Why coaching culture – ‘India’s tuition republic’ bigger than ever – is now an epidemic

The Tuition Republic of India is bigger than ever. Coaching culture is now an epidemic

The current market revenue of the coaching industry in India is Rs 58,088 crore. Its growth is estimated to reach Rs 1,33,995 crore by 2028, reports Jyoti Yadav.

Delayed under UPA, expedited under NDA – 10 big-ticket infra projects that sprang up after 2014

Prime Minister Modi has often claimed that the BJP government fast-tracked or completed major projects that were lax under the UPA regime. Here are 10 such projects, reports Moushumi Das Gupta.

Indian scholars at Cambridge solve 2,500-year-old Sanskrit algorithmic problem in Panini’s text

Octadhyayi, which consists of rules for deriving or forming new words from root words, often has conflicting rules. Scholar finds way to resolve rule conflicts in text as Pāṇini intended, reports Sandhya Ramesh,

Ukraine is now a bottomless pit for Western aid. No attention has been paid to its past corruption

The longer the war drags on, the less Ukraine’s ability to fight systemic corruption because more money and weapons will flow in to maintain the country, writes Swasti Rao,

Did the Mauryas really unite India? Archeology Says ‘No’

The Mauryas were important not because they were Nehru and Patel in the third century, but because they are among the few people we know from the most remarkable period, writes Anirudh Kanisetty,

You are at your peak. There is no place for two Hindutva parties in Indian politics

AAP is experimenting with Hindutva but without the legacy like BJP. It has forgotten its USP, writes Dilip Mandal,

Rahul Gandhi will have to choose his poison to ‘add’ the Congress – power or philosophy

What professional politicians seek is power, and they draw uncertain conclusions from Rahul Gandhi’s project, which is heavily ideological but so far non-electoral, writes Shekhar Gupta.