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India’s Startup Decade: How Startup India Rewired Entrepreneurship—and What Lies Ahead
India’s National Startup Day on January 16, 2026 marks ten years of the Startup India Initiative—a policy experiment that has since reshaped the country’s economic and innovation landscape....
Why Union Budgets Are No Longer About Tax Surprises — And What to Watch in 2026-27
For decades, India’s Union Budget was a day of tax drama — cigarette duty hikes, customs shocks, and last-minute arithmetic that could upend markets overnight. That era is...
India’s Renewable Energy Push Is Running Into a Grid Wall
India’s green energy transition is often projected as a success story of scale and speed. Renewable energy capacity has surged from about 75 GW in 2015 to nearly...
Forest Rights Act at 20: From ‘Healing Touch’ to Political Fault Line
When Parliament passed the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in 2006, it did so with rare unanimity. The law was framed as a moral and legal correction — a...
Why Defining the Aravalli Hills Has Become India’s Latest Ecological Flashpoint
Stretching nearly 680 km across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi, and older than the Himalayas by geological time, the Aravalli ranges are among India’s most critical — and...
Why India’s Urban Future Is Being Written in Small Towns, Not Megacities
India’s urban story is still narrated in the booming language of megacities — metros, corridors, smart cities and skylines. Yet beneath this familiar script, a quieter but far...
Why Reports of India Seeking Smartphone Source Code Have Triggered Alarm
Reports that the Indian government is exploring rules that could require smartphone makers to disclose their source code — and seek official clearance before pushing major software updates...
AI’s Hidden Carbon Cost: Why the Environmental Impact of Algorithms Needs Policy Attention
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely discussed as a transformative tool — from improving health diagnostics to boosting agricultural productivity. Far less attention, however, is paid to the environmental...
Iran’s Unrest Beyond the Headlines: Economic Anger, Regime Tactics, and What It Means for India
The latest wave of civic unrest in Iran has unfolded amid heavy information fog and sharply polarised narratives. Yet reducing it to binaries — regime versus people, foreign...
Havana Syndrome Is Back in the Spotlight: Is It Linked to a Secret Pentagon Device?
Nearly a decade after US diplomats first reported baffling neurological symptoms in Cuba, Havana Syndrome has returned to the centre of global attention. Fresh disclosures suggest the US...
West Bengal Nipah Scare Explained: How the Virus Spreads, Why It Rarely Turns Pandemic, and Why It Is So Deadly
A Nipah virus alert in West Bengal has once again pushed public health authorities into high-alert mode. Unlike Covid-19, Nipah does not spread easily through communities — but...
