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Mentoring India’s Youth: Why Skills, Confidence and Networks Matter as Much as Degrees

India is at a demographic crossroads. With over 40 million students in higher education and more than 10 million young people entering the labour market every year, the...

January 16, 2026

India’s Critical Minerals Diplomacy: What Its Global Partnerships Have Delivered—and What Needs Fixing

India’s clean energy transition—from electric vehicles and batteries to renewables and grid-scale storage—rests on minerals it largely does not produce at home. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements...

January 16, 2026

Why India’s Ultra-Low Inflation Numbers Don’t Match Household Reality

India’s retail inflation figure of 1.33% for December 2025 appears, on paper, to mark a remarkable easing of price pressures. Yet for most households, this number feels disconnected...

January 16, 2026

When ‘Smoking Guns’ Mislead: Why Physics Is Rethinking Breakthrough Claims in Exotic Materials

In frontier areas of physics, discoveries often hinge on subtle signals buried deep in noisy data. For researchers chasing topological materials and exotic superconductivity—systems that could one day...

January 16, 2026

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....

January 16, 2026

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...

January 15, 2026

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...

January 15, 2026

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...

January 15, 2026

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...

January 15, 2026

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...

January 15, 2026

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