New Delhi [India], February 25: The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has presented the first full-fledged budget of the Modi 3.0 government. The 2025-26 budget has been presented amidst two big concerns: the growing uncertainty in the global economy and hence in the export sector, and a slowdown in the economic growth rate in the last...Read More

The recently released ASER 2024 report on education in rural India is a stark reminder of the country’s growing educational crisis, one that threatens not just the academic future of millions of children but also India’s long-term economic and technological aspirations. The findings highlight a persistent and deeply concerning stagnation in basic arithmetic skills over...Read More