Private wealth creators are solely responsible for India's banking stress; increasingly fleeing India with their wealth and bank loans, and those making huge profits are doing so by cutting jobs and wages

For people to benefit, the budget needs overhauling to create jobs; revive small businesses; address poverty and health and education deprivations. Pursuing the existing paradigm of growth may push GDP and stock markets up without improving the living standards of the vast majority

Our finding that smokers are less likely to be seropositive is the first report from the general population and part of growing evidence that despite COVID-19 being a respiratory disease, smoking may be protective, CSIR said

Most successful, industrialised and fast-growing Asian economies like Japan, South Korea, China, and Vietnam followed this model, as did Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Why can't India?

Around 2,360 participants have been trained during the national-level training. The state-level training has been completed in all states/UTs and 7,000 district level trainees got hands-on experience on vaccine handling and distribution

Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers' well-being be achieved without land reforms?

RBI panel's proposal to allow big corporates/industrial houses to own and run banks and NBFCs is contrary to RBI's own earlier stand, economic logic and historical evidence of multiple economic crises caused by reckless private financial sector players

While India is firmly focused on AatmaNirbhar Bharat for a V-shaped recovery, its key fiscal numbers show the economy is slipping with falling capital expenditure, muted consumption and higher precautionary savings

In its latest World Economic Outlook report, IMF estimated India's economy to contract 10.3 per cent in 2020, pushing it below Bangladesh in terms of per capita GDP

Profit-driven enterprises are ill-suited to protect the health and life of a vast majority of people, as the US and Indian governments experience, but do precious little, thereby failing in their primary duty

Findings of several global studies reflect the fragile nature of existing policies and programmes aimed at eliminating poverty and hunger and call for rethinking economics to ensure sustainable and enduring outcomes

Stock market behaviour shows that the concept of rational and well-informed investors participating in an efficient and self-correcting market which always gets the stock prices right is deeply flawed

This is first of a two-part series that highlights how growth is not working for the majority and wealth and income are increasingly concentrating at the very top 1% and 0.1%, at the cost of the rest

Coronavirus Lockdown 4.0 India Live Updates: Maharashtra's COVID-19 cases breached 39,000 mark after 2,250 more patients were reported positive of the deadly virus in last 24 hours. The death toll in the state rose to 1,390 after 65 more fatalities were reported since Tuesday

Coronavirus Highlights: Maharashtra on Saturday reported 1,606 new cases and 67 deaths, taking state's tally to 30,706. Meanwhile, Mumbai's total cases reached 18,555 and 696 deaths

Coronavirus in India live updates: PM CARES Fund Trust, set up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tackle distress situations such as that posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, has reportedly allocated Rs 3,100 crore for fight against coronavirus

In the post-industrial democratic era, they have benefited immensely from the public provisioning of health and education that produces quality labour, infrastructure, natural resources, tax incentives, loan write offs (NPAs), bailouts, stimulus packages, and much more. Yet increasingly they use tax havens, shell companies and other tools to evade and avoid paying back

Not just in health emergencies, even in normal times, India needs a public healthcare system that can ensure that \"catastrophic\" healthcare expenditure does not routinely drive six crore Indians into poverty every year

Decades of low public investment has denied a large population access to quality healthcare. High out-of-pocket costs are driving millions into debt and poverty every year. Here is a chance to redesign the system keeping both affordability and quality in mind

Currently, the government has only established 62 testing facilities for COVID-19. Uttar Pradesh, which as the highest population of any state in India only has three test centers. According to ICMR, each of these COVID-19 facilities is serving around 77 million people in UP