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By G S Tripathi The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Science was announced recently. The prize theme describes two periods of economic progress: a stagnating period of the economy in the pre-industrial revolution period and sustained economic growth thereafter through scientific and technological innovations. At the heart of this narrative lies the compelling concept of…

It’s your password to social media power ‘Rage bait’ is the OED’s Word of the Year. If you were born after Y2K, you need no explanation, but for social media illiterates it’s spelt out as ‘manipulative tactics used to drive engagement online’. It won because its usage increased threefold in 2025, beating closest rivals, ‘aura…

Seems like even in the polished halls of the Lok Sabha, a slip of the tongue can stir up a mini cyclone. On Monday, while inaugurating the 150 year commemoration of Vande Mataram, the stirring composition penned by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Narendra Modi addressed the great Bengali poet as “Bankim da”. The reaction was swift….

Each year, Assam prepares itself for climate shocks, which can range from floods to breached embankments to sudden heat waves and erratic weather patterns. Floods remain the most visible face of climate change in the state; however, equally damaging shifts can be seen with respect to the prolonged heatwaves, extreme rainfall, and increasingly unpredictable seasons….

Trump’s peace deals appear to be suffering from a ‘Humpty Dumpty’ syndrome – they are coming apart and no one seems to have any clue how to put them back together. This, even as Trump tries to pile pressure on Zelenskyy to get him to give up Ukrainian territory to push through his Russia-Ukraine peace…

Businesses die, brands don’t. Every abandoned trademark is a key to customers’ hearts and wallets Musk paid $44bn for Twitter and made it ‘X’, thinking it’s a cool name. But the rest of us have… Source link

If you’ve ever heard about someone having had an unexpected heart attack, it probably got you thinking about whether you should “get your heart checked”. Or if your LDL-Cholesterol levels are high, you’ve probably heard well-wishers throw around tests you should do, like a calcium scan, CTA, and angiogram. They all sound similar, and all…

As India builds its manufacturing and exports, one country it must study for hard lessons in scale, speed, and systems is China – which in less than three decades has built enough factories, ports, and processes to become the world’s leading manufacturer and exporter. In 2024, it exported $3.6tn of goods and ran a record…

Consumption inertia has weighed heavily on consumer-facing companies for nearly two years, as the “revenge spending” euphoria that followed the pandemic fizzled out after the 2023 festive season. For years, govt undertook aggressive capex, but while infra spending built the rails for the future, it required resources – partially raised through taxes. This, combined with…

Based on signs of strong GDP growth and benign inflation, many economists and market experts anticipated a status quo on repo rates. Still, the RBI’s MPC unanimously decided to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.25 per cent. At the same time, RBI projected real GDP growth for FY26 at 7.3 per…