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'Bihar Supplies Labour To The World...'

'...yet struggles to convert that human capital into domestic productivity.' IMAGE: Passengers board a train at Patna Junction railway station. Photograph: ANI Photo At his rally in Samastipur......

Jamiat chief flags Muslim discrimination, cites Al Falah case; draws flak

Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind chief Maulana Arshad Madani's remarks alleging discrimination against Muslims while citing the example of the Al Falah University, which is under scanner in the Delhi blast......

Gujarat woman held for links to global cyber slavery racket

The Gujarat police arrested a Vadodara-based woman allegedly working for international gangs involved in trafficking job aspirants to Myanmar and Thailand for "cyber slavery", the case in which at......

50 Mn To 100 Mn Indians Suffer From Long Covid

Even by conservative assumptions that 5 to 10 per cent of infected individuals develop long Covid, India today may be home to 50 to 100 million infected individuals -- many silently coping with......

Nitish Kumar Has The Opportunity Of A Lifetime To Change Bihar

If he cannot do it this term by using his bureaucracy and experts from different fields, it will be a tragedy, asserts Ramesh Menon. IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at an election meeting......

Why Banks Are Struggling For Deposits

As deposit growth lags credit expansion, Indian banks face shrinking low-cost Casa inflows, rising funding costs, and structural shifts driven by UPI, e-Kuber, and digital savings trends, points......

M&M, Manulife to form life insurance JV with 7,200 crore investment

Canadian firm Manulife and Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), an Indian automaker with interests in financial services, have signed an agreement to form a 50:50 life insurance joint venture (JV) with a......

'Confident of good trade deal with US'

Officials from both India and the US in the recent past have indicated that a “fair deal” will be concluded soon, with Indian officials holding that more formal rounds of talks are not needed.......

'After GST cut, innovation will boost life insurance'

The reduction in goods & services tax (GST) on individual life and health insurance premiums has been called a “landmark step” for making insurance affordable and inclusive. Illustration:......

How Your Grievances Can Be Fixed!

CPGRAMS -- an online platform available to citizens 24x7 to lodge their grievances to public authorities on service delivery -- has existed for close to two decades. But it has never been this......

Lokah Review: Intriguing!

The Kalyani Priyadarshan starrer is the kind of incentive superhero origin story that can alter the way such films are made in Malayalam cinema, asserts Arjun Menon. Lokah opens up new......

Coming Up, World Corporate Chess In Goa

'India is quickly becoming the beating heart of modern chess, and its role as an economic power is more and more visible.' IMAGE: Goa to host the 2025 World Corporate Chess Championship with FIDE.......

Football Friendlies: England rout Wales; Denmark batter Belarus

Tuchel's England thump woeful Wales in friendly IMAGE: Morgan Rogers celebrates scoring England's first goal against Wales during the friendly match at Wembley on Thursday. Photograph: Hannah......

Team India Sponsorship: BCCI bars gaming, crypto firms

IMAGE: India Test captain and T20I vice-captain Shubman Gill. Photograph: BCCI The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday invited bids for the Indian cricket team's title sponsorship......

Club World Cup: Chelsea set up Benfica clash

IMAGE: Esperance Sportive de Tunis' Rodrigo Rodrigues in action with Chelsea's Josh Acheampong and Dario Essugo. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters Goals from Tosin Adarabioyo, Liam Delap and......

'We need to bring back Chinnaswamy's lost glory'

'This is something which has never happened where the international matches have been moved out. It is not a good thing.' IMAGE: The stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on June 4......