India's H-1B edge needs complianceIn light of escalating US scrutiny surrounding skilled worker visa fraud, Indian companies are feeling the pressure, as a significant share...
13 Jul, 2026, 11.37 PM IST
Update poll rolls, don't erase citizensBihar's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls faces controversy over potential voter disenfranchisement, raising concerns about the...
10 Jul, 2025, 10.52 PM IST
Water, India's great bottled-up problemIndia faces an unprecedented water crisis with nearly 600 million people experiencing extreme water stress. Societal divides widen due to w...
02 Jan, 2025, 11.22 PM IST
What is known as deficit financing?Deficit financing, through borrowing or currency issuance, is crucial for economic growth in countries like India. Government intervention ...
10 Jul, 2024, 10.09 AM IST
View: Destabilise the PyramidFocusing on empowering the poor, and treating them as a homogeneous group, enables policymakers to dive deeper into their socioeconomic sta...
24 Nov, 2023, 12.30 AM IST
Mental health is universal human right, need to destigmatise mental health issues: WHOThe World Health Organisation (WHO) emphasized the importance of accessible mental health services for all, regardless of socioeconomic sta...
10 Oct, 2023, 12.24 PM IST
An NFHS question shows why questionnaires need to be reworked and updated from first principlesSurvey questionnaires need to be reworked from first principles in consultation with today’s policymakers rather than blindly perpetuating ...
23 Apr, 2023, 11.21 PM IST
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There are many associated features of specific LD, or SLD, that are specific to the Indian context. These include the fact that bi- and mul...
27 Jan, 2023, 10.57 PM IST
India raises issue of IT jobs scam with Myanmar leadershipKwatra held discussions with the senior leadership of Myanmar and expressed India's continued support to people-centric socioeconomic devel...
22 Nov, 2022, 08.45 PM IST
View: The central government should bite the data and initiate a more meaningful caste-based censusSound data is the bedrock of evidence-based policymaking. Without robust data to rely on, policy moves degrade into policy conjectures. The...
25 Aug, 2021, 09.01 AM IST
Covid-19: UN, WHO devise a joint plan to tackle India's health issuesThe United Nations has drawn up a joint response plan for India along with the World Health Organization (WHO), focusing on health and othe...
14 Apr, 2020, 10.49 AM IST
TalentSprint announces women engineers program supported by GoogleThe participation of women engineers in the technology sector globally still only stands at 26%, as per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
15 Apr, 2019, 12.20 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi meets Aung San Suu Kyi, discusses bilateral and regional issuesExternal Affairs Ministry spokesman tweeted that the discussions included follow-up on key decisions taken during the PM's Myanmar visit in...
24 Jan, 2018, 09.53 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj calls Sheikh Hasina, vows to back Dhaka on Rohingya issueMore than 300,000 Rohingyas have poured into Bangladesh since the latest flare-up in violence on August 25, adding to around 300,000 refuge...
15 Sep, 2017, 11.42 PM IST
Will Supreme Court consider nikah halala, polygamy challenges as well?Nikah halala is the practice of temporary marriage and divorce that makes it permissible for an already divorced woman to remarry the previ...
26 Aug, 2017, 01.09 AM IST
Lack of political will to address complex health issues: Vikram PatelPsychiatrist, listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people, rues issues like suicide are not seen as health issues but...
20 Apr, 2015, 07.21 PM IST
Government set to defer tobacco pictorial warning notificationOn implementation of the notification, India will be the only country in the world with largest pictoral warnings on tobacco products.
27 Mar, 2015, 05.09 AM IST