Beyond the Gavel: Why India’s Mining Revenue Still Falls Short of its Potential

Bhubaneswar, 2MAY2026 , India has apparently lost about three lakh crore in mining revenue in the last 10 years due to the invisible leakages in the ongoing e-auction of mines across the country. Earlier to that between 2005 and 2015, estimates suggest a notional loss of ₹5 Lakh Crore to ₹10 Lakh Crore on current prices […]

After Pahalgam : Choosing Dialogue Over the Comfort of Hostility

One year after the devastating terror attack in Pahalgam, the India–Pakistan relationship stands once again at a familiar, dangerous crossroads—caught between the compulsions of domestic politics and the imperatives of regional peace. The tragedy, which claimed innocent lives and shattered a fragile sense of normalcy in Kashmir, reinforced a pattern that has come to define […]

PHONES BEEP AS CENTRE TESTS DISASTER INFO ALERT SYSTEM

NEW DELHI ,2 May 2026 : If your phone buzzed on Saturday with an urgent-sounding government alert, you were not alone and there was no need to panic. Millions of mobile users across the country received a test message as the Centre formally launched its indigenous Cell Broadcast emergency alert system. The alert, marked “Extremely […]

COFFEE MAY PROTECT AGAINST AGING

NEW DELHI,2May 2026 : New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease. For decades, research has linked coffee consumption to longer life and lower risk of chronic disease—but exactly how those benefits occur has remained unclear. Now, new research from the Texas A&M University’s […]