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Drains to dividends: How Ghaziabad showed the way to cash in on green bonds, rewrite civic finance

A push to conserve groundwater has evolved into test case for climate finance, fiscal discipline & market credibility in urban local bodies—now more are betting on 'green' money to clean up their act.

Indian judiciary must stop panicking over AI

To assume courts weigh every word committed to paper is to ignore reality. The Indian judiciary has long had a "Control+C" problem.

Lucknow’s most fearless voice is 14. Dhruv Rathee, Kunal Kamra, police are hearing him

At 14, Ashwamit Gautam has already experienced fame and an FIR. ‘If I were older, my situation could have been like Sonam Wangchuk or Umar Khalid.’

From ‘azadi’ to biometrics—a new wave of protest takes shape at JNU

Nearly ten years after the 2016 protests led by Kanhaiya Kumar pushed JNU into the national spotlight, students say the campus is confronting a very different movement now.

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

India’s Silicon Beach: As Bengaluru sputters, a new IT haven is taking shape on Karnataka’s coast

The coastal belt of Mangaluru, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada is now dubbed the ‘Silicon Beach’ of India, with hundreds of tech companies setting up shop.

Kolkata biryani wars get 2 new challengers in Dada Boudi, Hanglaatherium

While much of India debates whether Lucknowi, Hyderabadi or Kolkata biryani is superior, Bengal’s argument has turned inward: which local biryani deserves loyalty now as the new contenders challenge old guards Arsalan and Aminia.

India is spending billions to modernise its courts. But a glaring fault line stands in way of justice

The eCourts Mission Mode Project is now in Phase III. This stage of the project has an outlay of Rs 7,210 crore, more than four times the Rs 1,670 crore utilised in Phase II.

5 years of Ukraine war—why Delhi must de-hyphenate Moscow from the West

In the past year, Russia gained less than 1% more territory in Ukraine, while Trump slashed US military aid by 99%. What this means for Delhi.

Pahadis are moving from restaurant kitchens to bartending. ‘Community has tasted success’

‘It was usually someone in the army who could build a house, buy a car, support the family. Today, bartenders carry that status,' said Kuldeep Singh, founder of the Bar Academy of Doon.

On Camera

Where does the law stand on Himanta Biswa Sarma’s video of ‘shooting’ Muslims 

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's Hindu-Muslim polarisation is clearly done to maximise the odds of winning. But an important legal question is: does it expose him to legal liability?

FY23 chosen as new base for India’s GDP as it was 1st ‘normal economic year’ in a while—MoSPI secy

FY 2022-23 was the first normal economic year in recent years, said Saurabh Garg, Secretary of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, in an interview with ThePrint.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.