Companies deliberately put a more positive spin on financial report headlines, successfully manipulating investor perceptions and boosting stock prices, finds new research from the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business.

For the past seven decades, a dangerous pattern has been observed. Western media consistently misrepresents India while portraying Pakistan and some Islamic regimes as innocent.

Once heralded as the Fourth Pillar of Democracy, journalism in India today stands precariously weakened by something more insidious: the steady invasion of public relations, the dominance of corporate messaging, and the deliberate spread of false narratives.

More than half of journalists fear their jobs are next. Are we watching the slow death of human-led journalism?

The more a fake news story talks about the future, the more likely it is to be spread on X, formerly Twitter. Research from Trinity Business School has found that this is linked to human evolution.

Despite objections from states like Tamil Nadu, the idea of making Hindi a mandatory language across India is a necessary, intriguing, yet risky initiative.