Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel's latest findings on India go against the common belief in the rise of the middle class.
Inequalities mar India's improvement on the Human Development Index over the past three decades.
Moral habits of seeing fail to register the plight of manual scavengers, whose job is associated with certain castes.
Besides persistent inequality, global hunger is accentuated by climate change, conflict and falling nutrition standards.
Should India be alarmed or relieved that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad will be giving the Bajrang Dal lessons in law?
It is heartening to learn that S. Nambi Narayanan, a former scientist with the Indian Space Research Organization, has finally got justice.
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Between April 2002 and March 2018, there have been 13 major fires in Calcutta - nine of them in markets and warehouses - and Bagree Market is only the latest.
Commercial DNA data storage will not be available any time soon. But when it happens, the storage race may be over.
What else can explain Donald Trump's repeated attempts to weaken institutions that seek to safeguard what is left of threatened ecosystems?
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan's message seems to be that industrialists get support from politicians. Corrupt bankers oblige, or are forced to oblige.
The former minister wants to amend Khasi marriage law, and says women marrying out of the tribe makes its members vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
Pep talks may unite a party but divide a nation. That seems to be the message that can be gleaned from the recent speech that the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party delivered in Rajasthan. Amit Shah thundered that the BJP's political juggernaut has rolled on in spite of the reservations expressed by 'liberals' on Mohammad Akhlaque's lynching in Dadri. Mr Shah also added for good measure that his party remains committed to expel illegal immigrants.
Is suicide a disease? One of the findings in the five studies on the statewise analysis of non-communicable diseases based on data from India as part of the Global Burden of Disease report between 1990 and 2016 shows that 37 per cent of the total number of suicides among women all over the world occurs in India.
In Goa, without a plan or company, and photo ops aplenty
