Policy 2

Bihar's landslide verdict cements bullish case for India's political economy

Bihar's decisive verdict proves that targeted welfare and infrastructure spending build durable political coalitions while generating the consumption demand and policy stability that investors prize

How India can retain its healthcare workers

India sends one of the highest amount of doctors and nurses abroad, but is woefully short of healthcare professionals domestically

Karnataka IT Policy: Up to Rs 50 crore in R&D reimbursements, biggest state-level incentive in India

Policy also encourages firms to shift from service-led models to product-centric innovation and early-stage prototyping to scalable technology development.

Karnataka's new IT policy eyes 90 lakh jobs by 2030, proposes return programme for overseas talent

The 2025-2030 IT policy also proposes ‘Technoverse’ technology campuses, a ‘Women in Global Tech Missions Fellowship’, and a unified digital network across innovation hubs.

No country for working women

A data-driven analysis revealing why India's marginally improving female unemployment rate masks a deeper crisis of scarce, precarious, and often unpaid work for women

OPINION | RSSFACTS: ‘Vande Mataram’ at 150: A prayer to the motherland; not a call to idolatry

RSSFACTS: It’s the song of the nation’s soul that inspires everyone. When the tendency to fragment the society on the parochial bases of caste, language, geography is on the rise, Vande Mataram is a thread that can bind us together 

OPINION | Pakistan’s Taliban miscalculation 

The Pakistani State believed that its proxy, once in power, would remain subservient. However, the Taliban’s takeover in 2021 transformed an insurgency in need of sanctuary to a ruling administration providing it

Rate cut relief or more confusion: What the Fed’s move means for India’s markets

Domestic conditions support another rate cut by the RBI. For markets to wear a bigger smile, however, much depends on this one source of funds delivering the goods

Lopsided IIP Growth: Five sectors drive gains, half of manufacturing languishes

September's industrial production data reveals a troubling paradox: while consumer durables and automobiles surge on festive demand, the broader manufacturing base is shrinking, with staples contracting and robust growth concentrated in just five of 23 sectors

Will Trump's sanctions on Russian oil trigger inflation?

A surge in non-Russian oil sources could result in a spike in oil prices, is the fear. But a look at the physical and financial market points to enough reasons why that may not happen

CRZ Reforms — Walking the fine line between growth and green

The Rajiv Gauba panel’s proposal to relax buffer norms may unlock coastal growth, but only strong safeguards can keep India’s fragile shorelines safe

Which nation will lead in the technologies that define the 21st century: US or China?

Though a late starter, China is pushing ahead in the race to develop and use critical technologies like AI, drones, robots, electric vehicles and quantum communications. The Trump administration’s immigration policy can put at risk American dominance in several technology areas, giving an edge to China

The new NPS rules add flexibility, but may also leave investors confused

Flexibility and autonomy are great things to have while investing. But investors already have that in plenty with several other investment products. Did the NPS need so much flexibility is the question

The muddled quest for Digital Swaraj

India's sporadic attempts at achieving Digital Swaraj through homegrown tech alternatives repeatedly fail due to lack of long-term strategy and commitment to world-class quality

The regulatory deficit that turns India's pharmaceutical strength into fatal weakness

Following the deaths of 14 children from the contaminated cough syrup in India—and 70 earlier deaths in Africa—urgent questions emerge about quality control in the world's largest generic drug manufacturer

Before the ASEAN Summit: India's rush to fix a broken trade agreement and $45 billion deficit

The review of the AITIGA must be hastened to help India consolidate its position in world trade in the face of US tariffs and geopolitical flux

How can states further energise the RE drive?

The Centre must suggest steps to make PPAs more acceptable to states that are reluctant to raise clean power off-take