NEW DELHI: Childcare and household chores keep around 69% women out of the labour force in India’s top 46 cities with million-plus population, highlighting the gender-bias in nature of care work even among the more affluent areas of the country, a new National Statistics Office survey has shown.The survey on labour market indicators for the…
Every school day, seven-year-old Vivien Fitzgerald heads to school on a remote cattle station. In between mustering, branding, fencing, water-point checking, weed management and housework, her mother or father joins her as her very own “home tutor”. But parents are now doing it without the information distance education families have used for decades to support…
Opposition staged walkout (ANI) NEW DELHI: A symbolic walkout by several Opposition parties marked the all-party meeting ahead of the Monsoon Session on Sunday after Lok Sabha Speaker approved separate seating for 20 rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs who have formed the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI).The Opposition leaders later rejoined the meeting, saying…
NEW DELHI: In a likely breakthrough in govt’s attempts to muster a two-thirds majority in Parliament to pass the Constitution amendment bill to increase seats in Lok Sabha and implement women’s reservation law from 2029, DMK, which has 22 members in Lok Sabha, said it is open to negotiation if govt can guarantee that the…
Sonu Kumar Gupta from Gopalganj died after two UAE-linked tankers came under a missile attack in the Strait of Hormuz Patna: A marine engineer from Bihar’s Gopalganj district was killed after two UAE-linked tankers came under a missile attack near the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE ministry of defence confirmed.Sonu Kumar Gupta, a resident of…
An artificial intelligence (AI) company will become Tasmania’s biggest power user if its ambitions to establish three “AI factories” in the state come to fruition. Singapore-based Firmus Technologies is building an AI factory in the Launceston suburb of St Leonards, which is expected to be operational early next year. Firmus has said the factory will…
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Inside his farmhouse, nestled off a dirt road in Kent County, N.B., 80-year-old Leslie Cail sat listening to the distant chant…
The post included footage of a man receiving treatment in a hospital, with the claim that he had suffered pellet injuries during the protest. NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Tuesday dismissed allegations by the CJP’s chief spokesperson that security personnel used pellet guns against protesters during the “Chalo Sansad” march, calling the claim “completely false…
A man has died after he was attacked by his dog on his property in north-west NSW. Emergency services responded to reports of a dog attack at a property on Timor Road in Coonabaraban at about 10am on Sunday. Orana Mid Western Police District officers arrived and found a 55-year-old man suffering from serious injuries….
File photo of protest at Fresh Cut poultry waste rendering plant in Thamarassery Kozhikode: Residents are set to resume protests against Fresh Cut Organics Pvt Ltd at Kattippara panchayat in Thamarassery. The decision comes after the high court extended an interim stay on a closure notice handed to the firm by Kerala State Pollution Control…