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Mint Beat Report takes you behind the headlines, offering a rare look at how Mint’s reporters chase stories, uncover details, and navigate challenges. From on-ground reporting to editorial choices, it reveals the process, voices, and context that shape the journalism you read every day.
The Beat Report: When I met my own March sisters
As a reporter, one harbours a wishlist to interview a few interesting personalities. In this edition of The Beat Report, Mint's Satish John recounts his one such meeting that took him back to Little Women.
5 min read8 Nov 2025The Beat Report: What I learnt crisscrossing Goa in an i20 with a notepad
In this edition of The Beat Report, Mint’s Soumya Gupta travels to Goa to see why India’s party capital is losing its sparkle — from taxi unions to pricey hotels and a shift in what tourists really want.
5 min read1 Nov 2025The Beat Report: Work, family, and the festival blues
In this edition of The Beat Report, Mint’s Devina Sengupta unpacks the festival-season-induced emotional tug of war—the not-so-subtle ways our professional lives reshape family bonds and personal traditions.
5 min read4 Oct 2025The Beat Report: How I measured the sleeping patterns of 450,000 Indians
In this edition of The Beat Report, Mint's Tanay Sukumar describes how he navigated a data maze to produce a massive analysis that highlights the acute gender gap in sleeping habits in India.
8 min read20 Sep 2025The Beat Report | How actors' vanity vans could be killing India's movie business, slowly
In this edition of The Beat Report, Lata Jha explains how exorbitantly high fees charged by film stars and their unrealistic demands from film producers ultimately end up bleeding our pockets.
4 min read13 Sep 2025The Beat Report | Hushed chatters, mad swings: Three weeks of reporting India’s online-gaming ban
In this edition of The Beat Report, Shouvik Das recalls how a single phone call thrust him into the chaos that came with the Indian government’s decision to ban online real-money gaming.
5 min read6 Sep 2025The Beat Report | Bold and banned: how we profiled the Ullu app and its elusive founder
In this edition of The Beat Report, Soumya Gupta opens up about challenges in writing a profile of Vibhu Agarwal, the founder of now-banned erotica OTT app Ullu, “from the outside”, as the man himself declined to be interviewed.
6 min read30 Aug 2025The Beat Report: The curious case of sugar-fed and 'lazy' madam bees
In this edition of The Beat Report, Sayantan Bera chases a lead on bees turning 'lazy'. His inquiries and a field trip to Alwar reveal fascinating details about bees and the honey trade.
4 min read23 Aug 2025The Beat Report: Five realities of influencer life you won’t see on Instagram
Mint reporter Pratishtha Bagai shares some dark secrets of the fast-growing and the seemingly ‘picture-perfect’ creator economy.
6 min read16 Aug 2025The Beat Report: The theatre vs OTT debate actually isn’t a debate at all
In this edition of The Beat Report, Mint's media and entertainment correspondent Lata Jha writes about what it will take to get people to throng theatres.
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Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared