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UK's richest 10% took half of wealth from India during colonialism

The United Kingdom extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10 per cent -- enough money to......

What You Can Now Expect Every Election

A freebie once granted can hardly be discontinued. All that can happen is to substitute it with a bigger freebie, notes A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi presents a cheque to......

How To Be Aware About Early Heart Disease

'Thirty per cent of the world's deaths in young people, due to heart disease, are Indians.' IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind......

6.7 Million Indian Children Have Zero Food

'The response from the government using words like malicious, deliberate, etc is diverting from the real issue.''The indicators related to young children such as stunting or child mortality are a......

'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

How the wealth of India's richest can make a difference

An additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders, while a similar wealth tax on the 98 richest billionaire families......

MIT congratulates Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo

MIT, in a release, said the 'work of Duflo and Banerjee has emphasised the use of field experiments in research, to bring the principles of laboratory-style randomised, controlled trials to......

Hail the power of networks!

Not just in the fight against COVID-19, but also in politics, economics and society, observes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Words such as 'infection', 'social......

Where have all the women bankers gone?

Women dominate Indian banks's clerical and officer rolls, but few make it to the executive office these days, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay. In the run-up to Business Standard's annual banking......

'Gita is one of the world's outstanding economists'

Although the first woman to hold the position of chief economist at IMF, it would be wrong to see her appointment through the lens of gender, notes Indivijal Dhasmana.Illustration: Dominic......

10 Youth Shows You Must Watch On OTT

Ever so often, when cop-and-gangster shows or family drama on OTT start getting audiences restless, streaming platforms trot out 'youth' content, to lasso back the wandering teen and young adult......

'If you have too many girls, that's a problem'

'If you don't have children, that's also a problem.''There's no right way to live because everybody has an opinion about your personal life, and how you should live.''You have to listen to them,......

11 BEAUTIFUL STORIES From Around The World

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival. As the pandemic situation began to improve and movie theatres opened up in North America, the Toronto......

Which of these films will win Oscars?

Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the Toronto International Film Festival. The COVID-19 pandemic hit us hard, but the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival is a......

'Akshay has been my biggest cheerleader'

'My grandmother taking me to the jamatkhana was like a different world.''Like I had a key to a door which no one else seemed to have.''She doesn't take me anymore because she says I'm an......

Smriti Mandhana's Journey To 3.4 Crore

Smriti Mandhana isn't actually known to be the most prolific T20 player -- her career T20 International average of 27.32 is middling at best.There have been failures too, but her ability to analyse......

Maken proposes marks to students for fitness

In a bid to ensure better health and promote sports culture among kids, Sports Minister Ajay Maken has come up with a proposal under which school children will get marks for physical fitness.......

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