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...
India’s recent macroeconomic picture presents an apparent paradox. Even as strong growth and subdued prices prompted the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to cut the repo rate by 25...
India’s ambition to become a developed nation by 2047 is inseparable from the strength of its strategic capabilities. Among these, the defence industrial base has emerged as a...
On the flood-prone banks of the Kosi River, a long-standing story of isolation is nearing a structural turning point. The 13.3-kilometre Bheja–Bakaur Kosi Bridge, now in the final...
A new study by the Raman Research Institute (RRI), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology, is reshaping how astronomers estimate the mass of gas...
India’s science and technology landscape witnessed a decisive leap in 2025, with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) emerging as a central driver of innovation across...
Days after his December 4–5 visit to New Delhi, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a significant defence cooperation agreement with India — the Reciprocal Exchange of...
China’s reported development of a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine in a high-security Shenzhen laboratory marks a potentially pivotal moment in the global semiconductor contest. If the...
