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ALARMING! Student suicide rate rising in India, surpasses population growth rate

Incidents of student suicides in India have grown at an alarming annual rate, surpassing the population growth rate and overall suicide trends, according to a new report. Illustration: Dominic......

Chronicles Of A Disaster Foretold

'The larger story of systematic destruction, which can and has been quantified, goes mysteriously missing from any political and/or public discourse about the ongoing devastation in the Ghats,'......

Landslide threat to Uttarakhand highway stretch increases: Scientists

Scientists have found that vulnerability of the highway stretch in Uttarakhand between Joshimath and Rishikesh to landslides is likely to increase, owing to continued vegetation removal and......

4.75 lakh rise in death registrations in 2020 not due to Covid: Niti member

The increase in death registration in 2020 compared to 2019 is not entirely due to Covid fatalities, Niti Aayog member VK Paul has said, asserting that "exorbitant" multiples of coronavirus deaths......

The rise & fall & rise again of statistics

Ajit Balakrishnan on the surprising drivers of mathematical innovation. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. The other day, in an attempt to lift the mood of three-dozen......

Economic recovery is not complete

The recovery seen in the increased economic activity till September or October is running out of steam.Labour statistics indicate a substantial slowing down of the economy in November, notes Mahesh......

The good and bad news on jobs

The labour participation rate tells us how many of the working age population are willing to be employed.If this proportion keeps falling as it evidently is, it does not bode well for India's......

'Differences between the two GDP series are minimal'

'Under the new GDP series, there has been reallocation of a few items from one sector to another, from services to manufacturing sectors.' The back series data of GDP released recently by a panel......

Lessons from India's 'brightest investment minds'

'Indians are great savers, but they are lousy investors.'Excerpts from Anuj Shah's Brightest Investment Minds: Their Journeys, Their Insights. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com How many of......

Women suffer a higher unemployment rate

Violence is just too stark, too TRP friendly and so it gets a lot of attention in the media. But the crime of discrimination is much worse because it is much greater, it attracts no attention and......

Review: Island City is a compelling film about Mumbai

Island City should not be missed, raves Aseem Chhabra. Ruchika Oberoi's Island City is set in that massive, over-populated island city called Mumbai. The characters that reside in the three......

How T20 will change!

Fascinating predictions for the years ahead.A revealing excerpt from Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde's Cricket 2.0: Inside The T20 Revolution on the eve of the IPL 2021 Players Auction. IMAGE: The......

Kohli, Shastri never bullied selectors, says MSK Prasad

'It is a common misconception that people think players who have played more cricket have more knowledge or more power and can bully anybody but it is not the fact.' 'We have groomed around 35 new......

Called to account

A few days ago, in the New Zealand Herald, I read this article that suggested, among other things, that cricket fans in that country were feeling diddled by the Indian team's non-performance.The......

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