Raghuram Rajan, the economist who predicted the 2008 financial crisis in his 2005 paper 'Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?' has called the present slowdown in the Indian economy 'very worrisome'. The former RBI governor’s reaction comes after the world agencies revised India’s growth rate, RBI slashed the repo rate read more

Page 3 of The Indian Express, dated August 20, carried an advertisement by Northern India Textile Mills Association (NITMA). It was titled ‘Indian Spinning Industry Facing Biggest Crisis, Resulting in Huge Job Losses’. This newspaper advertisement spoke about the job crisis faced by the industry, which is otherwise the biggest employer read more

In a first, a group of girls at Valayanchirangara Government Lower Primary School, in Kerala have now started wearing knee-length shorts and not skirts, after their school introduced a unisex uniform this academic year. The 104-year-old school changed all norms and experimented by introducing gender-neutral uniforms for the pre-primary students last read more

Iceland has lost its first glacier due to climate change. The island nation bid farewell to one of the iconic glaciers on August 18. Researchers, leaders, and renowned activists joined hands and conducted an official funeral ceremony for the Okjökull glacier in western Iceland. Among the 100 people who walked up read more