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Big age gap between children? Here’s what it means for your retirement, education planning, and family financesIndia’s falling total fertility rate, which currently stands at 1.9, below the replacement rate of 2.1, has ignited debates around smaller ...
Regime change? Inside Reza Pahlavi's faltering bid to lead IranReza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah, is facing growing questions over his leadership ambitions despite years of campaigning fo...
From 2007 to 2015, New York City planted one million trees across its five boroughs, a $400 million campaign to widen the shade canopy and cool streets baking under urban heatNew York City's MillionTreesNYC initiative planted one million trees between 2007 and 2015. This project aimed to cool neighborhoods and im...
Since 2016, China has turned phone users' daily purchases into 122 million real trees; the digital forest now covers 112,000 hectares of drylandAn innovative Chinese app called Ant Forest encourages users to adopt greener habits. Everyday low-carbon actions earn users virtual points...
Deadly heatwaves force an ageing France to confront a hotter futureFrance experienced a severe heatwave, causing many excess deaths and straining funeral services. Funeral director Gautier Caton rented refr...
'Height, not GDP, is the real measure of a country's progress': Woman cites studies to claim that this body part reveals a nation's real wealthHuman height reflects national living standards more accurately than GDP. Early life nutrition and sanitation significantly impact adult he...
Nearly 4 in 10 Delhi EVs are two-wheelers, data shows; experts back EV adoptionDelhi is accelerating its electric mobility drive, with two-wheelers now forming nearly 40% of registered electric vehicles. The city plans...
India's next stock market headache isn't oil but a bigger storm brewing in the skiesIndia's stock market faces a new challenge as a severe "Super El Niño" threatens the monsoon, impacting 56% of GDP tied to consumption. Thi...
Assam, Japan agree to deepen partnership across key sectorsAssam and Japan are set to deepen collaboration in electronics, semiconductors, infrastructure, manufacturing, and entrepreneurship, follow...
Economic Survey 2019: What India needs to become a $10 trillion economy by 2030India needs to spend 7-8% of its GDP on infrastructure annually to becoming a $10 trillion economy by 2030.
DGTR developing web app for submission of info about anti-dumping probes: SurveyThe application would help the industry participate in these investigations which are important trade remedial measures.
Want more jobs, make labour laws easy, says Economic Survey 2019Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2018-19 in Parliament on Thursday.
Maharashtra ranks first in NITI Aayog's ease of doing farm businessThe second area of reforms captured by the index include facilitation and liberalization of land lease.
Explained: Why the Economic Survey had a sky blue coverThe Survey is also inspired by Gandhiji's Talisman: “…Recall the face of the poorest man.
How PM's economic advisers rated the Economic SurveyDebroy cautioned that one should not deviate from the path of fiscal consolidation.
Economic Survey 2019: How to make India's biggest job guarantee scheme workThe Economic Survey has called for regular review and amendment to the definition of ‘work’.
Economic Survey 2019: Focus on infant firms, not dwarfs for job creationJob creation in India suffers from policies that foster dwarfs, that is, small firms that never grow.