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Nearly 4x hike in MF investment

India, Dec. 13 -- Mutual funds may emerge, and are emerging, as the most preferred investment choice for Indians. Most money is, and will be, pumped into equity funds. These are the major trends in th... Read More


Chai-nation to coffee culture

India, Dec. 13 -- India is a confirmed chai nation. In the north, east, and west, it is tea that is the most-ordered beverage on the streets, and in offices, and most-offered one at homes. Only in the... Read More


Blase Capital NAME GAME

India, Dec. 13 -- Most governments, both central and states, generally indulge in name changes. The name of the existing welfare projects are changed, roads and streets are renamed, and new schemes ar... Read More


India approves its largest-ever digital population count

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- The Centre on Friday approved the conduct of the Census of India 2027, clearing the country's largest administrative and statistical exercise after a prolonged gap. The Census wi... Read More


Bengal SIR: 58 lakh names marked for deletion

Kolkata, Dec. 13 -- About 58 lakh names of voters have been marked for deletion after Thursday, the last date of completion of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal, sources in... Read More


Trump mulls new bloc to sideline EU and shake up NATO

USA, Dec. 13 -- A recent report has suggested that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering the creation of a new high-level international forum that would bring together five of the world's most in... Read More


Act to regulate private school fees notified

India, Dec. 13 -- Four months after the Delhi Assembly passed the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025, to regulate fees in private schools amid protests... Read More


SAARC: A regional dream needing renewal

India, Dec. 13 -- Forty years ago, South Asia envisioned a regional alliance that would serve the collective interests of a region home to one-fifth of humanity. Inspired by successful models like ASE... Read More


The one true purpose of life: Taking shelter of God

India, Dec. 13 -- Human life appears complex, yet its true purpose is profoundly simple: to take shelter of God and advance ourselves spiritually. The Bhagavad Gita (15.7) states that we are souls, et... Read More


Agniveer and the broken Gorkha legacy

India, Dec. 13 -- Pokhara has long been the cradle and nursery of Nepali Gorkha recruitment, a tradition abruptly halted in June 2022 when India dropped the Agniveer "bombshell" on Nepal and its Gorkh... Read More