Across big cities and small towns, women have similar personal and professional aspirations as men, a recent survey suggests. Women also seem to have more social ties outside their own communities than men
3 min read20 Jul 2020Though the general category reservation bill is being sold as a pre-election sop for upper castes, data shows that if the government seeks out the poorest of the eligible poor, the quota should almost entirely go to Muslims
3 min read10 Jan 2019Journalist Priyanka Dubey speaks about her book on gender-based violence in India, and the power of a good report.
6 min read15 Dec 2018More than half of all female homicide victims last year were killed by intimate partners or relatives, the report found
4 min read28 Nov 2018Reliance General's online channel registered an increase of 40% in gross premium collected during the year
1 min read21 Apr 2018As the Svalbard Global Seed Vault completes a decade, we find out if the idea of building a similar bank in India is still viable
6 min read24 Mar 2018Stephen Hawking may be gone, but his ideas will absolutely not disappear into the void
4 min read15 Mar 2018Myanmar's army has replaced Major General Maung Maung Soe, the general in charge of Rakhine State, where an army operation drove over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee
1 min read13 Nov 2017It's high time Asia internalise how much gender disparities hurt growth; in 2015, the UN estimated that failure to utilise female talent costs Asia about $90 billion in annual output
4 min read9 Nov 2017LIGO, Virgo that gave scientists first-ever glimpse of gravitational waves resulting from a collision of neutron stars are the most advanced detectors ever built for sensing tiny vibrations in the universe
2 min read17 Oct 2017The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared