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Branding and visibility: Lessons for VB-G RAM G from MGNREGA
Branding and visibility: Lessons for VB-G RAM G from MGNREGA
7 min read
As India retools its flagship rural jobs programme, the battle is not only over design and delivery, but over communication, recall, and who truly claims the scheme
More First-Time Offenders, More Convictions: Reading Telangana’s 2025 Jail Data
More First-Time Offenders, More Convictions: Reading Telangana’s 2025 Jail Data
3 min read
The state’s prison admissions rose nearly 12%, with the sharpest increases coming in drunk driving and cyber crime, alongside a steep rise in convictions
India’s Internet Stocks Are in Reset Mode as Investors Await Earnings Clarity: Morgan Stanley
India’s Internet Stocks Are in Reset Mode as Investors Await Earnings Clarity: Morgan Stanley
1 min read
After a bruising 2025, India’s internet stocks are in reset mode, with investors waiting for earnings downgrades to stabilise before re-rating the sector
Crypto's Most Abundant Resource Is Going to Waste
Crypto's Most Abundant Resource Is Going to Waste
5 min read
Crypto is rich in risk but poor in the infrastructure needed to capture its value
Love Thy Stranger: What Brands Really Gain from Pop-Culture Tie-Ins
Love Thy Stranger: What Brands Really Gain from Pop-Culture Tie-Ins
4 min read
Stranger Things has turned Hawkins into a global marketing playground. Brands gain visibility, but Netflix owns the cultural moment. Can tie-ins create lasting brand value, or do they only ride the wa ...
Why Trump’s Iran Trade Warning Worries Indian Rice Exporters
Why Trump’s Iran Trade Warning Worries Indian Rice Exporters
2 min read
Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on Iran-linked trade could disrupt India’s Basmati rice exports, hitting payments, prices and farmer incomes, warns the Indian Rice Exporters Federation.
BRICS 2026: India Sets the Agenda with New Logo and Digital Platform
BRICS 2026: India Sets the Agenda with New Logo and Digital Platform
2 min read
India launched the official logo and website for BRICS 2026, signalling its priorities as chair of the expanded grouping, which now represents nearly half the world’s population and 40% of global GDP
Tiger Deaths Rise in Numbers, But India’s Conservation Story Holds Firm
Tiger Deaths Rise in Numbers, But India’s Conservation Story Holds Firm
2 min read
India lost 167 tigers in 2025, but mortality stayed under 5%, underscoring conservation success even as experts warn that rising populations demand stronger safeguards beyond reserves
Inside Paramount Skydance’s Legal Challenge to WBD–Netflix Deal
Inside Paramount Skydance’s Legal Challenge to WBD–Netflix Deal
2 min read
Paramount Skydance has sued Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing its $30-per-share all-cash offer is superior to Netflix’s deal and accusing WBD of failing to disclose key financial details to shareholders
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2026 Forecast: The Modernisation Momentum
2026 Forecast: The Modernisation Momentum
Modi will persist with reforms and deregulation despite the pressure of hard-fought elections in several states
2026 Forecast: Politics: The Battle for Regional Supremacy
Powerful state politicians like MK Stalin, Mamata Banerjee and Pinarayi Vijayan will be fighting for dominance and survival
What Marxism taught me about the world around me
Born in an illustrious communist family, the writer reflects on how Marxism helped him develop a strong historical imagination
A major reform push helped Modi Govt boost growth, tackle tariff & other challenges
Bold initiatives, bolstered by BJP winning key state polls, made 2025 the year of reforms aimed at revving the economy and improving the lives of common citizens. Sweeping reduction in tax liabilities ...
Thackeray Cousins Formally Reunite Ahead Of BMC Polls
With a call to Marathis to not get divided and waste their vote, Uddhav and Raj frame their alliance as the one ‘Maharashtra was waiting for’
Karnataka’s hate speech law could test limits of state action on free speech
The bill expands penalties and definitions beyond existing criminal law and is likely to be tested in court
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