India’s labour participation rate, very low by world standards, fell sharply after demonetisation. Women bore the brunt Monthly measurement of the unemployment rate is one of the requirements of the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The SDDS — India was one of the early …
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A Himalayan travesty
Survivors of sex trafficking in Nepal were shocked when a local politician convicted of selling young Nepali girls to brothels in India was released by the Supreme Court of Nepal last year. Rajneesh Bhandari reports on the victims’ fight for justice On a cloudy day in October 2018, Nirmala Tamang, …
Read More »Deepa Mehta to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Academy
Lifetime Achievement award for Deepa Mehta The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced that it will honour filmmaker Deepa Mehta with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The film director will be presented the award during Canadian Screen Week, which begins on March 25.PTI Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-life/deepa-mehta-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-award-from-canadian-academy/article26220450.ece
Read More »A pill to end drug injections
It can inject medicines like insulin from inside the stomach Here was the challenge for bioengineers: find a way for patients to take drugs — like insulin or monoclonal antibodies used to treat cancers and other diseases — without injections. The medicines are made of molecules too big to be …
Read More »A pill to end drug injections
It can inject medicines like insulin from inside the stomach Here was the challenge for bioengineers: find a way for patients to take drugs — like insulin or monoclonal antibodies used to treat cancers and other diseases — without injections. The medicines are made of molecules too big to be …
Read More »Fish pass the mirror test
It is designed to show self-awareness in animals Scientists report that a fish can pass a standard test of recognising itself in a mirror and they raise a question about what that means. Does this decades-old test, designed to show self-awareness in animals, really do that? Since the mirror test …
Read More »Personal bias can widen gender gap in research funding: study
When reviewers focus on the applicant rather than the strength of the study, women scientists seem to lose out Women are less successful in receiving research funding than men if the selection process focusses on the scientist making the pitch rather than the science presented, according to new research released …
Read More »Equity mutual funds record slower inflows for the third consecutive month
Market volatility, global economic scenario impact fund flows into such schemes Mutual funds continued to see a slowdown in the inflows in equity schemes for the third consecutive month in January with the quantum of such flows falling to the lowest level in 10 months. According to the Association of …
Read More »GoM favours GST cut on houses under construction
A panel of State Ministers on Friday favoured lowering GST on under-construction residential properties to 5% , from the 12% currently. The Group of Ministers, (GoM) under Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, was set up last month to analyse tax rates and issues/challenges being faced by the real estate …
Read More »Hundreds of Indians confirmed as UK citizens under govt’s ‘Windrush Scheme’
Windrush Scheme: 455 Indians get citizenship More than 450 Indians have confirmed their British citizenship under the government’s ‘Windrush Scheme’, set up in the wake of an immigration scandal last year. In an update to Parliament on Thursday, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said at least 455 Indians confirmed their nationality …
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