Human Behavior

Every year on Dec 20, people celebrate International Human Solidarity Day. According to the UN Millennium Declaration, solidarity is a fundamental value of 21st-century international relations

Understanding our world, behaviours, and impact on our surroundings is greatly aided by anthropology, the study of human societies and cultures' genesis and evolution

The date January 2 was picked on the grounds that it denotes the end of the holiday season beginning from Christmas to New Year and permits introverts to take a collective full breath

The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of the building for the Faculty of Technology, Computer Centre and Academic Block, to be built in the North Campus of the University

After a nine-hour grilling of Venugopal Iyer, a CA, a close aide of Sivasankar, the ED has reportedly made headway with the CA stating he had just followed the former top bureaucrat's instructions.

Woolworths' biggest competitor, Coles, painted a similar picture in their end-of-year results

Women on average have more sex partners than men in 11 states and UTs but the percentage of men who had sexual intercourse with someone who was neither their spouse or lived with stood at 4 per cent, much higher than that of women at 0.5 per cent, according to the NFHS data. The National Family Health Survey which was conducted among 1.1 lakh women and 1 lakh men showed that the number of sex partners on average for women was higher than men in many states and Union territories. These states and UTs are Rajasthan, Haryana, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu. Rajasthan had the highest number of women who had on an average 3.1 sex partners as against the 1.8 for men. But the percentage of men who had sexual intercourse with someone who was neither their spouse or live-in partner, in the 12 months preceding the survey, stood at 4 per cent. For women, the number stood at 0.5 per cent. The National Family Health

It was the banking industry that pioneered the concept of lifestage marketing

With the 'old year' approach, perhaps you can sidestep the inevitable challenges that come with traditional New Year's resolutions and achieve lasting, positive changes

Two Netflix shows, Atypical and The Bold Type, show that human bodies are unpredictable. What they require is not self-hatred but tenderness

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Monday

Book review of Change: How to make big things happen

'Their agenda is always to figure out the social impact of businesses like mine', says the author

The prediction is that once we achieve human standards, that machine will become as close to a god

'Waiter's crime was one of impropriety', says the author