Credits: Shapernet Foreign direct investment refers to long-term capital flows by foreign investors into the recipient country, typically aiming to secure a controlling stake in a local enterprise. Key economic spillovers like technology transfer, job creation, market competitiveness, and current account stability incentivise the destination country to more readily accept long-term overseas investment over other short-term capital inflows. The stakes for developing econo

Credits: National Cadet Corps We generally see the expiry date written on the back of any packaged food, trust it and buy it, but what happens when even these dates can’t be trusted? Recently, between August 24 and 29, 2026. A major food safety raid took place in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, by the Food and Drug Administration under Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. The operation targeted Sadhna Enterprises, where original manufacturing and expiry dates on packaged food products wer

While the rest of the world is dealing with petroleum prices and energy reserves, the Chhatarpur and Panna districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, are facing their own crisis. The tribal women villagers of the Chhatarpur region of Madhya Pradesh lay on funeral pyres to protest the Ken-Betwa Link Project in April 2026.