Residents of three villages in Hooghly’s Goghat have hatched a plan to help 16 jobless migrant workers who are back home from Gujarat and Maharashtra. To help the 16 migrants put their lives back on...

In terms of the economy, the popular narrative these days is of gloom. Many large companies are cancelling their offers to new hires scheduled to join in the last couple of months. Some companies have...

The chief economic adviser, K.V. Subramanian, has recently stated that a fiscal stimulus is not necessary to tackle the current economic slowdown because it would lead to a ‘moral hazard’. He was ...

Can laws be said to be effective if they fail to benefit the very people whose rights — and lives — they are meant to protect? This important question is especially applicable in the case of legis...

The services sector in India has been driving economic growth for a long time now. Information technology and information technology enabled services have grown into international hubs of software and...

With the new government in place, it is now time for the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance dispensation to provide a concrete framework to some of its electoral pledges. One such promise ...

In India, there are enough reasons to believe that women are good at planning, arranging and executing things, especially which are long-term in nature. The very practice of saving from the funds give...

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Many analysts have criticized this year’s Union budget for lacking direction. One pattern reflecting the lack of direction is the nature of expenditures budgeted for 2020-21. The spending is spread ...

Employment will be the focus of the Congress's election campaign, party's manifesto committee member Sam Pitroda has said, asserting that the country was going through a jobs “crisis”. Pitroda, a ...