A Choice That Did Not Make Headlines In the early 2010s, when Dia Mirza was at a point where most actors would be intensifying their film commitments, she made a different calculation. The roles did not diminish in quality. What changed was where her time and public capital went. She began to speak about plastic…
India is past an important tipping point. Mixing ratios have risen from 1.14% during 2014-15 to 20% in the current Ethanol Supply Year of 2025-26. This figure is quite important considering that India imports 87% of its crude oil, which makes it susceptible to pricing issues and geopolitical instabilities. But there is a much more…
India’s Union Budget 2026-27 allocates ₹1,39,289.48 crore to the Ministry of Education, an 8.27% increase over the previous year. Samagra Shiksha receives ₹42,100 crore, while the Department of Higher Education includes ₹100 crore for a Centre of Excellence in artificial intelligence for education. On the skilling side, PM-SETU is a ₹60,000 crore scheme to upgrade…
Uttar Pradesh has launched an ₹8,200 crore integrated solar manufacturing facility by SAEL Industries in the YEIDA region of Gautam Budh Nagar. The project will produce solar cells and modules, create around 20,000 jobs, and strengthen India’s renewable energy manufacturing ecosystem.
The global fight against modern slavery is entering a new leadership chapter with the appointment of Havovi Wadia as the next Chief Executive Officer of the Freedom Fund. Effective 1 December 2026, Wadia will succeed outgoing CEO Nick Grono and lead one of the world’s foremost organisations dedicated to ending modern slavery and supporting survivors…
On January 1, 2026, delivery workers across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru walked off the job. The strike was nationwide. It was also historic. For the first time, India’s gig workforce collectively demanded dignity, regulation, and accountability from the platforms that run their lives. On 21 November 2025, the Government of India brought the four Labour…
RAISED VOICES IN A ROOM BUILT FOR DECORUM Closed-door meetings between a sitting president and his own party’s senators are, by design and tradition, supposed to stay closed-door. The disagreements aired privately, unity projected publicly. That arrangement broke down on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, when President Trump’s meeting with Republican senators turned visibly, audibly testy,…
A CONCESSION DELAYED IS STILL A CONCESSION Democratic transitions are measured not just by who wins, but by how gracefully the loser accepts it. Colombia’s 2026 presidential election produced a genuinely tense final chapter before resolving peacefully. After initially challenging the results, Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate conceded a razor-thin defeat to conservative outsider Abelardo de…
THE TENTH TIME WAS THE CHARM Some legislative votes pass on the first attempt. This one took ten. On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, the United States Senate voted 50-48 to adopt a war powers resolution directing President Trump to remove US armed forces from hostilities with Iran. The first time in ten separate attempts since…
TWO TREMORS, ONE CAPITAL, NO WARNING Earthquakes rarely announce themselves twice. Venezuela was struck by back-to-back powerful earthquakes minutes apart on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, with buildings collapsing in the capital, Caracas, in a country whose institutional capacity to respond to large-scale disaster has been quietly eroding for years under economic crisis and political turmoil…
