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From Lab to Life: Why Indian Innovation Often Stalls

India is not short of ideas. Every year, universities produce thousands of engineers and researchers, laboratories generate studies, and start-ups promise new solutions in healthcare, technology and sustainability.

How technology became India’s social equaliser

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India Mission on 1 July 2015, many saw it as an ambitious technology programme aimed at expanding internet access and digitising government services.

Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt ring in new year 2026 with daughter Raha; fans melt over cute family moment

The New Family

For decades, India’s social contract rested on an assumption that required little intervention from the state: families would care for their elderly.

Operation Sindoor graphic displayed with sindoor powder motif symbolising India’s anti-terror military operation

Delayed Recognition

Every democracy owes two debts to its soldiers. The first is to equip them well enough to fight.

Agni Kawach

India is building its energy future on several pillars at once: bio-ethanol, coal gasification, renewables, and nuclear power.