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Millions of girls fall out of India’s education system after school, simply because there is no safe and affordable place for them to live near college. To plug this gap, the Centre is weighing a national programme to build girls’ hostels in districts with an outlay of about ₹10,000 crore in the upcoming Union budget, according to two government officials aware of the matter.The first official said, requesting anonymity, that the proposal envisages at least one dedicated hostel for girl students in each of India’s 806 districts over the next five years.The hostels will be standalone and not connected to any institution, and they will likely be built at district headquarters, near clusters of colleges and universities.

Consulting firms are queuing up at top-tier business schools with surprising hiring numbers, especially after artificial intelligence impacted employee figures in some of these very companies, according to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), which are among the prominent recruitment grounds for these companies.“We started our final placements earlier and till now 492 of 594 students have been successfully placed, reflecting steady progress in a competitive market environment,” said Debashis Chatterjee, director IIM Kozhikode. “This year witnessed a strong resurgence in consulting and finance roles, with consulting offers rising by nearly 60% and finance roles by about 10%.”These offers are driven by India’s growing role in complex, AI-driven work.

Optimism, especially about our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might be at its worst in the climate change arena, where the Trump administration is in the midst of an all-out assault on green energy and the world is poised to miss the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to no more than 1.5° Celsius.Given that backdrop, I was struck by Bill Gates’ recent announcement of a major— and decidedly optimistic—shift in his thinking about climate change.

©2025/Project SyndicateThe author is professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.Catch all the Business News, Market News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on Live Mint.

Delhi-based Deepika Khosla, 38, a French teacher, and her husband, Mohit Khosla,40, a working professional in the telecom sector, are parents to twins Avighna and Itika, both eight years old and currently in grade 3. Education forms a central part of the family’s monthly budgeting.

shorturl.at/EFYLw) The spirit of the court’s observations could explain many of India’s deficiencies. Poverty in the country results in a tendency to peg everything on it. So India’s plans are often of low calibre.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] Delhi: From the boardrooms of Mumbai to the policy corridors of Delhi, executives began huddling early this year over a little-known but indispensable component found in virtually every vehicle on the road: rare-earth magnets.When China imposed a ban on these materials in April 2025, not many were aware of the critical role these magnets played.

honhar birwan ke hote chikne paat—suggests that the signs of future success are visible early. It sums up the early years of Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani—Dhirubhai—one of India’s greatest industrial empire builders, whose youth too shimmered with portents.Ambani passed away in July 2002, leaving behind a giant conglomerate whose market capitalization today exceeds $250 billion and a legacy that continues to shape Indian business.While the details of his professional life are household lore now, repeated across newspapers, magazines, and films, it’s his early life, vividly captured in Dhirubhai Ambani: The Man I Knew by Kokilaben, that provides fascinating clues to his career.

There are a lot of reasons, some deserved and some not, for Americans' distrust of their institutions. Lately I have been thinking about one of the more counterintuitive ones: Schools, governments and even employers are trying too hard to make things fair.In doing so, they are not only setting themselves up for failure—and eventually mistrust—but they are also misunderstanding the galvanizing role that unfairness plays in a competitive economy.Unfairness can be tempered, but it can never be eliminated.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “Passion doesn’t have to look like ‘rah, rah!’" Bristol-Myers Squibb employees were giving managers pointers on how to tell whether their introverted staffers are excited about their work. After all, it can be hard to tell.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Thirty-five years ago, in a lecture at Stanford Law School, Warren Buffett made an observation that has only grown more relevant with time. "Activity is the mother's milk of Wall Street," he said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Tristan Keyser-Parker, a senior at Brown University, was in a workshop inside the school’s Barus & Holley engineering building Saturday afternoon when he heard someone yell “Intruder!" Keyser-Parker sprinted with about 30 students out a side entrance as police converged on the building. The students fled to the third story of a nearby dorm, where they sat, stunned, on the floor.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It’s tough to go back to school in your 40s. But with layoffs, stagnant pay and inroads by artificial intelligence, many of those nearing midlife are heading back to classrooms and trade schools.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 1784, two white men joined forces to establish an English school in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. John Sullivan was British representative at the court of the local rajah, while C.F.

McKinsey, the world’s foremost consulting company, so influential that it was referred to merely as The Firm. He was the first Asian and the first Indian to head the consulting giant during its glory years, when it still enjoyed a pristine reputation, before scandals like its advising of Purdue Pharma during the opioid epidemic and the Transnet affair in South Africa tarnished its name.During his sterling career, Gupta also helped set up institutions like the Indian School of Business (ISB) and the American India Foundation (AIF).

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Creators of social media platforms have relentlessly pursued child customers and have ignored the technology’s harmful effects. Or so argue tech whistleblowers and at least some members of US Congress.

About the author: John M. Yun is a professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University.Catch all the Business News, Market News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on Live Mint.

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