A heavy sell-off was witnessed on Monday as the market opened with benchmark indices crashing over 5 per cent in early trade.
China's move to raise the retirement age, the first adjustment since the 1950s, is a critical response to an escalating demographic and economic crisis.
With 2024 bringing another decline in smartphone sales in the US, a new report on Monday showed that it is expected to grow only 3 per cent by 2028 in the country.
India’s economic trajectory, as outlined by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, paints a picture of resilience and potential amidst global uncertainties.
Initially wrapped in PPE kits during the peak of the pandemic, these bodies have now decomposed, leaving only bones behind, their identities lost amidst administrative neglect and bureaucratic indifference.
Overall, Unicef estimates that 640 million girls and women living today were married off before they turned 18. Post the Covid-19 pandemic, when poor families were driven to destitution, young girls were married off by many families to reduce their burdens. Indeed, poverty has been identified as a major factor responsible for such marriages, while the other is the impact of climate change.
Certain methods used by Western economies during the Covid-19 pandemic caused global economic stress as an after-effect, said Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday.
Some 12 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa missed out entirely or partially on routine immunisation from 2019 to 2021, the United Nations Children's Fund, or Unicef, has disclosed.
The United States of America has the world’s largest economy, most powerful military, and hosts a large proportion of globally top-ranked universities. But the country’s life expectancy, maternal mortality, food insecurity, and poverty numbers do not resemble those of peer nations.
The UN Human Rights chief, Volker Turk, has expressed concern at the trial and the manner in which the two activists were given stiff jail terms. Describing the trial as being “at variance with international human rights standards”, Mr Turk said
