In India, 11.9 lakh excess deaths occurred in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 per cent higher compared to 2019, an international study has found. IMAGE: Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims......
'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......
Women constituted only eight percent of the total 1,618 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha polls, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that......
At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......
I have a bit of a personal dilemma: I have a soft corner for Shashi Tharoor, but I do like Rajeev Chandrasekhar's pitch, confesses Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Dr Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Lok......
'it's not just youth in India who are left behind because of their inability to find jobs; nearly two-thirds of Indian women of working ages do not participate at all in the paid labour force.'......
American economic historian and labour economist Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Economics Prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of......
'One cannot take it that the economy has recovered, and the GST payment has increased because of that, or that production is back to January 2020 level.' Illustration: Dominic......
'Without reviving employment, consumer confidence will not go up.' IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announces a stimulus package on October 12, 2020. Photograph: PTI Photo "Unless......
'The real lifting of the economy will happen only if this momentum sustains in the coming months.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Much of the recent data has raised hopes of economic......
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle's words acquire a larger-than-life embodiment in Bollywood's brand of educationists. In Super 30, starring Hrithik Roshan, Bihar-based......