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15.02 / 07:17

Target Career Death show gatherings Investigations China watchers are trying to spot the next target of Xi’s purges

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Beijing’s recent announcement of an investigation into its top general was a bombshell with a mystery at its heart: What pushed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to purge a friend he had entrusted to overhaul the military? Official newspaper editorials have condemned Gen. Zhang Youxia for allegedly undermining Xi’s authority, abetting corruption and damaging efforts to develop China’s combat effectiveness.

12.02 / 01:49

Election Death country stars Will Bangladesh’s elections produce a ‘basket case’?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Henry Kissinger famously called Bangladesh a “basket case." As the nation goes to the polls Thursday—the first election since then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country in 2024 for India amid student protests—a question mark hangs over its future. Will Bangladesh become a basket case again? The country’s fate matters beyond its borders.

11.02 / 15:11

Manufacturing Death stage audience Schools Courts polo Priya Kapur steps into spotlight at Sona Comstar as family feud continues

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: From visiting Sona Comstar’s manufacturing and R&D facilities to presenting a Harvard Business School case study on the company's turnaround led by her late husband Sunjay Kapur, Priya Sachdev Kapur is making her presence felt at India’s eighth-largest auto component maker, even as a court battle over control of the promoter entity continues.

11.02 / 10:33

Racing security Strategy Death stage ventilators Arsenal The return of Dr Strangelove: How MAD logic may be staging a grand comeback in nuclear strategy

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Like a nonagenarian on a ventilator, the most significant arms-control treaty of the last half century quietly expired last week. Those who were responsible for keeping it alive—septuagenarians and octogenarians all—shrugged: ‘What’s to be done, it’s time had come.’ In the salacious excitement of the Epstein revelations of naughty A-lister names, the death of the most meaningful collective security agreement of our lifetime and what it implies barely merited headlines.

10.02 / 01:53

markets COST FIVE CEO Death cover reports The Ulip paradox: Its tax perks come with unexpected long-term trade-offs.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The government brought unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) under the tax net in 2021 to discourage their sale as investment-only products and to bring some parity with mutual funds, an investment product they are often pitted against. Now, maturity proceeds from high-value Ulips are taxed as capital gains under the current rules.

09.02 / 08:35

markets Entertainment Death President show social pop Manu Joseph: How Korean pop culture conquered the world—and can anyone really claim credit for it?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Before dawn last Wednesday, three sisters in Ghaziabad, all minors, jumped out of a high-rise flat and ended their lives. In the confused explanations that followed, it emerged that the girls were fixated on Korean pop culture and that their family had tried to restrain them.

06.02 / 08:01

COST UPS Extreme Death President Climate change is costing the economy—whether climate-deniers admit it or not

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you’re a climate-change denier in the eastern US, including the president, then the past few weeks have been a dream. It’s cold and snowy where I live, you might say, colder and snowier than in years.

31.01 / 10:33

UPS CEO Death wellness 2020 Courts Former Citibank India CEO Pramit Jhaveri not to seek another term at Sir Dorab Tata Trust

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru and Mumbai: Former Citibank India CEO Pramit Jhaveri has decided not to seek another term at the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, one of the two principal trusts that controls the $300-billion Tata group of companies. His term expires 11 February.

26.01 / 09:49

markets Align Death Courts rights Updates peace Nominee vs heir: Why your bank nomination doesn’t decide inheritance

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For most households, filling out a nomination form feels like settling succession itself. Once a nominee is named for a bank account, insurance policy, or mutual fund, there is a widespread assumption that the nominee automatically becomes the owner after death.

26.01 / 08:29

COST Citi Waters Death show country hospital Heed Gita Gopinath’s warning from Davos: Pollution is silently taxing India’s health and growth

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Harvard Professor Gita Gopinath told a Davos audience that pollution costs India more dearly than tariffs, she wasn’t being provocative. She was making a strictly economic point: pollution is a continuous tax on productivity, public finances and human capital—unlike tariffs, which are episodic and negotiable.

22.01 / 08:35

UPS Digital Strategy Highways Death testing Traffic Mint explainer: What is MoRTH doing to reduce road deaths on India’s highways?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is building highways at a record pace, but safer roads have not followed automatically. With over 4.6 lakh road accidents and more than 1.6 lakh deaths every year, road crashes remain among the leading causes of death for young Indians, imposing a heavy human and economic toll.

22.01 / 08:35

UPS Citi Parke Death War Cycling Schools Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TO UNDERSTAND WHY urban planners like bicycles, stand on a section of Saint Denis Street in Montreal and count the vehicles going by. On a sunny Thursday over a ten-minute period at rush hour, your correspondent counted 132 bicycles (at least a half dozen of which had children on the back) flowing one way.

21.01 / 08:03

Provident Digital Sustainability Highways Death Traffic Haven't paid e-challans or toll dues? You could lose highway access

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Motorists with pending e-challans or unpaid toll dues may lose access to highways under proposed changes to motor vehicle legislation that the Centre is likely to announce during the budget session of Parliament, according to two government officials close to the discussions.

21.01 / 06:35

Citizens Waters Death social information reports prevention Greater Noida tragedy: It was state apathy, not a road accident, that took a young professional’s life

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On a foggy winter night in Greater Noida, 27-year-old Yuvraj Mehta did not die instantly. He did not vanish without warning.

21.01 / 00:25

Provident Death show hospital Courts rights Vaccines From streets to surgery rooms, a solution for India's stray dog crisis

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is preparing a national funding offensive to tackle a burgeoning stray dog crisis, as a surge in attacks and rabies fatalities forces the government to intervene in a long-standing public health failure. The Union budget may propose a scheme to finance the mass sterilization of stray dogs at government veterinary hospitals, three officials familiar with the matter said.

14.01 / 13:49

Action Death President Courts rights Videos Iran signals plans for swift trials and executions of protesters

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Iran signaled Wednesday it was preparing to conduct swift trials and the execution of antigovernment protesters, defying a warning from President Trump as it intensifies a crackdown on nationwide demonstrations. Iran’s judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, said that the courts should act quickly against protesters.

12.01 / 15:23

Manufacturing Analysis Death hospital reports testing medicines States crack down on Almont-Kid syrup after lab finds deadly ethylene glycol

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: State drug regulators in India have launched a massive crackdown and issued urgent public health alerts to stop the use of paediatric cough syrup Almont-Kid after samples from a specific batch were found to contain life-threatening contaminants, according to three government officials and documents reviewed by Mint.

12.01 / 01:35

Citi Death community Experts country cover Courts Mandatory probate on Will removed but it is still a smart move for inheritance

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Parliament in December cleared the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025, which has removed a long-standing procedural hurdle in inheritance by deleting Section 213 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925. The change means that beneficiaries in Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata no longer have to mandatorily get a probate and can now act on a valid Will.

08.01 / 10:41

markets COST Citi Citizens economy Death Healthcare If India’s economy is emerging fast, shouldn’t the value we place on lives be going up too?

At first glance, this may seem like a question for economists and statisticians, a matter of compensation data, actuarial logic and policy benchmarks. It is nothing of the sort. It is a moral question that we in India must ask ourselves.As a citizen who has lived his entire life in India’s metropolitan cities, benefited from a measure of material success and travelled globally, my conclusion is neither emotional nor ideological.

24.12 / 00:55

Aware Sustainability Death trends track electronic reports Budget 2026: Rail safety outlay likely to top ₹1.3 trillion amid scrutiny on accidents

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : As scrutiny over train accidents mounts, the Centre is considering its biggest-ever outlay on rail safety, with allocations likely to cross ₹1.3 trillion in FY27, according to two people aware of the development. The proposed outlay, around 12% higher than the current year’s budget, would be directed towards maintaining rolling stock and critical infrastructure, including track renewals, and the rollout of India’s indigenous automatic train protection system—Kavach, one of the people said, requesting anonymity.

23.12 / 11:37

FIVE Death Research Universities show stage Inside Your brain ages in five distinct stages, new research shows

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

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