India has ranked 131 out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2025, slipping two places from its position last year. IMAGE: Women labourers lift goods on their......
As a protege of Shinzo Abe, Sanae Takaichi is expected to scale bilateral ties much higher.Trade and investment shall grow. People-to-people contacts shall be scaled up, points out Dr Rajaram......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission to provide details of 3.66 lakh voters excluded from the final electoral roll prepared after Bihar's special intensive revision (SIR)......
While data can empower communities, it reinforces identities, making local politics more caste-centric, with decisions increasingly contested on the grounds of representation. Such dynamics could......
'The quality of justice is directly linked to the quality of judges -- if that suffers, justice delivery suffers.' Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff In the leafy lanes of Golf Links, one of......
India has slipped two places on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap index to 129th place, while Iceland retained its top position in the rankings published on Wednesday. Illustration:......
Indian society may be more advanced than we think it is, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com As soon as I saw the title of the research paper 'How do markets......
Can India's corporate leaders not summon the courage to shed their amorality and lobby hard to tamp down the fires of gender and communal conflict that so afflict India today? Gay rights......
Women's representation in government jobs is less than 15%.Abhishek Waghmare reports. IMAGE: An all-women crew operated the Bhopal-Bilaspur Express on March 8, 2019 to commemorate International......
Physical security for women, the first step towards getting them into factories and offices, is all but absent in most Indian cities, notes Kanika Datta. Image: In India, no ITeS company can......
'Thankfully, as Indians, we have a long history of trans people in our culture, in our religions, in our mythology.''It's not a fad which has suddenly come into existence, the way that a lot of......