When the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman rose to present her ninth budget, expectations were high that taking advantage of the country’s stable macroeconomic fundamentals she would go for big-ticket reforms. The core inflation has come down; GDP is estimated to grow by 7.4% in 2025-26 –...
Manufacturing has been a major focus of the annual Budget presented on February 1 by Nirmala Sitharaman. India has long aimed to raise manufacturing’s share in GDP to around 25%, from about 16–17% a few years ago. However, the current share remains significantly lower.In an increasingly uncertai...
The AI Impact Summit, 2026 held in Delhi was a huge opportunity for India to project country’s technical skills globally. It was attended by the best of minds from Google, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and the India counterparts like Reliance/Jio. The French President Macron, who was on an India tou...
1. IntroductionIn the light of Spiritual Intelligence, the 16th World Confluence of Humanity, Power and Spirituality brought together participants from diverse spiritual, religious, and cultural backgrounds. It offered a renewed understanding of spirituality and its practice during the two-day gathe...
At the dawn of the Bengal Renaissance, when reformers such as Raja Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore, and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar were reshaping society, a remarkable woman emerged from within the rigid confines of tradition. Breaking social barriers with wisdom, courage, and administrative br...
IntroductionIndia’s sacred texts—the Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita and others—have long nurtured spiritual wisdom. From Adi Shankaracharya and Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore, India’s sages have reminded humanity that knowledge without wi...
I am a follower of the Sanatana Dharma –a Sanatanist. Not only that, but I am also proud to be a follower of the Sanatana Dharma. This is not simply, because I was born into a family that follows the Sanatana Dharma, or because I should inherently be proud of being a Sanatanist as the child of the...
The Union Budget 2026-27 places significant emphasis on high-value agricultural products and the adoption of advanced technology. The principal objective of these measures is to accelerate growth in the agriculture sector. Agriculture and allied activities continue to be the primary source of liveli...
A rise in the unemployment rate from 4.8% to 5% may appear to be statistical noise. At first glance, it is a decimal-point movement that might seem more significant to economists than to the man in the street. But numbers rarely speak in isolation.More important than this small uptick is the c...
On 17 February 2026, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu presented the Tamil Nadu Interim Budget for 2026–27. With the State Assembly elections scheduled later this year, the government opted for an interim budget for the Financial Year (FY) 2026–27.The interim budget seeks to maintain fiscal di...
