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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.

China in Kabul

In the shadow of the Afghan conflict’s ever-shifting sands, China has made a calculated move that reverberates not just within…

Empowered buyers

In a significant move towards prioritising road safety in India, the Bharat New Car Assessment Programme (Bharat NCAP), that takes…

Gaps in education

As the new academic year has begun, higher education institutions ac ross the country experience a common phenomenon lowering of…

A deft balancing act

Historically, India has maintained an equidistant relationship with geopolitical power blocs. India located itself at a safe centre in the…