Rural report card: Marital status
Fishing for a life and livelihood in Loktak
Fisherfolk dwelling on this unique Manipur lake face many challenges, including a dwindling catch
Towering walls do not come in the way of soaring ambitions
How the open jail system in Himachal Pradesh punishes — and empowers those serving terms
Taking the internet to the last mile
A rural initiative to create net savvy young women entrepreneurs has taken root
Can Small Finance Banks make it big?
After reeling under the demonetisation shock, loan growth and asset quality are slowly returning to normalcy.
A safe avenue with attractive rates
Fincare Small Finance Bank offers 9% for 24-36-month deposits
Indices make a strong comeback
But the Sensex and the Nifty may face key resistance ahead
Good returns with moderate risk
The fund has juggled the maturity profile and the yields of its portfolio well
Leprosy 2.0
India has more than half the world’s leprosy cases. After claims that it was “eliminated” in 2005, the disease ...
A little help from friends
On the eve of the 47th anniversary of the birth of Bangladesh, an Indian citizen recalls how he crossed the ...
Why a Best Books list is just humbug
The year-end reckoner isn’t all that it’s trumped up to be
Walking down the revolutionary road
Cuba is a land of contradictions, where plush hotels and gleaming vintage cars coexist with dilapidated ...
The cheese has moved
For the business of advertising, 2018 was a year of reconciliation with a ‘digital first’ world order
IBM seeds tech to help farmers weather challenges
Through The Weather Company, Big Blue is helping farmers manage crops
Taming the dark forces
Will issuing disclaimers in political advertising, as Facebook is mandating, make any difference?
Nuggets: Tech trends 2019
Swedish telco Ericsson has just released its consumer trends for 2019 and it forecasts that mood predictive ...
You just can’t afford to be sick
Healthcare in India is unaffordable for most people. However, the wheels of health financing are beginning to ...
Are Ayushman Bharat rates out of sync?
Indu Bhushan (57) is at the helm of what is pegged as the world’s largest government-funded health scheme — ...
Crowdfunding as a saviour
In March 2015, when she was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer, Bengaluru-based Priya Joseph* (name ...
‘Flawed model’
From a conversation with Amit Sengupta:Critical of an insurance-based model, the late Amit Sengupta from Jan ...