Plain-language research, current policy, honest method
Short, evidence-based pieces on the questions our clients and readers actually face — journal integrity, financial inclusion, accreditation and method. Written by our Principal Consultant, grounded in peer-reviewed work, and dated so you can see when they were current.
The UGC-CARE list is gone. How to verify a journal in 2026.
India discontinued its approved-journal list in 2025. What replaced it, why lists were always fragile, and the three free checks that actually settle the question.
Financial inclusion · 7 Jul 2026What 500 households in India's urban slums taught us about digital money
Field evidence on e-payment adoption and the JAM trinity — and why access to digital finance does not automatically become capability.
Institutional advisory · 7 Jul 2026NAAC changed the rules: what binary accreditation and MBGL mean for your IQAC
The A++ to C grade is retired. A practical guide to the new pass/fail accreditation, the five maturity levels, and AI data cross-verification.
Every insight is written by Dr. Jaskirat Singh and draws on peer-reviewed research listed with DOIs on our Publications page. We date each piece and cite our sources, because a claim you cannot check is only an opinion.