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A fraction of people use air conditioners in India but these ACs together consume just about as much energy as all the ...
Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from ...
Urban Indian women spend more time working in paid employment but they spend as much time as their rural counterparts in unpaid care and domestic work in the household.
Kawinkumar B is an MA Economics student at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and an intern with IndiaSpend. Urban Indian women spend more time working in paid employment but they spend as much time ...
The crowds at Delhi’s kabootar bazaar. Delhi’s pigeon market Under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Pet Shop) Rules, 2018, shops have to register with the relevant State Animal Welfare Board.
Mumbai: Last year's annual global climate change conference was held on the heels of the Covid-19 pandemic. This year's Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Egypt, which will begin on Sunday, November ...
The Ministry of Labour and Employment (MLE) notified the amendment in the Gazette on March 28, 2017. It came into effect on April 1, 2017, and gave companies three months to set up creches on their ...
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide large employment opportunities at lower capital cost than large industries, but this sector is plagued by low levels of registration. As per the ...
Union government data show that 315,302 people were released from bonded labour in over four decades between 1978 and January 2023, of which 94% have been rehabilitated. Based on the data, the ...
To be sure, India has come a long way from when the board that interviewed Anna Rajam George, the first woman to pass the IAS exam, actively discouraged her, asking her to consider the foreign or ...