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Stills from Telugu movies Pushpa: The Rise, RRR and Radhe Shyam. Regional actors and film makers are now eyeing newer markets, and making bigger films.

Pushpa and the relentless march of Telugu cinema

9 min read . Updated: 28 Jan 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The BJP may look formidable on the ground, but incumbent governments haven’t got a second chance in Uttar Pradesh for many years.

Ground report: Will Uttar Pradesh remain the BJP's fortress?

10 min read . Updated: 27 Jan 2022

In November last year, 377 million passengers travelled by the Indian Railways—around 52% of the levels in January 2020. (Photo: PTI)

Is Railways on track to draw private capital?

9 min read . Updated: 25 Jan 2022

(File photo:) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives to present the 2020 budget in Parliament, New Delhi. (Photo: Mint)

How to explain the budget to a teenager

9 min read . Updated: 25 Jan 2022

The Cachar Paper Mill at Panchgram in Hailakandi district has been shut since October 2015. Its sister entity, the Nagaon Paper Mill in Central Assam’s Morigaon district, has not functioned since March 2017. nabarun guha

A tale of woe as paper mills fold

9 min read . Updated: 24 Jan 2022

Vegolution founder and chief executive officer Siddharth Ramasubramanian. The company, which launched a soybean-based ready-to-cook food early last year, began with a production of six tons a month and is on track to double it by March. (Photo: Sampath Kumar G P/Mint)

How covid shaped India’s smart protein pie

9 min read . Updated: 21 Jan 2022

FPIs closed calendar year 2021 with an inflow of around ₹26,000 crore, down a whopping 84% compared to 2020. (Photo: Mint)

Are foreign portfolio investors poised to make a spectacular return?

9 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

From left) Prakash P. Hinduja, Srichand P. Hinduja, Gopichand P. Hinduja, and Ashok. P. Hinduja (chairman of NXT Digital Ltd, the flagship media business of the Hinduja Group).

Behind the shareholder tumult at Hinduja Global Services

9 min read . Updated: 19 Jan 2022

Once a drug is approved by the regulator, there is no way to monitor how it is being administered. (Photo: Mint)

A cognitive dissonance in drug regulation?

9 min read . Updated: 17 Jan 2022

The government hopes to set up 292 new industrial zones, whose locations have been finalized–150 of them in Jammu and the remaining in Kashmir. ht (HT)

Will new policies cut Jammu & Kashmir’s investment chill?

9 min read . Updated: 17 Jan 2022

Real time data may pave the way for quick decision making. It may ensure India never runs out of hospital beds, drug supplies, oxygen cylinders and personal protective equipment (Photo: HT)

Why India’s health data needs a booster shot

9 min read . Updated: 14 Jan 2022

Most women workers at Foxconn’s Sriperumbudur facility are migrants from other districts in Tamil Nadu and are paid by external contractors. (Photo: Bloomberg)

What Foxconn should learn from its experience in China to win in India

10 min read . Updated: 12 Jan 2022

Andhra Pradesh, which launched natural farming as a state policy in 2015, is now home to the largest number of farmers in India who have transitioned from chemical nutrients to applying locally prepared natural inputs. (Photo: Mint)

India is waking up to the hidden benefits of natural farming

9 min read . Updated: 11 Jan 2022

If people feel that the prices of things that they buy regularly—like food, vegetables, fuel, clothes—are inching up, then inflation is up in their minds. Mint (Mint)

Govt’s economic decisions now carry the clear signature of election logic

9 min read . Updated: 10 Jan 2022

Teenagers await their turn at a vaccination centre in Mumbai. India has begun vaccinating teens in the age group of 15 to 18, as more states are enforcing tighter restrictions to arrest a surge of infections stoked by the omicron variant. (Photo: AP)

The long road to the perfect covid vaccine

8 min read . Updated: 07 Jan 2022

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has petitioned the Delhi high court alleging that Air India’s disinvestment process was “arbitrary, unconstitutional, unfair, discriminatory, unreasonable” and, therefore, shouldn’t be allowed to go through. (Photo: Mint)

India’s disinvestment record is a chronicle of disappointment

9 min read . Updated: 06 Jan 2022

The frenzy around the LIC share sale is already palpable. Set to be the biggest in Indian stock market history, it is expected to go live in the March quarter. (Photo: Mint)

A new-look IPO market for the new year?

9 min read . Updated: 05 Jan 2022

There was a considerable push from Rana Kapoor, Yes Bank’s founder and former chief, to down-sell the AT1 bonds to individual investors which led to the bank’s private wealth arm acting recklessly, Sebi said. (Photo: Mint)

Did RBI have a change of heart on Yes Bank’s AT-1 bonds?

9 min read . Updated: 04 Jan 2022

Globally, Accenture has successfully built a strong consulting practice mainly by virtue of its legacy existence as Andersen Consulting. The company reported a 13% rise in consulting revenues to $27.3 billion in FY21. mint

Why Indian IT never managed to win big in consulting

9 min read . Updated: 03 Jan 2022

(Clockwise from top left:) Zomato chief executive Deepinder Goyal, technicians at an ONGC plant, GCPPL founder A.Mahendran, people being rescued by the Indian Navy during cyclone Tauktae

Deciphering 2021 with 15 riveting reads

8 min read . Updated: 30 Dec 2021

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