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Majority Of Judges Are Upper Castes
Rediff.com13 Feb 2023

The law ministry said 78 per cent of high court judges appointed between 2018 and 2022...

iPhone's price markup remains way below inflation rate
Rediff.com17 Nov 2022

The price of the base model of the iPhone increased 25 per cent between 2017 and 2022,...

14 High Courts Register Decline In Pending PILs
Rediff.com13 Oct 2022

The disposal rate of PILs across 23 high courts was available was 83.7 per cent until...

Sign of rising rural distress: MGNREGS demand up in poorest states
Rediff.com6 Oct 2022

India's post-pandemic recovery appears to be shaping up like the letter K, widening the...

5 states bag lion's share in formal jobs post Covid
Rediff.com4 Oct 2022

In December 2020, as economists debated the shape the global economic recovery might...

Indian States have 25 Public Holidays!
Rediff.com5 Sep 2022

The number of public holidays varies from 14 in Delhi to 34 in Odisha.

Drone Sales Increase To Rs 3.19 Bn
Rediff.com22 Aug 2022

In absolute numbers, India had only 211 start-ups compared to 970 in the US.

Only 14.4 Judges Per Million Population
Rediff.com2 Aug 2022

The number of undertrials is at a historic high and comes at a time when vacancies in...

500% Rise In Section 153A Zubair Was Booked Under
Rediff.com22 Jul 2022

Cases filed under Section 153A had one of the lowest conviction rates.

Entry-level jobs no more easy to come by in formal sector
Rediff.com11 Jul 2022

It is a trend that economists and researchers say might continue. The data shows the...

Only 3% Indians Have Received Booster Dose
Rediff.com4 Jul 2022

Bihar, Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana and West Bengal accounted for 70 per cent of the...

Why govt's skill development initiative still struggles with placements?
Rediff.com24 Jun 2022

Even as the government seeks to recruit one million people in 18 months, it is...

ED's scope of probe under PMLA increased 2.5 times in six years
Rediff.com29 Apr 2022

Recently, Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached assets worth Rs 757.8 crore of Amway...

No electrifying effect from government's EV push
Rediff.com27 Apr 2022

State governments need to focus on building charging infrastructure to realise the goal...

BharatNet plan to set up rural fibre networks slowed down in pandemic
Rediff.com22 Apr 2022

It has been over two decades since the cabinet cleared the BharatNet project, earlier...

Re-elected BJP legislators show steepest climb in income
Rediff.com28 Mar 2022

Re-elected MLAs from the ruling party added more wealth in the last five years than...

2015 to 2018: Number of NRIs jumped 18%
Rediff.com23 Mar 2022

Last year, in a reply to a question in Lok Sabha, the government informed Parliament...

Mobile Internet User Growth Slowed Down In 2021
Rediff.com23 Mar 2022

By the end of December 2021, India had 389 million users who did not have access to...

How close were the 5-state election results really?
Rediff.com11 Mar 2022

An analysis of seats across the five states shows that the race was won on tighter...

Russia accounts for most of India's arms imports
Rediff.com26 Feb 2022

49.4 per cent of India's arms imports between 2016 and 2020 were from Russia.