80 Lakh HPV Vaccinations: Why India’s Cervical Cancer Prevention Story Starts Before Adulthood It begins much earlier — with an adolescent girl receiving a vaccine. India’s most important cancer-prevention story this year may not begin in a cancer hospital More than 80 lakh doses of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine have now been administered under […]

Ayurveda in Modern India: Can Ancient Knowledge Meet Modern Evidence? In India, Ayurveda has never really disappeared. It has lived in kitchens, homes, temples, clinics and family traditions — in the morning glass of something herbal that grandmother insisted was essential, and in the occasional debate over whether the remedy actually worked. But something more […]

India Is Ageing Fast: Why Elderly Healthcare Can No Longer Be an Afterthought India’s demographic story is changing. The country is still young, but its elderly population is growing so rapidly that healthcare, family structures, housing, pensions and even the way cities are designed will have to adapt. For decades, India’s healthcare conversation was dominated […]

India’s Health Reset: For much of India’s modern healthcare story, the starting point has been familiar: Something hurts. Find a doctor. The next steps usually involve a consultation, diagnostic test, medicine and, if necessary, a hospital. That model will always remain necessary. Acute illness cannot be prevented simply by downloading another health app. But India is […]

The People Saving Species Most of Us Rarely Notice India’s wildlife conservation story is often told through tigers, elephants and rhinos. But some of the country’s most remarkable conservation battles involve animals that many Indians would struggle to recognise — and people whose names rarely make national headlines. Ask someone to name an Indian conservation […]

India’s Young Biotech Innovators: From Lab Experiments to Real-World Solutions One in which young scientists, researchers, students and entrepreneurs are increasingly being encouraged to take ideas beyond the laboratory and test whether they can work in the real world. For years, biotechnology in India was associated primarily with research laboratories, pharmaceutical manufacturing and vaccines. That […]

From Jugaad to Strategic Innovation: How India Is Building Its Next Technology Economy India’s technology story is entering a different phase. The ambition is no longer simply to find clever solutions with limited resources. It is increasingly about building the chips, computing infrastructure, scientific capabilities and intellectual property that allow India to shape the technologies […]

Your Household Budget Knows It There is a particular moment when an inflation number stops being an economic statistic and becomes a household conversation. It usually sounds something like this: India’s official retail inflation rate moved up to 4.82% in August 2026, from 4.45% in July, according to the latest Consumer Price Index release from […]

India has just produced the kind of economic number governments, businesses and economists like to put in bold type. Real GDP grew 7.8% year-on-year in April–June 2026, the first quarter of FY2026–27. Manufacturing grew 9.2%, real fixed investment rose 11.9% and private consumption increased 7.1%. Services also remained a major engine of expansion. And yet […]

IISc: Where India’s Scientific Ambition Becomes Research, Technology and Innovation In Bengaluru, there is a university campus where the trees are old, the laboratories are serious and the homework can occasionally involve problems that do not have answers at the back of the textbook. That institution is the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Founded in […]

Amity University: From a Noida Campus to a Research, Skills and Global Education Network There was a time when choosing a university largely meant asking three questions: What course? What campus? What job after graduation? Today, the question is considerably bigger: What can a university actually help a student become? That question is particularly relevant […]

AI Innovation Meets a Governance Test India’s universities are being asked to do two very different things at the same time. They must prepare students for a world being transformed by artificial intelligence, advanced technology and rapidly changing employment patterns. At the same time, institutions — particularly private universities — are facing sharper questions about […]