It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection
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A credible nationwide study overturns the 13-14 percent narrative, shows India now on par with advanced economies, and sets the stage for deeper multimodal reforms
It helps build careful security, privacy, and performance habits
The 2020 intervention stopped contagion, but its ad hoc approach and breach of loss hierarchy underline the need for a predictable, rule-based system for failing financial firms
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As urban populations surge, the call is growing for cities built around people's lived realities, not outdated templates or top-down planning
With climate impacts mounting, the summit's final days must deliver a credible finance plan, realistic transition pathways and stronger action-focused alliances
India's strong GDP growth masks a deeper disconnect: muted revenues, weak private capex, and demand constraints that leave corporate performance trailing headline numbers
Perhaps the most significant innovation in the draft questionnaire is the recognition that migration is not just a journey but a process with consequences
India needs to ensure that this chaos does not bleed across the frontier, cause an increase in cross-border terrorism, or lead to a flow of refugees
There are references to the headwinds faced by the economy as it plans for the next five years
How to sustain open innovation in the face of rising financial and computational demands
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India's formal adoption of inflation targeting in 2016 marked a fundamental shift in the way monetary policy was conducted
Two recent developments heighten the constitutional and legislative rationale for bringing this protection into effect
To address similar difficulties, the earlier generation of leaders established a host of international forums to foster mature and peaceful dialogue and reason among countries
A sharper partnership framework, stronger NBFC funding and better income assessment can make low-income credit flow stable instead of stop-start
A long-overdue course correction begins as the government moves to roll back QCOs that hurt small firms, consumers, and exports - but momentum must continue to prevent regulatory overreach
As things stand, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is expected to lead the government again and, having been mostly at the helm since 2005, is well aware of where the state stands