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Are Your Job Postings Driving Away Creative Talent?Many organizations say they want innovative talent but undermine themselves with the wrong recruitment language. An analysis of 10,000 crea...24 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST- PLFS set for fresh overhaul, govt seeks public & expert opinion on upcoming new thingsThe National Statistics Office (NSO), which has conducted the PLFS since 2017, plans to introduce the modifications from January 2027, when...23 Oct, 2026, 07.10 PM IST
- India’s labour survey to soon include platform workers and unpaid household workIndia will update its Periodic Labour Force Survey starting January 2027 to enhance data collection. The modified sampling design aims to i...23 Oct, 2026, 03.18 PM IST
- Nine ways the Trump administration could interfere with the midtermsUS President Donald Trump has made efforts to exert control over the upcoming midterm elections. Many election officials are preparing for ...14 Oct, 2026, 10.11 PM IST
- 6 in 10 Americans believe Trump is profiting unethically or illegally from presidency: AP-NORC pollA recent AP-NORC poll shows that many Americans think Donald Trump is prioritizing his personal financial interests over national welfare. ...13 Oct, 2026, 04.24 PM IST
- Bengaluru’s tax gap, not tax rates, is the real resource problem: Krishna Byre GowdaBengaluru plans to map properties outside the tax network and bring them into the system to widen the tax base without raising rates, Great...30 Sep, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
- In 1976, American animator Bob Boyle helped launch a campaign against Hudson River pollution. 39 years later, EPA's cleanup had removed more than 3 million cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sedimentIn 1976, American animator Bob Boyle helped launch a campaign against Hudson River pollution. The record shows that Robert H. “Bob” Boyle w...21 Sep, 2026, 09.51 PM IST
- US govt sold Apollo 11 moon-dust bag for just $995 in 2015; two years later Illinois woman got $1.8 million for the same bagIllinois woman got $1.8 million for moon-dust bag: A bag used during NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon mission was sold at a US government auction for ...17 Sep, 2026, 12.23 PM IST
- Psychology says people who keep taking breaks at work aren’t necessarily lazy, Their brain may be asking for something elsePeople who take frequent breaks while working are not necessarily less disciplined or productive. Some may simply understand that spending ...15 Sep, 2026, 12.37 PM IST
- Daily vs weekly vs monthly SIP: Does investing more frequently create more wealth?A comparative study of daily, weekly, and monthly SIPs across 5 active equity fund categories and 5 time horizons offers a clear answer.14 Sep, 2026, 06.30 AM IST
- A powerful laser turned diamond into a mirror, and helped solve a 20-year-old mystery about its melting pointScientists precisely determined diamond's melting point using powerful ultraviolet lasers. This experiment resolved a twenty-year scientifi...13 Sep, 2026, 12.08 AM IST
- As midterms approach, new poll finds that few Americans trust campaigns or TrumpAmericans now show less trust in federal government information across key areas. This skepticism has increased since 2024 and is higher th...09 Sep, 2026, 08.38 PM IST
- During Alaska stream research, teams developed an automated salmon-counting system to track fish in sonar video and reduce reliance on manual countingAlaska's manual salmon counting techniques are laborious and expensive. To improve efficiency, new computer vision algorithms are under dev...27 Aug, 2026, 02.40 PM IST
- In 2004, NASA’s Genesis sample capsule crashed in Utah at up to 193 miles per hour; scientists later recovered valuable solar-wind samplesNASA's Genesis mission faced a dramatic mishap in Utah when its capsule crashed after gathering precious solar wind samples. The failure of...22 Aug, 2026, 02.40 PM IST
- In 2011, researchers found cases of biopsy sample misidentification, now Atlanta woman claims she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer, underwent unneeded hysterectomy due to tissue labelling mistakeResearchers studying prostate cancer discovered three cases of biopsy sample misidentification over two years, according to a 2011 research...07 Aug, 2026, 04.17 AM IST
- Just how good are our opinion polls?Even when polls report a sampling error between 3% and 5%, the error in seat forecasts is often as high as 200%.12 Mar, 2014, 01.24 AM IST
- Government plans to launch satellite to improve farm-forecast accuracyGovernment plans to launch satellite for improved estimates, but undecided on size and quality of footmen on ground to collect data.07 Jan, 2012, 05.57 AM IST
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