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India’s next delimitation exercise will occur in circumstances fundamentally different from those prevailing at the time of the last interstate seat allocation based on the 1971 Census. The ...

It presents a comprehensive labour market profile of the country’s 46 largest urban agglomerations. Beyond conventional labour market indicators, the report sheds light on cities’ industrial ...

Multi­lateral institutions and national governments now increasingly promote DPI as a means to expand state capacity, enhance welfare delivery, strengthen service coordination, and catalyse digital ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely believed that economic growth, policy reforms, and institutional development would gradually integrate the informal economy into the formal sector. This ...

Awareness campaigns have highlighted the nutritional advantages of millets—their high fibre, protein, vitamin, and mineral content, gluten- free nature, and favourable amino acid profile—thereby ...

As a result, platform-based companies, such as Uber, Ola, and Zomato, have been able to build and scale their operations globally without owning any physical assets. India’s large existing informal ...

Sociology has grown into an established discipline in recent years. The current period allows sociologists to step back and examine the field from all perspectives, seeking to uncover its principles, ...

Over the last five years in India, extreme weather events (EWEs)like intense floods, heatwaves, landslides, droughts, and cyclones have increased, impacting population health (Krishnan 2025). This ...

A bipartisan group of US senators announces a bill that proposes 100% tariffs on imports from countries that buy oil and uranium from Russia. India announces the second iteration of the India ...

G V Prakash (music composer of Parasakthi) performed “Thiruvaasagam,” a Tamil pride composition. The irony isn’t just stark; it is also an admission of the film’s political limits. This contradiction ...

Under the IT Act, gifts from “relatives” are exempt from income tax in the hands of the person receiving this gift. For the purposes of Section 56(2), the term “relative” is specifically defined ...