OECD’s Stephan Vincent-Lancrin emphasises at the Clear-Cut Education Summit that competency-based curricula and the skill to judge AI outputs are the next frontier NEW DELHI: Speaking at the inaugural session of the Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026, Dr. Stephan Vincent-Lancrin, keynote speaker in the opening plenary alongside Dr. Kiren Bedi, Ms. Kaveree Bamzai, Dr. Rishikesh Patankar…
Electronics, defence and pharma output have surged since the initiative’s 2014 launch, but manufacturing’s share of GDP, formal jobs and India’s standing in labour-intensive exports tell a more uneven story. The Make in India initiative completed twelve years on September 25, 2026, with government data showing sharp gains in electronics, defence and pharmaceutical output even…
Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath inaugurate five-day show at Greater Noida’s India Expo Centre & Mart GREATER NOIDA: The India Expo Centre & Mart opened its doors on Thursday to the fourth edition of the Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show (UPITS 2026), bringing together more than 2,400 exhibitors, over 600 international buyers from around 90 countries,…
Karnataka FDA has cancelled 16 drug licences and suspended eight others following an investigation into an alleged fake-medicine racket in which medicines, machinery, packaging material and forged labels worth about ₹5.05 crore were seized.” Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FDA) has cancelled the licences of 16 wholesale and retail drug establishments and suspended eight…
India’s UPI ecosystem is set to introduce a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate on select merchant transactions above ₹2,000 from October 15, 2026. The change raises questions about merchant costs, consumer prices, digital payments and financial inclusion.
Six years after India tore up a 34-year-old education framework, classrooms look genuinely different — but the policy’s own funding target, learning deadline, and language formula remain unresolved. On July 29, 2020, the Union cabinet approved the National Education Policy 2020, based on recommendations from the Kasturirangan Committee, replacing a policy that has, for the…
Balamala Malli’s journey from a waste picker in Guntur to a sanitation entrepreneur shows how mechanisation, skill development and financial support can transform hazardous informal work into a safer, dignified and self-reliant livelihood.
