For years, Rehana Khatun’s world was the size of her family’s home in Kumbhirgadi, a small village in Odisha’s Balasore district. A spinal cord condition called myelitis, discovered in her school years, made doctors too nervous to operate. So, she stayed at home, filled her days with chores and a tailoring job, and waited for…
India is standing at the threshold of one of the most profound demographic shifts in its history. By 2050, one in every five Indians will be over the age of 60. Advances in healthcare have helped us live longer, but they have also exposed us with various challenges. Among the many challenges confronting older adults…
Numbers rarely tell a warm story, but sometimes they confirm one. In Chhattisgarh’s Baloda Bazar district, a Divyang Centre was a place people with disabilities avoided. Because there was little worth visiting. Physiotherapy was patchy. Speech therapy barely existed. Then Ambuja Foundation, the rural development arm of Ambuja Cements and Adani Cement, folded the centre’s…
India’s latest ₹2.82-crore ABS disbursement shows that benefit-sharing from biological resources is gaining momentum. But gaps in traceability and community participation raise questions about whether these payments are reaching the people who helped preserve India’s genetic diversity.
Most people picture a business school as a place that produces bankers and consultants. IIM Calcutta has quietly built an incubator that has helped launch more than 2,000 start-ups. Many of them are run by people who have never set foot inside an IIM classroom. The rural women in Jharkhand, tribal entrepreneurs in Meghalaya and…
The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $ 230 million loan on August 21 to rebuild Chennai’s water and sewer network. Deputy Secretary Saurabh Singh signed on behalf of India’s Department of Economic Affairs, and ADB India Country Director Mio Oka signed for the bank, under the guidance of Joint…
In a narrow lane in the old city of Varanasi, 79-yearold Chandrika Prasad Grandpa had spent a lifetime in daily wage labour, only to find himself bedridden, nearly blind, and going hungry in old age — his ration card discontinued, his hip fractured after a stray cow knocked him down, and his son nowhere in…
India generates an estimated 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, putting pressure on waste-management and recycling systems. The 2026 Plastic Waste Management amendments introduce stricter recycled-content and EPR requirements, while raising questions about recycling capacity, traceability and informal waste workers.
Singapore supplied nearly a third of every foreign investment dollar that entered India last financial year — more than any other single country. That fact explains why, on 20 August, a five-member ministerial delegation led by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal joined a 70-strong Indian business contingent in Singapore for the fourth India-Singapore Ministerial…
Regulation, unlike the glossy intent of a corporate press release, is measured by deadlines and thresholds, not by intention. Over the last 3 years, SEBI’s BSRS framework has been the singular channel for driving accountability for environmental and social narratives in India’s reporting, whether tucked into CSR or otherwise. As 2026 dawns as the major…
