenty years ago, India set a global benchmark in welfare policy by enacting the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. At a time when many developing countries were retreating...
Public debate on welfare reform is both inevitable and desirable, especially when it concerns a flagship employment guarantee that has shaped rural livelihoods for over a decade. The...
