Mint Primer | IIT hiring: Will it be a rocky one for the batch of ’25?

Placements at India’s top engineering colleges, including at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are off…

Mint Primer: Will XR glasses, Neuralinks kill smartphones?

India accounts for 10% of the 7 billion people using smartphones globally. These, however, may be…

Mint Primer: Beam me up, Scotty… into the boardroom

Google’s long-term experiment to create a science fiction-like 3D, holographic ultra-realistic display is now a real…

Expat exits: Why foreign-born CEOs don’t last the distance in Indian IT firms

Thierry Delaporte’s exit as Wipro’s top boss comes a year after Brian Humphries, another expat CEO,…

Mint Primer: Why you shouldn’t stress out over new mid- and small-cap tests

The results have come in from Sebi-mandated stress tests for mid and small cap funds. Days…

Mint Primer: Are you middle class? A housing scheme may hold clues

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a housing scheme for the middle class as part of…

Are real-life ‘Dunki’ stories on the rise?

A charter plane with 276 Indian passengers, grounded in France for four days due to suspected…

Sensex surging: Will this be the new normal?

After the benchmark Nifty touched the 21,000-mark recently, the Sensex hit 70,000 on 14 December, a…

Mint Primer: Why India needs a new hydropower policy

A hydropower policy is in the works. This comes at a time when India has set…

Stormy Monday in Chennai: Why are our cities so flood-prone?

Cyclone Michaung has brought India’s fourth largest city, Chennai, to its knees. Its recent efforts to…