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India is spending more than it ever has on welfare. Subsidised food for hundreds of millions, free cooking gas, direct benefit transfers, health insurance, housing schemes, employ…
Age verification and — Age Verification and Online Safety Technology: The Internet Is Moving From Open Access to Verified Identity. In-depth editorial
What happened with Meta AI in WhatsApp? Meta — the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram — is in the midst of the most significant expansion of its arti…
What happened with artificial intelligence energy demand? The extraordinary growth of artificial intelligence in 2024-26 has come with an extraordinary and increasingly visible c…
What happened? Rahul Dravid — one of India's greatest batsmen, a former national team captain, and the coach who led India to the 2024 T20 World Cup — has made a land…
Youth unemployment — Youth Unemployment as Political Satire: Memes Are Becoming the New Protest Language in India. In-depth editorial analysis on
What happened? In a candid interview with Royal Challengers Bengaluru ahead of IPL 2026, Virat Kohli put to rest months of speculation about his future. The 37-year-old confirmed…
Opposition parties in India are finding common ground in state elections, turning local political contests into national signals. Here's what the trend reveals about 2026 politics.
History Moves When Science Defeats Sentiment A visitor enters an old monument with a phone in one hand and a verdict in the other. Before reading a plaque, before asking who buil…
History Does Not Repeat Itself; We Repeat Our Mistakes There is a comforting laziness in the phrase that history repeats itself. It allows a society to look at recurring failures…
India Is Building Civilisation Faster Than It Is Preserving Culture India is building at a speed that would astonish many earlier generations. Airports rise where towns once wait…
Chip supply chain — Samsung Labour Dispute and the Chip Supply Chain: One Strike Can Shake the World's Tech Industry. In-depth editorial analysis on
