Coupled with stagnant incomes, more urban consumers feel pessimistic about the overall economic situation of the country | Photo Credit: MANSI THAPLIYAL This March, while a significant share of urban consumers remained optimistic about job opportunities, many continued to be pessimistic about income levels. This suggests that although jobs are available in urban areas, income … Read more
People take part in a rally against the Israeli government in Tel Aviv, Israel. | Photo Credit: Reuters When Israel pushed through its contentious Budget last month, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, “This is a war budget and, God willing, it will also be the victory budget.” However, widely cited surveys suggest that most Israelis … Read more
Mystery resolved: Kalvi Varu Street connects the two wharves as can be seen in any city map. As late as 1962, the government sanctioned funds for strengthening of the wharves here. At last, after years, I can sleep well at nights. Who, or what, was Kalvi Varu had been one of those unresolved mysteries thus … Read more
The Karnataka Cabinet, on April 11, cleared the much-awaited Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2024, which is now expected to be introduced as an Ordinance. If passed, this would make Karnataka the second State in the country to introduce legislation for the welfare of platform-based gig workers after Rajasthan. Why legislation? Reports … Read more
The mantis shrimp is a colourful, 10-cm-long resident of the ocean whose appearance belies its reputation as one of the most fearsome predators on the planet. These unassuming crustaceans use a hammer-shaped appendage called the dactyl club to strike their prey at a blistering 23 m/s (about 50-times faster than the blink of an eye), … Read more
Vital point: The Moore Market Complex (MMC) station, the nerve centre of suburban train operation on the western and northern routes, is teeming with thousands of commuters. Those alighting here run to board MTC buses or trudge along the Central square to get into suburban trains at the MRTS Park station or Metro Rail. | … Read more
Southern Railway is installing escalators at the three platforms in Avadi railway station. For N. Harish, a regular commuter at the railway station, everyday he has to take a train from Avadi station is a source of annoyance. Despite the presence of escalators in the railway station, not installing access routes from both sides of the railway … Read more
New Delhi, April 15: Sikkim has overwhelmingly voted for the abolition of the institution of Chogyal and for full statehood within the Indian Union. The voting took place in a referendum throughout the Himalayan State yesterday. Within minutes of the declaration of the result of referendum, the Chief Minister, Kazi Lhondup Dorji, conveyed it to … Read more
This news might not have aggressively grabbed the headlines when it was released, but the publication of the preliminary findings of the GenomeIndia report marks significant progress in possessing genetic information specific to the Indian population. A massive project that has been several years in the making, and much anticipated, the results are likely to … Read more
London, April 15: Two hundred boy-messengers of the Eastern Telegraph Company, London, have struck work on the ground that their employment is in the nature of a blind alley occupation and demand guarantees of promotion on increase to a maximum wage of 29s. 10d. per week by 8s. The strikers have refused to hand in … Read more