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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.

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.

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.

Cup class

We have been persuaded to accept India’s World Cup batting order as something like this: captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Singh Gill in the opening slots

Tax woes

In the world of taxation, ambiguity often gives rise to disputes that can have far-reaching consequences.

National Education

The partition of Bengal became a reality on 16 October 1905. Now a new province called East Bengal was created consisting of Chittagong, Dacca and Rajshahi divisions, Tripura, Maldah and Assam.

A setback, but not a disaster in Maldives

The election of pro-China Progressive Alliance candidate, Mohamed Muizzu, as President in Maldives led to a buzz that China is in and India is out of the island nation.