Twenty-five years after its launch, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) stands as one of independent India’s most transformative — and costliest — rural infrastructure programmes. Conceived...
The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2023–24 reveals a trend that sits uneasily with India’s expanding welfare and healthcare ambitions: tobacco consumption is rising rapidly, spreading across regions...
For nearly four decades, space exploration was dominated by government agencies and expendable rockets — powerful, complex, and used just once. That era is now giving way to...
The global economy today is shaped as much by long-standing inequalities as by rapid technological shifts. While the North–South divide in income and resource consumption endures, new frontier...
Across the world’s two most populous countries, young people are increasingly being seen not just as beneficiaries of development, but as its primary drivers. In both China and...
A brief, nearly two-hour visit to New Delhi by UAE President and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — marked by a single meeting with...
The global pivot to electric vehicles (EVs) is often portrayed as a clean technological leap — quieter roads, lower emissions, and freedom from fossil fuels. Yet beneath this...
The opening days of 2026 delivered a jolt to the international system. In a swift, unilateral operation, the United States abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife,...
India added more than 45 GW of clean energy capacity in 2025, signalling that renewables are no longer peripheral to its power system. With round-the-clock renewable energy tenders...
On New Year’s Eve, a planned nationwide strike by platform and gig workers brought an unresolved legal and moral question back into sharp focus: what exactly is the...
Global warming does not wait for politics. Heatwaves, cyclones, erratic monsoons and floods move faster than election cycles and budget seasons. They also ignore borders. On January 7–8,...
On January 21, 1968, a United States Air Force bomber carrying four thermonuclear weapons crashed onto the frozen ice near Thule Air Base in Greenland. What followed —...
