While smart cities have boosted life satisfaction for residents in some parts of world, in others, communities don’t have access to basic resources, let alone novel technologies.
In survey spanning 36 countries, Pew Research tried to ascertain what people thought were major causes of inequality. In India, more people blamed automation than in most other countries.
Unlike a tsunami or an earthquake or flooding, where death and destruction are violently visible, heatwaves are not considered natural disasters in India.
The long-run income inequality dynamics in India over the period of 1951-2022 has seen an increasing graph of the share of the top 10% population touching nearly 60% in recent years.
3 decades ago, half the people in India had incomes greater than $2.15 a day. Today 7 out of 8 do. Unemployment, though, remains a problem with no easy answer to providing well-paying jobs.
Global warming has had a negative effect on livelihoods, labour efficiency and increased energy consumption — all of which trigger a cycle of adverse climatic impact, the report says.
In a new book ‘Dynamics of difference', put together over a period of four years, economist Narendra Pani attempts to spell out the different levels of inequality in rural India.
Attacks against the queer community are launched with twin purposes: to strike the fear of endless memefication in the hearts of trans people and dismiss the political movement they’re a part of.
Pakistan is seeing stabilisation without transformation, satisfied creditors without serving citizens & its most lauded fiscal achievement is deteriorating, even before it's fully realised.
The primary task of the over 100 AN-32s with the IAF is to deliver all that is needed for sustenance of soldiers across the country, from high altitude and mountainous terrain to the island chains.
It’s a perfectly reasonable presumption that Modi will be around for a significant enough time for us to reflect on the challenges that lie ahead. I will list five.
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