India's police force has less than 1,000 women in senior positions like Director-Generals and Superintendents of Police, with 90 per cent of all women in policing serving in the constabulary,......
With its age-old fascination for education, southern states have done better than the North.Start-ups, IT hubs, and industry majors setting up shop have changed the face of the South.Nearly 79% of......
It will be interesting to see what shifts have been recorded in the last decade-and- a-half -- from the effects of demonetisation and Covid's second wave to the drop in fertility and increase in......
Former Chief Justice of India J S Khehar, former chief of Suzuki Motor late Osamu Suzuki, Ram temple architect Chandrakant Sompura, folk singer late Sharda Sinha and hockey player PR Sreejesh are......
'The government does not want to be transparent or accountable. Therefore, they do not want to appoint information commissioners.' Photograph: Kind courtesy RTI INDIA/Facebook The Supreme......
BITS has produced 10 startup unicorn founders in the US. Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy IIM-Calcutta If you thought that......
The goods and services tax council on Saturday decided to levy an 18 per cent GST on margin value on sale of used electric vehicles by businesses and agreed to keep jet fuel (ATF) out of the......
Could the MPCE survey results be used as a basis of reconstructing the Consumer Price Index with new weights, asks Madan Sabnavis. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters The Survey on household......
'We need to be far more careful given the fact that while this is group lending, it's essentially unsecured.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become......
If states have to fall in line with MSPs declared by political parties, they will have to do so in violation of central order or bear the full expense of the surplus procured at above MSP rates.......