Second Place. Ten Golds. Best Performance Ever Away from Home. It did not happen on home soil. That matters. When India’s U-20 athletes delivered a 19-medal haul including 10 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze at the 22nd Asian U20 Athletics Championships in Hong Kong. They finished second overall only behind China, without the advantage of…
One Agreement, Multiple Frontiers It is unusual for a trade deal to carry the weight of energy security, diaspora diplomacy, and strategic geography all at once. The India–Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which entered into force on June 1, 2026, does all three. It was signed in Muscat on December 18, 2025, in the…
New Delhi: Mother Dairy unveiled India’s first naturally degradable milk pouch on June 2, 2026, at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Delhi. The new packaging — being rolled out with the company’s cow milk variant across Delhi-NCR from June 5, World Environment Day — breaks down in soil within a few years without leaving behind…
The Numbers Behind the Movement Walk down any Indian city street today and you will encounter a chai vendor, a fruit cart or a cobbler. The harshest part is they are invisible in our policies, but very essential in life. For decades, this workforce worked outside formal finance, trapped in debt cycles with local moneylenders…
India’s digital health programme has hit a milestone that few countries can match. The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission has crossed 90 crore Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts. That is more than two-thirds of India’s population of approximately 1.4 billion holding a unique digital health identity. Few, if any, other countries have built a health ID system…
The pledge directs $40 million to maternal mental health in Africa and $10 million to close the menopause care gap across the United States. Philanthropist Melinda French Gates announced Thursday a $215 million commitment to women’s health through her organisation Pivotal, covering contraceptive access, maternal care, and a notable new push into menopause treatment in…
The India Meteorological Department’s revised forecast for 2026 places the southwest monsoon at its weakest in over a decade and the consequences will ripple from paddy fields to grocery shelves. The onset of the monsoons is as significant an annual event as the results of any election and as much talked about as any budget…
More than half a century since India started the first blindness prevention programme in the world, the nation still carries one of the greatest burdens of avoidable blindness anywhere in the world. While clinicians fight their usual foe of blindness caused by cataract in rural clinics, a new enemy has appeared on the horizon, in…
India’s Budget speech is a carefully choreographed event. Numbers go up, schemes get named, and ministers applaud. But a quieter story plays out months later, in documents called Revised Estimates. This is where the real spending decisions happen. In 2025-26, two of India’s most critical welfare schemes for women and children were slashed significantly at…
India has one of the largest mandated corporate social responsibility frameworks in the world. Since 2014, companies above a certain size have been legally required to spend at least 2% of their average net profits on social causes from education and healthcare to environmental sustainability and skill development. In FY 2022-23 alone, eligible companies collectively…
