India ranks 116th in World Happiness Report 2026In the freshly released World Happiness Report 2026, India has ascended to the 116th position, showing commendable progress from earlier ye...
19 Mar, 2026, 09.23 PM IST
India slips to 131st position in Global Gender Gap Index 2025India's gender parity ranking slipped to 131 out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum's 2025 report, despite improvements in econom...
12 Jun, 2025, 11.08 AM IST
Pakistan's gender gap index hits rock bottom, second worst globallyWomen's rights activists have issued impassioned pleas for both state and societal commitment to address gender disparities effectively.soc...
07 Jul, 2024, 06.40 AM IST
India ranks 129th on Global Gender Gap index, Iceland on top: WEFIndia dropped to 129th place in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2024, while Iceland retained the top spot. India ranks f...
12 Jun, 2024, 12.01 PM IST
India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index, says WEF reportIndia has moved up eight positions to rank 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity in the World Economic Forum's annual Gender G...
21 Jun, 2023, 04.08 PM IST
India ranks low at 135th for gender parity; worst for health and survival, says WEFOn the health and survival subindex, India ranked the lowest at 146th place and figured among the five countries with gender gaps larger th...
13 Jul, 2022, 04.57 PM IST
Don’t scrap the rank of Brigadier say veteransA majority of the veterans said the time-tested hierarchical structure should not be tampered with.
18 Jul, 2018, 11.15 AM IST
Junior Commissioned Officers are gazetted officers, says ArmyAs for the JCOs, the Army headquarters has cancelled a communication issued by it in 2011, in response to an RTI application, which had sta...
11 Jul, 2018, 05.36 PM IST
Armed forces upset over rank parity with civilians; Parrikar promises to addressThe Defence Ministry issued circular on rank equivalence between defence officers and armed forces headquarters (AFHQ), and civil service o...
11 Jul, 2018, 02.55 PM IST
Being a woman got even worse in 2017: It will take 100 years before women achieve equalityThe global backsliding reflects a general slowing of progress in the world’s larger economies.
02 Nov, 2017, 09.03 AM IST
Rahul's letter to PM Narendra Modi: Demands centre deliver on armed forces' demands as diwali giftGandhi further urged the PM, I urged you to ensure that our soldiers get their due whether it is regarding compensation, disability pension...
29 Oct, 2016, 02.56 PM IST
Gender parity: Despite 21-place jump, India at a lowly 87In this latest edition, the report finds that progress towards parity in the key economic pillar has slowed dramatically with the gap - whi...
26 Oct, 2016, 11.30 AM IST
Meritocracy at risk? Talk of parity raises IAS officers' hacklesNearly 200 IAS officers have so far submitted their representations to Cabinet secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha airing concerns over the repor...
31 Oct, 2015, 01.11 PM IST
Seventh Pay Commission may bring pay parity in civil servants, officers up in armsNearly 200 IAS officers have so far submitted their representations to Cabinet secretary, airing serious concerns over the reported move.
30 Oct, 2015, 10.04 AM IST
India gets poor 101st rank on global gender gap indexThe index has ranked 136 countries on how well resources and opportunities are divided between men and women in four broad areas of economy.
26 Oct, 2013, 12.40 AM IST
- Govt promises to look into armed forces' pay grievances
Rattled by the stand of the armed forces that implementation of the 6th Pay Commission for them be “withheld” till their parity with civili...
03 Sep, 2008, 09.13 AM IST
- India named among world's 10 most gender-biased economies
In the overall ranking, the country has slipped from 98th rank in 2006 when the index included a total of 115 countries. No longer a gender...
11 Nov, 2007, 02.30 PM IST