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Rapid rise in students cycling to school in rural India, girls leading 'silent revolution': Research
The scholars at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and the Narsee Monji Institute of Managem…
PTI
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As India’s income inequality worsens beyond British-era levels, majority want to tax the rich, study reveals
A study by the World Inequality Lab has shown that Indian billionaires already own a disproportiona…
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Universal basic income: Should the government give ‘unconditional money’ or ‘freebies’ to the poor?
This is where results of the experiment conducted by Sam Altman’s OpenResearch could help shed some…
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11.9 lakh excess deaths in 2020 during the pandemic, 8 times more than official estimates, notes a recent study
Looking at social groups, the researchers found that high caste Hindu groups experienced a life exp…
PTI
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Inequality rising since 2000s, top 1% in India holds 40% wealth, says study
Inequality in India has skyrocketed since early 2000s, with the income and wealth share of top 1 pe…
PTI
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Incomes are either rising too slowly or falling at the lower end of the bracket
India’s gross domestic product (GDP) has been growing at a much faster clip than expected — most go…
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India deserves permanent UNSC seat: Bhutan
He also expressed "deepest" gratitude to India for its "support and friendship" for his country's j…
PTI
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Gandhi Jayanti 2024: Mahatma’s legacy of peace in a world teetering on the edge of large-scale wars
On Gandhi's 155th birth anniversary, the world grapples with rising conflicts, including the Iran-I…
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India needs to avoid financialization as it marches towards Viksit Bharat goal, says Nageswaran
Financialization is the dominance of financial market expectations trends, and importantly, interes…
PTI
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Jaishankar reaffirms commitment to UNSC reform in meet with G4 counterparts
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with his counterparts from Brazil, Germany, and Japan in…
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My wife and I gave up $1 million in Big Tech pay to move from California back to India. I couldn't find purpose in the US.
Nithin Hassan left a job at Meta in California last year to move to to Bengaluru with his wife and …
Shubhangi Goel
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PM Modi's 'Billionaire Raj' more unequal than even British Raj: Congress
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared on X a media report which …
PTI
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Digital inequality, debt, cost of living crises among top 5 risks for India in 2 years: WEF
These were the top five risks identified in an executive opinion survey on national risk per…
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PM Modi calls for secular civil code, says existing laws discriminatory
"A large section of the country believes, which is true also, that the civil code is actually in a …
PTI
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Job creation remains India’s top economic challenge, per experts polled by Reuters. How can the government resolve this?
India may be the world’s fastest-growing major economy, but dealing with its chronic unemployment w…
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Rise seen in financial inclusion index, jobs in the country, notes RBI
Improvement in FI-Index is mainly contributed by usage dimension, which further reflect deepening o…
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Transition to net-zero should be inclusive to avoid accentuation of social inequality, says ITC CMD Puri
In his address at the Business-20 (B20) India inception meeting in Gandhinagar, Puri also called fo…
PTI
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Almost all — 92% — of Ladakh children suffer from anaemia and the rest of the country isn’t faring any better either
The number of children with anaemia has increased from 58% in 2015-16 to 67% in 2019-21 in India, s…
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India wants to be the new China. Modi's shock election result shows it won't be easy.
Decision-making and policy changes in the world's largest democracy will take far longer than they …
Huileng Tan
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The educational gap between poorer and richer households is growing in India and much of Asia, thanks to climate change
According to a UNESCO report, high temperatures are leading to poorer grades and worsened performan…