Covid-19 pandemic

India to reduce spending on food and fertilizer subsidies by $17 billion

Representative Image NEW DELHI: India plans to reduce spending on food and fertilizer subsidies to ₹3.7 trillion in the fiscal…

2 years ago

India needs to increase its gross enrollment ratio: Union Education Minister

Representative Image NEW DELHI: India Education Summit 2022 was organised on April 6th and 7th, in New Delhi. The two-day…

3 years ago

FMCG sector faced consumption slowdown in Indian urban markets in 2021: Report

Representative Image NEW DELHI: Nielsen, a Data analytics firm, said that the Indian FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) industry witnessed a…

3 years ago

COVID-19 remains top most worry of urban Indians: Survey

Representative Image NEW DELHI: Ipsos released its monthly survey on ‘What worries the world’ on February 25. Even as India…

3 years ago

Urban India shifts focus to education, retirement planning: Survey

Representative Image NEW DELHI: Fourth edition of the India Protection Quotient Survey (IPQ) was recently released by Max Life Insurance…

3 years ago

Sustainable financing scheme necessary for future pandemics: G20

Representative Image JAKARTA: Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of G20 nations met for a two-day meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia.…

3 years ago

Developing nations at risk of financial fragility: World Bank

Representative Image NEW DELHI: The World Bank released ‘World Development Report 2022’ on February 15. The report said that the…

3 years ago

Need to protect workers’ health while working from home: WHO & ILO

Representative Image NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation and the International Labour Organisation have called for measures to be put…

3 years ago

Global COVID-19 response generating masses of waste: WHO

Representative Image NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) released a report stating that the amount of waste generated by…

3 years ago

Annual income of Indian poor households reduced by 53%

Representative Image NEW DELHI: In an unusual pattern since economic liberalisation, the yearly income of the lowest 20 per cent…

3 years ago