Indian Economy

Pranab Mukherjee was sworn in as India's 13th President on July 25, 2012, in Parliament's Central Hall, succeeding Pratibha Patil.

July 23, 2012 · 1 min read

Karnataka ended the IT industry's decade-long exemption from the 1946 Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act — and Bangalore's software companies saw

July 23, 2012 · 2 min read

In 2011-12, guar gum prices exploded from Rs 30 to over Rs 500 a kilo as America's shale-fracking boom devoured the crop — turning Rajasthan's farmers into

July 17, 2012 · 1 min read

A July 2012 controversy in Andhra Pradesh: reports that some candidates secured engineering seats via EAMCET counseling despite scoring near zero on the exam.

July 8, 2012 · 1 min read

2G, coal, Commonwealth Games: India's corruption isn't a few bad apples — it's structural. How opacity got woven into how the country actually runs.

June 18, 2012 · 1 min read

India's famously low-crime villages — like doorless Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra — run on community trust and panchayat dispute resolution, not locks.

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

In June 2012 Sachin Tendulkar took oath as a Rajya Sabha member — the first active cricketer nominated to India's Upper House, and a political lightning rod.

June 3, 2012 · 1 min read

After the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the 4.5% minority sub-quota within OBC reservation in May 2012, the IITs decided to ignore it for JEE

May 31, 2012 · 1 min read

The 1,360-km India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway — agreed in 2002, perpetually delayed and re-announced. India's road to Southeast Asia.

May 28, 2012 · 1 min read

A Gujarat village school made national news in 2012 with air-conditioned classrooms — inspiring, startling, and a window into India's rural education gap.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

After years of speculation, Nita Ambani gave Vanity Fair its first look inside Antilia in 2012 — and settled the rumors about whether the family had ever

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

The 2012 plan for free internet on Indian Railways was about more than passenger comfort: ambition, infrastructure reality, and the long road to railway Wi-Fi.

May 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Sham marriages between siblings and paid foreign partners were a known immigration-fraud route. The mechanics, the detection — and the desperation behind them.

April 1, 2012 · 1 min read

India was working toward the Washington Accord, which would give its engineering graduates international credential recognition. Two years later, it happened.

March 26, 2012 · 1 min read

In March 2012 India granted its first compulsory drug license: Natco Pharma could make a generic version of Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar at a fraction of the

March 13, 2012 · 2 min read

Plans for the world's largest Hindu temple in Bihar, modeled on Cambodia's Angkor Wat, drew devotion and doubt in equal measure. The story behind the plan.

March 4, 2012 · 1 min read

Prem Ganapathy reached Mumbai in 1990 with Rs 200 and was robbed on arrival. By 1992 he was selling dosas from a handcart near Vashi station; that cart

February 22, 2012 · 2 min read

Forbes called reclusive 5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava the wealthiest Indian in America in 2012 — worth $1.5 billion, though almost nobody knew his name.

February 11, 2012 · 1 min read

From The India Way to Indra Nooyi: what the 2010 debate about Indian leadership got right — and how the decade that followed confirmed it.

December 6, 2011 · 2 min read

On November 23, 2011, Tata Sons named 43-year-old Cyrus Mistry deputy chairman — heir to Ratan Tata and the $84 billion Tata group.

November 24, 2011 · 1 min read