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Smog then floods: Pakistani families 'can't catch a break'Heavy monsoon rains caused severe flooding in Pakistan's Punjab region. Ghulam Bano, a resident of Shahdara, faces displacement after movin...
29 Aug, 2025, 09.27 PM IST
China said to cut pay by half for staff at top financial regulatorsChina implements significant pay cuts for staff at its top three financial regulators, including the central bank, starting in 2023. Staff ...
14 Jan, 2025, 02.34 PM IST
Chinese youth flock to civil service, but slow economy puts 'iron rice bowl' jobs at riskA record 3.4 million Chinese applied for the civil service exam this year, seeking job security amidst an economic slowdown and high youth ...
30 Dec, 2024, 07.18 AM IST
Experts warn of heat risks as India's temperatures climb againIndia is facing a severe heatwave, with temperatures in several cities exceeding 45 degrees Celsius. The city of New Delhi has seen tempera...
30 May, 2024, 07.32 PM IST
World cannot afford India to follow China's manufacturing model, says Raghuram Rajan"Weightless services also consume little energy on the way to the final consumer, unlike manufactured goods. Export-led services growth wil...
18 Oct, 2022, 03.20 PM IST
View: India needs to be a humming knowledge hubThe budget prioritises infrastructure in smaller cities. This is a must for India’s IT to adopt more bases.
02 Feb, 2022, 03.02 AM IST
Next big killer here already? Cooling pandemic offers little relief as unforgiving heatwave singes IndiaUpdated projections warn of unprecedented killer heatwaves on the near horizon, according to a 4,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climat...
02 Jul, 2021, 02.24 PM IST
After Covid, could the next big killer be heatwaves?The chilling report by the UN's climate science advisory panel paints a grim -- and deadly -- picture for a warming planet. If the world wa...
23 Jun, 2021, 09.17 AM IST
Doctors reveal how pressure to make profits forces them to adopt wrong practices in pvt hospitalsMy conscience began pricking and I left the hospital- Dr Gautam Mistry, Kolkata, cardiologist who left a corporate hospital after seven yea...
22 Feb, 2015, 11.01 AM IST
Population density, the most important aspect of urban planningA generation of planners such as le' Corbusier and others followed up with Amsterdam, Brasilia, Chandigarh and Navi Mumbai as planned citie...
03 May, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
New cities built around high-speed train corridors desirableA near-perfect correlation between urbanisation and economic growth has been established by several studies done by World Bank and others.
24 May, 2012, 07.33 AM IST