By Asgar Qadri Varanasi: Over the last two decades luxury brands have eyed India’s fast-moving economy, booming middle class and youthful population, already among the world’s largest, hoping they had discovered their next big market. But it wasn’t to be. Along with India’s protectionist policies (talks with the European UnionContinue Reading

Tokyo: Asia’s largest economies dropped in the World Economic Forum’s latest gender equality ranking, announced on Thursday, with India falling 21 places to 108th. The new Global Gender Gap Index shows that while the region has become a major driver of the global economy, most countries still lag behind when itContinue Reading

Swagata Yadavar With more than a fifth of its children wasted — low weight for height — India ranks 100 among 119 countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI), down three places from 97 last year. Only in three other countries — Djibouti, Sri Lanka and South Sudan —Continue Reading