Time to speak up: What women want from elections

Ahead of the upcoming elections, political parties have started announcing incentives to benefit women, but what do women truly seek for genuine gender parity, asks Nivedita Mookerji.......

'Educated youth prefer to be unemployed rather than under-employed'

'When manufacturing or even services cannot generate the kind of employment they are looking for, they prefer to be unemployed rather than under-employed.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......

'Ram Mandir Is With 2024 Election In Mind'

'We should not underestimate the power of Hindutva.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi arrives at the Shri Ram Janmaboomi Temple in Ayodhya for the pran pratishtha ceremony, January......

Telangana Polls: KCR's Affinity With Freebies

The situation raises concerns about whether the promised freebies will once again push the state into a revenue deficit. IMAGE: Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao -- who is also......

'Huge demand for life insurance products in India'

'As our per capita income increases and various demographic segments emerge, the need for various kinds of protection and risk covers will become even more explicit.' Photograph: Kind courtesy LIC......

Share of urban women with salaried jobs at 6-year low in Q2: PLFS

As more companies ask their employees to return to office after the pandemic, the share of women employed in regular salaried jobs in urban India decreased from 54 per cent in the first quarter to......

Indian middle class will nearly double to 61% by 2046-47: PRICE Report

The size of India’s middle class will nearly double to 61 per cent of its total population by 2047, from 31 per cent in 2020-21, as continuing political stability and economic reforms with a......

Budget 2023: Tax sops, fiscal consolidation, a tight rope walk for Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will have to do a tight-rope walk between staying fiscally prudent and general public expectations of lower taxes and a wider social security net, while at the......

Milkha Singh on the Race of his Life

'Somehow the Flying Sikh has endured in people's memory.' IMAGE: The Legendary Milkha Singh, who passed into the ages on June 18, 2021. Photograph: PTI Photo This feature was first published on......