Late last month, the 2020 report on accidental deaths and suicides in India released by the National Crime Records Bureau threw up some disconcerting, but not unexpected, data. The pandemic year saw a...

It is five years since demonetization was announced by the prime minister. Demonetization was supposed to be a revolutionary policy that would eradicate black money, improve tax collections, and move ...

Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh wrote on Twitter: “With every passing year, it’s becoming even more clear that 8.11.2016 will be marked in the world’s economic history among the ...

Rights activists and members of civil society organisations stage a protest at the Albert Ekka roundabout in Ranchi on Monday. The protest saw over 50 activists holding placards holding the Centr...

To mark the anniversary of demonetisation, Dhanbad-based numismatist Amrendra Anand (66) flaunted currency notes that were devalued in 2016. However, what made the exhibits more appealing was the fact...

Yechury also sought a withdrawal of excise duties on petroleum products. “Looting the people! Imposing intolerable miseries on people already suffering under the double whammy attacks of Covid &...

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the 1991 reforms in India. There is intense commemoration of what is considered to have been a paradigm shift in Indian economic policies. Thirty years are rar...

A man lost his first job in 2017, amid the slump triggered by the demonetisation. The Covid-19 lockdown robbed him of his second job, a contractual one. At 51, the man started another rigorous job. ...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said Rahul Gandhi “is probably becoming a doomsday man for India”. The finance minister devoted a considerable part of her reply in t...

Celebrated photojournalist Raghu Rai spent a better part of last week covering the farmers’ blockade at the Dakha Singhu and Tikri Kalan borders between Delhi and Haryana. Despite the enhanced&...