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Why the Unified Pension Scheme is important and unimportant at the same time

Published on Aug 28, 2024 02:30 IST

How is the UPS different from the NPS? The key difference lies in the fact that it has a minimum guaranteed pension amount (half of the last drawn salary)

Adding life to the years of the nation’s elderly

Elderly voters sit outside a polling booth waiting for their turn to vote in the seventh and last round of polling in India's national election in Dharamshala, India, Saturday, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) (AP)

Published on Aug 27, 2024 15:38 IST

Why Xi’s anti-graft action is targeting minor parties

A giant screen shows news footage of Chinese President Xi Jinping attending the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing, China July 18, 2024. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang (REUTERS)

Published on Aug 27, 2024 15:38 IST

Ensuring Awas Yojana success in the big cities

Risks from political agendas have marred slum redevelopment (Photo by Sakib Ali /Hindustan Times)

Published on Aug 27, 2024 15:38 IST

UPS serves fiscal stability, and retirees’ interests

The UPS addresses the critical issues of both the OPS and NPS while ensuring long-term economic stability (Pixabay)

Published on Aug 26, 2024 15:30 IST

Solidarity as bedrock for women’s safety

Kolkata: Nurses take part in a protest over the alleged sexual assault and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor, in Kolkata, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) (PTI)

Published on Aug 26, 2024 15:29 IST

Making India truly NIPUN needs more ammunition

Teachers globally and in India resist scripted teaching plans, seeking flexibility and innovativeness. ( Praful Gangurde / HT Photo )

Published on Aug 26, 2024 15:29 IST

New hospitals should keep women's safety in mind while designing buildings

Kolkata: Doctors raise slogans during a protest rally over the recent alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.

Published on Aug 26, 2024 12:19 IST

A new study challenges the notion that video games are harmful to mental health

Should you go out and buy a game console and play video games to improve your mental health?

Published on Aug 26, 2024 11:02 IST

Social awakening is key to fighting heinous crimes

Kolkata: Doctors raise slogans during a protest rally over the recent alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.

Published on Aug 25, 2024 17:49 IST

Building a bioeconomy to boost green growth

The unsustainable pattern of material consumption, excessive resource utilisation, and waste generation have led to disasters such as forest fires, melting glaciers, and declining biodiversity across the globe.. (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 25, 2024 17:32 IST

The many meanings of Modi’s Ukraine visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during presentation of BHISHM cube to Ukraine, in Kyiv, Friday. (PTI Photo)

Published on Aug 25, 2024 17:30 IST

Seeing Silicon | The ones who found quarks

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Published on Aug 25, 2024 02:45 IST

Women@Work: The Malayalam film industry’s dirty, not-so-little, secret

Thiruvananthapuram: Mahila Congress activists stage a protest demanding a case against the perpetrators named in the Hema Committee report,

Published on Aug 25, 2024 02:45 IST

Just Like That | Natwar Singh’s wit and arrogance of spirit

Natwar Singh at the Parliament (11 Novermber 1986)

Published on Aug 25, 2024 01:30 IST

View: Kolkata doctor’s rape and murder—The silent scream of a city

Kolkata: Doctors raise slogans during a protest rally over the recent alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.

Updated on Aug 24, 2024 16:58 IST

Shroud of silence and fear over Kerala movie industry

Thiruvananthapuram: Mahila Congress activists stage a protest demanding a case against the perpetrators named in the Hema Committee report, Thiruvananthapuram, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

Published on Aug 24, 2024 15:40 IST

Nationalism versus sense of community

Saroj Devi, mother of athlete Neeraj Chopra . (PTI Photo) (PTI)

Updated on Aug 24, 2024 15:40 IST

The man who knew how to retrieve lost moments

Kunwar Natwar Singh in New Delhi India, on Friday, August 1, 2014.(Photo by Raj K Raj/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Published on Aug 24, 2024 15:40 IST

Economic opportunity key to inclusion of transgenders

Patna, July 14 (ANI): Transgenders participate in the Bihar Pride Parade organized by Bihar Dostana Safar, in Patna on Sunday. (ANI Photo) (Aftab Alam)

Published on Aug 24, 2024 15:40 IST

India Inc must play a role in mainstreaming disability

By increasing the employment of PwDs, organisations benefit from diverse perspectives and unique skill sets. REUTERS/Nacho Doce (REUTERS)

Published on Aug 23, 2024 15:39 IST

How should India persevere in this multi-crises world?

Residents hold placards during a counter demonstration against an anti-immigration protest called by far-right activists in the Walthamstow suburb of London on August 7, 2024. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP) (AFP)

Published on Aug 23, 2024 15:38 IST

A new footing in South Asia for India-Russia friendship

Moscow, Jul 10 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi embraces Russian President Vladimir Putin after receiving the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, Russia's highest civilian honour, at St Catherine's Hall, in Moscow on Tuesday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)

Updated on Aug 23, 2024 15:38 IST

Terms of Trade | What Poland tells us about ideology

A still from the 1991 Malayalam movie Sandesam.

Published on Aug 23, 2024 12:02 IST

The Art of a Good Unicorn | Edtech startups, is it time for your renaissance?

The EdTech space in India certainly had a certain exuberance and sheen to it during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Published on Aug 23, 2024 02:30 IST

How India can tackle its climate challenges

A drone view shows a landslide site after multiple landslides in the hills in Wayanad district, in the southern state of Kerala, India, July 31, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 22, 2024 15:57 IST

Team-builders better for business than tyrants

(FILES) Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella discusses Microsoft's platform for businesses to tap into the US software titan's computing platform in the Internet "cloud" at a Microsoft press briefing in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Glenn CHAPMAN / AFP) (AFP)

Published on Aug 22, 2024 15:57 IST

Eliminating TB by 2025 looks near impossible

A doctor checks the chest X-ray of a patient in the tuberculosis (TB) department of the government-run Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad on October 30, 2019. (Photo by NOAH SEELAM / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Aug 22, 2024 15:57 IST

WTO regulation is key to sustainable marine fishing

Kochi: Fishermen cast their nets in the Arabian sea as they look for a catch, at the Kochi coast, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI08_06_2024_000423B) (PTI)

Published on Aug 21, 2024 15:35 IST

Why Israel versus Iran is a lose-lose situation

FILE - In this photo taken and released by the semiofficial Fars News Agency, a Noor missile is launched from the coast to the sea during Iranian naval maneuvers in the Oman Sea, near the port town of Bandar Jask, Iran on May 11, 2010. (Hossein Zohrevand/Fars News Agency, File) (AP)

Published on Aug 21, 2024 15:35 IST

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