Trump picks anti-vaccine activist as health secretary

United States President-elect Donald Trump announced his decision to nominate former Democratic presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. as his Secretary of Health and Human Services. The......

Taxing ultra-wealthy can boost GDP by 2.73%: Piketty-backed Study

India needs to impose a 2 percent tax on net wealth exceeding Rs 10 crore and a 33 percent inheritance tax to deal with the problem of rising inequality in the country, a new research paper......

'Pakistan Intelligence Have Killed Hundreds Of Baloch'

'If the government sincerely addressed the issue of missing persons, it would alleviate 80% of the grievances in Balochistan.''No matter how many development projects Islamabad announces for the......

US ex-defence secy, architect of modern Indo-US security ties, Carter dies

US former defence secretary Ashton Carter, considered to be the architect of modern India-US security partnership, has died. He was 68. In a tribute, President Joe Biden called him a “born......

India's richest 1% holds 40% wealth, says study

Inequality in India has skyrocketed since early 2000s, with the income and wealth share of top 1 per cent population rising to 22.6 per cent and 40.1 per cent, respectively, in 2022-23, according......

Top 1% Indians Earn 23% Of Income

Wealth, which can broadly be a measure of assets held as opposed to income earned, is unequally distributed. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   India's richest people now have a larger......

Reports of coal crisis baseless: Sitharaman

Amid reports of the ongoing coal shortage in the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed that there is no shortage and termed these as “absolutely baseless”, saying India......

Pradhan discusses LNG imports with US counterpart

Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, who is in Washington, DC, discussed with the new US Energy Secretary Rick Perry the possibility of importing LNG from America and......