If you believe that history is a guide, you will always find periods of market volatility, marked by dramatic swings both down and up. As much as you look back in history to draw out examples, it is a fact that uncertainty in markets makes investors jittery. Stock markets are volatile because nobody knows how…
The timing was telling. For Nitish Kumar, chief minister of Bihar, it was a final flourish of governance before the Model Code of Conduct came into effect. At 10 am on October 6, barely six hours before the Election Commission of India announced the polling schedule for Bihar, Nitish transferred Rs 10,000 each into the…
India is once again confronting a grim and recurring public health scandal—the contamination of children’s cough syrup. At the centre of the latest episode is Coldrif, manufactured by Sresan Pharma in Tamil Nadu, which several states have banned after official tests confirmed diethylene glycol (DEG) adulteration in a batch linked to clusters of acute kidney…
Adversity has never been a deterrent for Joy Sebastian, co-founder and CEO of Techgentsia Software Technologies. Born into a non-literate fisherfolk family in the coastal village of Pathirapally in Alappuzha district, his parents struggled to educate him. But Joy went on to complete his graduation and then a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) in 1999….
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, spoke to Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa about the Modi government’s vision for and execution of the massive Rs 76,000 crore India Semiconductor Mission (ISM). Excerpts: (Photograph by Bandeep Singh) ISSUE DATE: Oct 13, 2025 | UPDATED: Oct 3, 2025 20:48 IST Q. In 1984, India…
Bullock carts and bytes jostle together in the Sanand industrial belt on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. But don’t be misled by the rustic settings. Ever since Tata shifted its massive Nano factory almost overnight from Singur in West Bengal in 2008, the township has flourished as a manufacturing hub. Now with three of the world’s…
On September 10, the Election Commission of India (ECI) convened chief electoral officers from across the country to discuss the preparation of a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a bureaucratic exercise it insists is about “cleaning up” voter lists, but which critics say cuts to the core question: who counts as a…
The weekend brought thunder from across the Atlantic, shaking India’s IT industry to its core. The US—its biggest market, accounting for more than half of $224 billion (Rs 19.9 lakh crore) in tech exports—moved to shut the door on foreign software engineers with a prohibitive H-1B visa fee hike. Announced on September 19 by US…
Rajinder Negi, an apple grower in Kotkhai, Himachal Pradesh, can only shake his head in disbelief. His crop is rotting in warehouses or stranded on broken roads. Life itself seems broken in this Himalayan state: it has seen 45 cloudbursts, 91 flash floods and 105 major landslides so far this season, leaving over 660 road…
