Our daily Long Story is a deep dive into a specific contemporary issue, brought to you from the front lines with original reportage by our best journalists. Each story is carefully written, edited, fact checked and published only when we are satisfied that your time will be well spent reading it.
As youth migrate and palatial homes stand silent, Keralam is crafting a new blueprint for elderly care. From vibrant daycare centres to innovative ‘time banks’, explore how the rapidly ageing state is transforming loneliness into companionship.
9 min read30 Aug 2026While PLI has proven to be a game changer for electronics assembly, the hard part, upgrading factories to manufacture what goes deep inside those products, starts now.
12 min read27 Aug 2026From high-tech scans to continuous AI monitoring, new-age clinics are turning your body into a living data stream. But as healthcare shifts from treating sickness to predicting it, are we truly getting healthier—or just handing over our most intimate biology?
11 min read26 Aug 2026The chipmaker remains dominant for now, but an onslaught of companies is encroaching on its territory.
10 min read25 Aug 2026When the US and Israel launched their aerial assault on Iran on the last Saturday of February, the world’s main oil markets were closed. The price of crude kept moving anyway.
7 min read25 Aug 2026The pharmaceutical company rode one copycat drug to record profits. Now, co-chairman G.V. Prasad has to prove the company can grow without it. Biosimilars and innovation may hold the answer.
11 min read24 Aug 2026Homegrown chip startups are getting silicon out of the lab, but overcoming foreign IP costs and reluctant OEMs will take more than policy mandates.
11 min read23 Aug 2026Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triumphant return to Apple—and the iPhone might not have its foundational operating code.
8 min read21 Aug 2026A convocation controversy at Nalsar has sparked a backlash that has widened into a debate over the Bar Council of India’s powers, accountability and functioning.
11 min read21 Aug 2026The day Tata Sons failed to hold its AGM, the curtain rose on Noel Tata’s real problems. N. Chandrasekaran leaves behind a more powerful Tata Sons, and a clutch of unfinished mega bets.
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