Economy

Ethanol-Blended Petrol: Growing Concerns and the Bold Shift to E20

Ethanol-Blended Petrol: Unpacking the Real Impact of India’s E20 Push Context: Amid rising social media concerns over E20 fuel’s impact...

Bio-Fortified Potatoes

Bio-Fortified Potatoes

Bio-fortified potatoes to hit the Indian market soon Context: India is set to launch iron-rich bio-fortified potatoes, developed by the...

World Bank Income Classification

World Bank Income Classification

World Bank Income Classification: Unveiling Economic Progress Across Nations Context: To enable consistent comparison across nations, the World Bank annually...

Intellectual Property (IP) and India-UK FTA

Intellectual Property (IP) and India-UK FTA

Context: The proposed India–United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has raised critical concerns about India’s intellectual property (IP)...

India’s Digital Sovereignty at Risk: The UK FTA

India’s Digital Sovereignty at Risk: The UK FTA

This essay explores how the India-UK Free Trade Agreement risks India’s digital sovereignty by compromising control over data, code, and...

Vegetable Oil Security in India: Bold Moves to Cut Import Dependence

Vegetable Oil Security: India’s Strategic Push for Self-Reliance Context: In an unusual shift, Indian importers have purchased a record 150,000...

India’s Insurance Sector

Context: The 2025-26 Union Budget raised the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap in insurance to 100%, building on the 2021-22...

Rise of Contractual Labour in India

Context: In recent decades, India’s formal manufacturing sector has seen a sharp rise in contractual employment, with contract workers now...

Regulating Stablecoins

Context: US President Donald Trump recently signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (Genius Act) into...

India’s Slum Clusters in Flood-Prone Areas Reveal a Looming Urban Crisis

India Slum Clusters in Flood Zones: Study Warns of Mounting Risk Context: Flooding affects over 2.3 billion people globally each...

Financial Inclusion Index 2025

Context: The RBI released the Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) for March 2025, assigning a score of 67, up from 64.2...

Textile Sector Turning out to be Country’s Strength

Textile Sector Turning out to be Country’s Strength

Context: Ahead of National Handloom Day, PM Modi linked the Swadeshi Movement to India’s rising textile sector, highlighting its role...

Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PM-VBRY)

Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PM-VBRY)

‘PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PM-VBRY)’ to come into effect from 1st August 2025 Context: The Employment Linked Incentive (ELI)...

India’s Critical Mineral Strategy: A Bold Leap for Clean Energy Leadership

India’s Critical Mineral Strategy: A Bold Leap for Clean Energy Leadership

India’s Critical Mineral Strategy: A Visionary Push for Global Clean Tech Dominance Context: Critical minerals have become central to 21st-century...

Biostimulants in India

Biostimulants in India

Biostimulants that aid plant growth, now under the Centre’s scrutiny Context: Recently, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed state...

GST Reform Must Address the Critical Gap in Tobacco Taxation

GST reform and unfinished business in tobacco control  Context: With the GST compensation cess set to expire in March 2026,...

G.I. Tag Battles Cultural Misappropriation: A Bold Step for Traditional Artisans

Can a G.I. tag prevents cultural misappropriation? Context: Recently , at its Spring/Summer 2026 menswear show in Milan, Italian luxury...

Multidimensional Indices in Indian Healthcare

Reforming Social Protection with Multidimensional Indices Context: India’s poverty measurement has evolved from pre-independence subsistence-based estimates to modern multidimensional frameworks....

India’s Poverty Debate

The truth about poverty in India Context: In April 2025, the Government of India issued a press release titled “India’s...

South Asia Regional Centre of International Potato Centre (CIP) in India

Centre approves South Asia unit of International Potato Centre at Agra Context: The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of...

India’s Crude Oil and Natural Gas Consumption: A Growing Energy Security Risk

India’s Crude Oil and Natural Gas Consumption Crisis: Why Import Dependency Hurts Context: India’s energy security challenge has become more...

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