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India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) programme has emerged as a major driver of manufacturing expansion, investment inflows and export growth, with tangible gains recorded across priority sectors. According to official data reviewed up to end 2025, the PLI schemes have led to actual investments of nearly Rs 2 lakh crore across 14 sectors. These investments…

People all over the world are right in praising India’s digital payments story. India is today a leader in digital payments because the entire ecosystem was built on three things: trust, modernisation, and compliance.  The trust was achieved through public digital networks like UPI; modernisation was brought about through the use of real-time, API-driven architectures;…

Creating valuable and impactful content takes time – hours of research, drafting, and polishing to produce that one well-crafted article or blog post. Yet the way we write for a blog is entirely different from how we communicate on Instagram, WhatsApp, or in an email campaign. Each platform has its own rhythm, tone, and reader…

While much of the global economy has slowed under the weight of high interest rates, stalling commercial engines, and rising geopolitical uncertainty, India’s economy looks to be in rude health. According to a report by the BBC, growth was at a whopping 7.3 per cent in 2025, exceeding that of Europe, the US, and China….

In this month of March that belongs to women the world over it is good to look at the versatile art practice of Maya Burman whose show concluded  in Mumbai at Art Musings last month. In her work she is known to embrace diverse media and projects, which also has painting and drawing, and mural commissions,…

Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously said, “War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.” It is in just this vein that we are witnessing a hegemon, US, incoherently wage war. The policy that the Iran war is supposed to support and execute, its rationale, changes with each interview and speech Trump…

Nearly everyone expected this to be a short war. Not just those who started it, but also commodity markets. Oil prices jumped around 10% when the conflict started, much less than the reaction when Russia attacked Ukraine. This is understandable: Iran exports only 1.5-1.8 of the 3.2mn barrels per day (mbpd) it produces, of which…

By BK Sister Shivani Right now, as you read this, you are playing Holi. Not with gulaal or water, but with something far more powerful. Our emotional vibrations are like colours. Every thought we create carries a shade. Every word we speak carries a colour. Every feeling quietly paints someone’s inner world. Just as powdered…

US and Israel jointly attack Iran, but one of them is confused  Donald Trump in a phone conversation with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu. Trump: Hi Nate, how’re they hangin’ now that we’ve slammed Iraq and whacked that Saddam fella?  Bibi: Hello Donnie (off-phone aside): If he’s going to call me Nate, I’ll damn well call him…

India can’t protect itself better from a future oil shock unless commercial vehicle fleet is electrified   Yet another Gulf war should electrify the speed and scale at which India cuts back on its dependence on imported oil and gas, supply of which, in this new world order of uncertainty and turbulence, is subject to far…