The country's financial hub, which overshot the capital in per capita income this year, cannot boast of any achievement where its women are concerned. Mumbai seems to prefer its men to women in all age categories, according to the provisional Census 2011 figures released on Friday. Mumbai's per capita income is currently poised at a healthy Rs 1.25 lakh, but it has emerged as the worst performer in Maharashtra in terms...

The population of India’s commercial capital is growing very slowly in the suburbs while it is shrinking in the old city, the preliminary census data on Maharashtra released on Friday shows. Meanwhile, the population of adjoining Thane district has grown explosively at 35.9% between 2001 and 2011, as expensive real estate in the city has pushed people to satellite towns such as Kalyan and Vashi in this district. The shift in people...

The country's financial hub, which overshot the capital in per capita income this year, cannot boast of any achievement where its women are concerned. Mumbai seems to prefer its men to women in all age categories, according to the provisional Census 2011 figures released on Friday. Mumbai's per capita income is currently poised at a healthy Rs 1.25 lakh, but it has emerged as the worst performer in Maharashtra in terms...

Aruna Roy, a Magsaysay award winner former bureaucrat, was closely involved in the drafting of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. As a member of the UPA's National Advisory Council (NAC), among other things, she has been conveying to the government the views of civil society on the proposed changes in the transparency act. On the sidelines of 3rd national convention of National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, held...

Even as the Left Front government in Bengal have pledged itself to champion the cause of labourers in the country, the number of companies in the state who deny minimum wages to its workers has increased manifold in the last few years. In 2006, 61 companies were fined for denying minimum wages to its workers which came down to 42 in 2007. But again in 2008 the number increased to 223...