Former Indian Administrative Service officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu were on Thursday appointed as election commissioners, ahead of the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls.......
The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that was linked to caste, is never raised in Indian debates and the disapproval of drink is almost universal, notes......
A wealthy Indian-origin couple and their teenage daughter were found dead in their USD 5 million mansion in the US state of Massachusetts in an apparent domestic violence incident, according to......
Software icon NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday called for spending $1 billion a year to train school teachers by 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India......
President Joe Biden reiterated the United States' unwavering support for Israel and emphasised the need for humanitarian aid for the people of Palestine as he held separate phone calls with the......
The latest flashpoint in West Asia has derailed India’s preliminary plans to resume crude oil imports from Iran, officials said. Photograph: Raheb Homavandi/Reuters In January, officials of......
Wealth, which can broadly be a measure of assets held as opposed to income earned, is unequally distributed. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com India's richest people now have a larger......
Inequality in India has skyrocketed since early 2000s, with the income and wealth share of top 1 per cent population rising to 22.6 per cent and 40.1 per cent, respectively, in 2022-23, according......
'My wife, family members as well as members of the workers will be trustees.''The trust will take all decisions -- no family member can individually take any decision.' On the passing of Subrata......
American economic historian and labour economist Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Economics Prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of......
Writer, director, actor, singer, producer, Farhan Akhtar dons many, MANY hats and makes the world, well Hindi cinema for sure, a cooler place. Three cheers to his multiple talents with Sukanya......
IMAGE: Jonathan David Martin poses with the tiger puppet at the Broadway opening night of Life Of Pi at The Schoenfeld Theatre, in New York, March 30, 2023. Photograph: Michael Loccisano/Getty......
'Rani made it very clear when she signed the film that she would shoot only during her daughter's summer vacation so as not to disturb her role as a real life mother.' IMAGE: Rani Mukerji in Mrs......