In a cleanroom in Sanand, Gujarat, technicians in bunny suits now handle silicon wafers that India could not package on its own eighteen months ago. The plant belongs to Kaynes Semicon, which shipped the country’s first commercially produced multi-chip modules in late 2025 — a milestone shared with neighbouring Micron and CG Semi, and marked…
Jerry Pinto’s award-winning Em and the Big Hoom explores bipolar disorder, family caregiving and the challenges of ageing through the deeply personal story of a Mumbai family.
India’s 2026 BRICS Chairship brought the 7th ICT Working Group Meeting to Pune, focusing on connectivity, AI, digital public infrastructure, cybersecurity and digital innovation. The meeting highlighted the growing importance of multilateral cooperation in shaping the future of emerging technologies.
Warnings about sugar have been about the waistline and teeth for decades. But a new wave of studies is emerging that points towards a place less obvious today: the developing brain. Scientists are more and more sure that the food consumed by a mother in her womb or a child while growing up during this…
India is intensifying its fight against narcotics trafficking, but limited treatment and rehabilitation capacity raises questions about whether enforcement alone can address the country’s drug crisis.
A child who fails to reach his genetic potential will have a disadvantage his entire life, be it in terms of intelligence, income generation capacity, or even illness. They become vulnerable decades later; that is the insidious, cumulative cost embedded in India’s latest nutrition data. While the National Family Health Survey-6 does paint a picture…
The District Administration has fixed exposure of 30 mins per day of digital board for students of primary classes and 60 minutes for upper primary classes, following a report of exposure of students up to five hours in class. NOIDA: The Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration has ordered every school in Noida and Greater Noida…
Is India Ready for the Silver Economy? India’s growth journey has been driven by the youth. Today, the same population curve that issupposed to bring a demographic dividend is curving towards the less tumultuous sibling of a demographic dividend — a Demographic Tax. Now the problem for policy makers, employers and investors is not if…
For much of the development sector’s history, progress has been understood through the expansion of access. The construction of schools and health facilities, expansion of electricity and water supply, increased enrolment, greater financial inclusion and wider coverage of social protection programmes have all been important markers of development. These achievements matter because exclusion from basic…
In a corner of Chhattisgarh, the Vedanta Skill School, run under BALCO’s CSR program, has trained more than 15,000 rural youth. 83% of the 1,200 trainees have been placed in jobs over the past year alone. A few hundred kilometres away, HDFC Bank’s Parivartan initiative marked World Youth Skills Day 2026. It reported that its…
