Mint Explainers
Whenever we feel that a news story develops layers and complexity, we get our best reporters to take their time and break down an issue to its core elements. That's how we like to think of Mint Explainers, which are free flowing articles where our journalists bring you the story behind the story.
Mint Explainer | Vedanta demerger gets NCLT nod: Timeline, debt, investor impact
The NCLT has approved Vedanta’s long-delayed plan to split into five listed companies. The ruling clears regulatory uncertainty, shifting focus to timelines, debt allocation and investor gains.
3 min read17 Dec 2025Mint Explainer: Why the insurance bill 2025 marks the industry's biggest reform in decades
The bill seeks to amends three core laws—the Insurance Act, 1938; the LIC Act, 1956; and the IRDAI Act, 1999—to allow 100% foreign direct investment, strengthen regulation, introduce new intermediaries, and accelerate insurance penetration.
5 min read17 Dec 2025Mint Explainer: What Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill means for India's higher education
The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill proposes sweeping changes. Mint explains its potential impact on universities, students, and the future of learning.
7 min read17 Dec 2025Mint Explainer: Government’s homestay push: policies, funding and what states must do
Homestays are gaining popularity as Indians embrace experiential tourism and explore new, offbeat destinations across the country.
2 min read16 Dec 2025Mint Explainer | India’s data centre boom faces a water and power challenge
Discover how looming water scarcity and energy supply challenges threaten to undermine the growth of data centres for which $70 billion of investments have been committed and what solutions are being proposed.
4 min read15 Dec 2025Mint Explainer: Why the RBI is wary of stablecoins—Crypto’s measured wing
RBI deputy governor T. Rabi Sankar, speaking at Mint’s Annual BFSI Conclave 2025, has flagged risks associated particularly with stablecoins. Here's why?
6 min read14 Dec 2025Mint Explainer | What drove China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus—and why it matters
Despite a deepening domestic slowdown, Beijing’s factories are flooding world markets with ultra-cheap goods, pushing its trade surplus past $1 trillion and intensifying pressure on India and other economies.
2 min read11 Dec 2025Mint Explainer | Dirty air trick: How North Indian rice farmers outsmart satellites
With 28,000 square kilometres of crop area lit in 2025 in Punjab and Haryana, the contribution of farm fires to North India’s bad air is likely to be much higher than what is currently estimated, finds a new study.
3 min read10 Dec 2025Mint Explainer | Why new norms for service roads are set to push up India’s highway project costs
Building India’s highways is set to become more expensive after the road transport ministry mandated that service roads and slip roads must be built to the same standards as main carriageways. While the new guidelines aim to improve safety, they will also push up project costs.
4 min read10 Dec 2025Mint Explainer | Why CAG plans to audit government departments in real time
India’s national auditor currently conducts most of its audits after the end of a financial year. This limits its ability to flag risks early and reduces the scope for course correction while a project is underway. The CAG now plans to fix this with continuous monitoring.
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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
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