China’s factory activity expanded in July at the slowest pace in 17 months as higher raw material costs, equipment maintenance and extreme weather conditions weighed on business activity, adding...

Maruti Suzuki India and Tata Motors have extended free service and warranty period up to June 30, 2021. For Maruti the extension is for warranty and service contracts expiring between March 15 and Ma...

The birthrate declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, the federal government reported on Wednesday, early evidence that the coronavirus pandemic accelerated a trend among American women of delay...

The human cost of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of lost livelihoods keeps rising. But India experienced the biggest fall in its middle class and a much sharper increase in poverty than neighbouring C...

Sakshi Thakker, 27, had been working as a web-content developer for over four years but she had always dreamt of being a scriptwriter. The pandemic-induced lockdown was just the push she needed. &ldqu...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said there were visible signs of revival in the economy but growth may contract or be near zero in the current fiscal. She said the economy saw a contra...

The economy needs continued fiscal stimulus to get back on a growth path, says Pronab Sen, chairman of the standing committee on statistics and programme implementation. Without stimulus the growth r...

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The cash crunch, resulting from a Covid-induced economic slump, is getting starker. And so is the vulnerability of daughters. Over 70 child marriages have been averted in two districts of Bengal sinc...

India’s travel and tourism industry and the entire value chain is likely to lose around Rs 5 lakh crore, or $65.57 billion, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hotel occupancy is likely to be at ...