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India’s Public Distribution System offers a useful test of whether welfare is reaching the people it is meant to serve. Fresh government data shows how many people are covered, where coverage is deepest, how ineligible n...

It is six in the morning, and the kitchen is already filled with the aroma of roasted coffee. Hot milk goes into a steel tumbler, followed by a dark, concentrated decoction. Then comes the familiar rhythm: the coffee is ...

Driven by historical legacy, India’s female employment is expanding across rural and urban sectors, though occupational clustering and significant gender gaps remain to be bridged.

Sairang was a blank spot on India's railway map until last September. For generations, getting in or out of Aizawl meant a flight ticket most families couldn't stretch to afford. Or worse, it meant a grueling road journe...

Every factory floor, data centre, and electric vehicle in modern India relies on a single vital force: sustainable energy. Moving away from the era of expensive, finite fossil fuels, India is fundamentally redefining how...

If you ever see “Made in India” on a bag of rice or a box of vegetables in a foreign store, do not be surprised. India is now the world’s seventh-largest agricultural exporter. In some crops, it ranks even higher. In fac...

A decade ago, India was barely visible in the US phone import market. Today, it supplies more than half of the smartphones America imports. The shift is one of the clearest signs yet of India’s growing manufacturing stre...