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The Indian cricket team lost to England by an innings and 159 runs in the second Test at Lord’s. (Reuters)

The golden era of results in Test cricket is here

3 min read . 21 Feb 2019

A widely used measure of fertility levels is the ‘total fertility rate’, or the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime. (Subrata Biswas/Hindustan Times)

What a narrowing Hindu-Muslim fertility gap tells us

3 min read . 21 Feb 2019

What are India’s greatest and worst movies?

What are India’s greatest and worst movies?

3 min read . 20 Feb 2019

India must significantly improve its data infrastructure to sustain its manufacturing competitiveness, suggests study. (Photo: Bloomberg)

India should go digital to boost exports

1 min read . 19 Feb 2019

Of the 149 countries for which ILO has comparable data, only 10 countries have a lower share of women in the paid workforce than India.

Great Indian Family doesn’t help working women

4 min read . 19 Feb 2019

‘Make in India’ has not eased manufacturing woes

‘Make in India’ has not eased manufacturing woes

2 min read . 18 Feb 2019

All these effects hit the poor the hardest (Reuters)

How IST hurts academic outcomes

1 min read . 14 Feb 2019

Soccer Football - Champions League Round of 16 First Leg - Ajax Amsterdam v Real Madrid - Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Reuters)

Four narratives around Champions League 2019

4 min read . 14 Feb 2019

In the first four years of UPA-I, the direct tax-to-GDP ratio improved from 3.8%. Photo: iStock

Tax reforms, not coercion, will boost revenues

3 min read . 14 Feb 2019

FILE PHOTO: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a leader of India's main opposition Congress party and sister of the party president Rahul Gandhi, waves to her supporters during a roadshow in Lucknow. (Reuters)

Can Congress make inroads into Uttar Pradesh?

3 min read . 13 Feb 2019

Mint District Jobs Tracker: Find out how your district scores

Mint District Jobs Tracker: Find out how your district scores

1 min read . 13 Feb 2019

Tribal women have worse nutritional and health outcomes due to the limited reach of welfare schemes, finds a study (.istockphoto)

Why tribal women miss the policy bus

1 min read . 13 Feb 2019

The shift to informal home-based sectors makes it harder to detect child labour (HT)

Where is child labour most common in India?

3 min read . 11 Feb 2019

Finance minister Piyush Goyal’s interim budget 2019-20 delivered it for the farmers as well as the Instragrammers (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Why India needs an independent fiscal council

3 min read . 10 Feb 2019

Early mentorship is more critical than offering tax incentives to encourage innovators, according to study. (iStock)

What drives people to become innovators?

1 min read . 07 Feb 2019

This photo from 2018 Formula 1 season shows (L) Charles Leclerc from Sauber F1 Team donning the Alfa Romeo sponsored polo T-shirt and (R) Sebastian Vettel from Scuderia Ferrari. The iconic Italian luxury carmaker Alfa Romeo is from the same Fiat stable as Ferrari. (Reuters)

Return of the car manufacturers to Formula 1

3 min read . 07 Feb 2019

Desai making a raid during U Mumba’s match against Jaipur Pink Panthers.(File Photo)

The rise of kabaddi and the demise of hockey

3 min read . 06 Feb 2019

Allahabad: A sadhu offer prayers at outside his tent during the ongoing Kumbh Mela. (PTI)

How religiosity transcends class divides in India

2 min read . 06 Feb 2019

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

NDA-II has been more like UPA, and less like NDA-I

3 min read . 04 Feb 2019

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, at the Khelo India Youth Games 2019 in Pune (Twitter)

Where does centre’s ₹1,575 crore sports budget go?

3 min read . 01 Feb 2019