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The monopsony menace and widening wage gap: An ILO study
The study reveals how dominant firms stifle competition for workers, driving down wages and deepening inequality by stripping employees of their power to bargain
Why’s this census different from all earlier ones?
It breaks away from the past. Ending a 15-year lag, India’s first digital census targets the 'data vacuum' with mobile tech, a historic caste count, and recognition of evolving social realities
Grid goes green as solar surges amid rising power demand
New NSO data reveals a staggering surge in solar potential and a 600% boost in credit, fuelling India’s green transition
How early neglect rewires children for abusive adult lives
Intimate partner violence isn't a problem that exists in vacuum, it’s a developmental health crisis. Healing a child’s sense of well-being is the most powerful weapon against a lifetime of violence
Eastward Tilt: The axis of global scholarly excellence is shifting
2026 QS Rankings reveal a shifting academic landscape where Western dominance faces a 'knowledge arms race' from a rapidly ascending Global South, led primarily by Singapore & China
GDP growth set to moderate to 6.5% in FY27: ICRA
This cautious recalibration from the 7.5% estimated for the current fiscal year comes as a escalating conflict in West Asia threatens to disrupt the domestic momentum that defined early 2026
Industrial growth up 5.2% in Feb on manufacturing push
Performance across sub-sectors remains a landscape of contrasts, balancing double-digit gains in heavy industry against continued contractions in consumer non-durables
Progress on maternal mortality is losing momentum. Why?
India remains a global hotspot, accounting for 24,700 deaths in 2023. While national numbers have plummeted since 1990, new data reveals chilling stagnation in global progress
West Asia crisis puts India’s on macro-economic tightrope
The war has incinerated the global ‘peace dividend’, exposing India’s economy to surging crude prices, currency volatility, and a widening deficit, warns SBI Funds Management report
India's growth at risk? War, rising oil threaten GDP outlook
Growth in FY27 faces rising ‘downside risks’ as Iran-Israel conflict pushes crude prices higher, while current account deficit and weakening capital flows add to economic worries
West Asia recast: Power, conflict & a region 'remade' by war
The old regional order is dead, shattered by a war that has exposed the limits of deterrence and collapsed proxy-era assumptions, triggering an urgent scramble for a new regional security architecture