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Is India on the cusp of a gender revolution?

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 2020
Politics

Why Muslims have the first claim on any new ‘backward’ quota

Though 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 2019
Mint-lounge

Reporting India’s rape culture

Journalist Priyanka Dubey speaks about her book on gender-based violence in India, and the power of a good report.

6 min read15 Dec 2018
News

Most dangerous place for women is the home, UN report finds

More than half of all female homicide victims last year were killed by intimate partners or relatives, the report found

4 min read28 Nov 2018
Companies

Reliance General profit rises 27% to Rs165 crore in FY18

Reliance General's online channel registered an increase of 40% in gross premium collected during the year

1 min read21 Apr 2018
Mint-lounge

Svalbard Global Seed Vault: the seeds of our future

As 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 2018
Opinion

Stephen Hawking: Open, curious, sharp till the end

Stephen Hawking may be gone, but his ideas will absolutely not disappear into the void

4 min read15 Mar 2018
News

Myanmar army replaces general in charge of Rakhine operation

Myanmar'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 2017
Opinion

Ignoring the role of women is dismal economics

It'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 2017
Science

LIGO and Virgo: The machines that unlock the universe’s mysteries

LIGO, 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 2017
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The 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

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