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The story so far: “We have not been able to fulfill what the people of Gujarat expected from us for the past 15-30 years,” said Rahul Gandhi on March 8, 2025, while addressing party workers in Ahmedabad. He urged the party to weed out workers and leaders who are “cut off from people and in cahoots with BJP,” … Read more

Are healthcare systems prepared to handle the rising number of patients with end-stage kidney disease requiring dialysis? Over the years, dialysis services have undoubtedly expanded — at least in some parts of the country — but there are critical gaps and shortcomings that need to be addressed to meet the growing demand for dialysis services … Read more

Today, every facet of business has become technology-driven. A lot of tasks that require physical visits to banks can be done online. | Photo: iStock/ Getty Images The insurance and retail sectors are undergoing a significant transformation due to the increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI technologies are deployed across various functions such as … Read more

Kadukkachi, a native mango variety | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Mallissery mango, found exclusively in the Nedumbassery region of Ernakulam district is the one that goes into the famous tangy Angamaly mango curry. The aromatic Kotturkonam varikka is Thiruvananthapuram’s pride, the Kuttiatoor mango from Kannur is the first native variety to get a GI … Read more

Like every other day, Sangarthi Jayalakshmi, in her mid-30s, prepared a lunchbox for her husband, Sangarthi Govindu, 41, on April 13. She saw him off to work from the doorstep of their modest house in Kailasapatnam village, Kotavuratla mandal, Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh. Around 1 p.m. that day, Jayalakshmi received a phone call asking her … Read more

A decade or so ago, Mathew George Sankaramangalam decided to restore his family’s nearly 100-year-old ancestral home or tharavadu, in Thiruvalla, located in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district. “I inherited this place in the late 1990s after my grandfather passed away, but it ended up lying unused for nearly 25 years,” says the Bengaluru-based businessman. During this … Read more

One winter, many years ago, I was gifted a ticket to witness the Republic Day parade: the kind of gift you cannot refuse without offending the giver, and the kind of giver you cannot afford to offend. I grudgingly took myself to the venue, bereft of all distractions other than a novel clutched under my … Read more

As dawn breaks over Hyderabad, before the first tea stalls steam to life, hundreds of sanitation workers are already at work, their brooms combing the city to prepare it for the day’s bustle. For 58-year-old Nethetla Pochamma, a single mother and an outsourced worker with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, it wasn’t just a job—it … Read more

An EV charging station being operated by the KSEB near the Kozhikode beach. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh The story so far: The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have initiated a pilot project to explore the implementation of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology across the State. This collaboration … Read more

From the coastal city of Visakhapatnam to the farthest corners of the globe, Bharadwaj Dayala is on an extraordinary journey: one that spans 195 countries, seven continents and 12 years, capturing the portraits of women. But it is not the miles he is counting. It is the faces, the stories, the lives. His dream project, … Read more