Jayalalithaa's legacy: Industrial, social, crime rankings among India's best
Rediff.com7 Dec 2016

Tamil Nadu now has India's lowest fertility rate - lower than Australia, Finland and...

Tamil Nadu, Kerala have most women entrepreneurs, and high female literacy
Rediff.com5 Oct 2016

India was ranked 70th of 77 countries in the Female Entrepreneurship Index 2015...

Why education does not interest Delhi's child workers
Rediff.com4 Jul 2015

As many as 82 per cent of child workers in the national capital said that given an...

Swachch Bharat? Indian villagers still ignore water, sanitation, streetlights
Rediff.com25 Jun 2015

Money allocated for rural India has increased, but expenditure of panchayats is not...

An anti-poverty guide for Modi
Rediff.com25 May 2015

A programme that endeavours to graduate the poorest people could have seminal...

India's SEZ failures a cautionary tale for Land Acquisition Bill
Rediff.com20 May 2015

No more than 62% of farmland acquired for Special Economic Zones has been used for its...

Jobs for women: Why India does worse than Somalia
Rediff.com10 Mar 2015

Reasons include include dropping out of education, raising children and family pressure