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Sabarimala Temple opening: Police detain protesters
Muzaffarpur shelter home: Enforcement Directorate registers money laundering case
Devotees throng pandals, temples on Durga Ashtami
Anna Burns wins 50th Man Booker Prize for ‘Milkman’
Pakistan hangs 6-year-old Zainab’s killer
US strike in Somalia killed 60 militants, Pentagon says
Windies coach banned for first 2 ODIs for ICC code breach
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passes away
Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Kolkata during Durga puja cancelled
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Prashant Kishor appointed National Vice-President of JDU
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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle expecting their first baby
Markets open high on Wednesday
ICPA seeks ‘one rank one pay’ for AI pilots
Sensex opens 140 points up, Nifty at 11,550
NDTV, Airtel launch live channel
Sensex rises 130 points, Nifty settles above 10,450-mark
Hyundai’s Kona EV ready to hit the road
Sugar mills worry over surplus, talk of ‘industry collapse’
Japanese experts to assist Indian architects develop bullet train stations
Give answers on Rafale instead of whataboutery, Congress tells BJP
Tax raid on media house attack on free press: Amnesty
Wrestlers Bajrang, Sakshi to lead Indian challenge at World C’ships
Saina survives, Sindhu ousted from Denmark Open
Will retire when no more emotions are involved, says Gambhir
Modric never thought Zidane, Ronaldo would leave Real
Climate change will worsen disparities, may increase support for Naxals: Report
Higher food prices jack up India’s September wholesale inflation
Gujarat Ministers go out with invites for tallest Sardar statue unveiling
Gurugram Judge’s wife dead, son critical, gunman arrested
An Indian-founded organisation rehabilitates Syrian refugees in Germany
Royal wedding: Princess Eugenie ties the knot
Japanese designer revives 1960s retro fashion on LMIFW runway
Internet obsession among adolescents leading to mental disorder: Experts
Nehru should be understood in the context of his times, not ours
Zika virus cases reach 72 in Jaipur
Overdose of Vitamin A may up bone fracture risk
29 test positive for Zika virus in Rajasthan
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Pink Line’s Trilokpuri-Shiv Vihar section to open
Air India Express’ pilots’ decision to continue the flight dubious: Experts
Railways to use ‘green’ composite sleepers
Kolkata tramcar reinvents itself to offer a culinary ride
Bengaluru, Oct 16 : As the effects of climate change on livelihoods become more pronounced, especially for people involved in...
As Europe continues to grapple with the problem of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria, an organisation founded by an Indian is helping a small town in Germany...
New Delhi/Mumbai, Oct 13 : Even as an official investigation into the Air India Express’ Trichy take-off incident has commenced, the aviation fraternity has cited the...
New Delhi, Oct 12 : Unemployment and corruption are top issues that worry Indians the most even as they believe that the country was headed in...
"Out of 29 states, only 12 states have filled all posts of Chief Information Commissioners and Information Commissioners and there is no vacancy," the TII said...
The clearest expression of her independence came in April over the question of whether the administration would impose new sanctions on Russia in response to a...
"The project is situated in the protected area," the document states and asks the forest, PWD, SSB and tiger reserve officials in Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich,...
Shah's assertions have been backed by Gen Padmanabhan to whom the After Action Report on the army's action to quell the riots, was submitted by Shah...
In the week gone by, the rupee touched a fresh low of over 74 to a US dollar in the spot market. It settled at a...
The government’s former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), Arvind Subramanian, will open up about his tenure, which saw the controversial demonetisation of high-value currency notes and the...
The Army put an end to the mayhem during the 2002 Gujarat riots within 48 hours (March 4) by “resolute, firm and fair action”, says retired...
New Delhi, Oct 4 : Allaying fears of more than 25,000 homebuyers, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) Chairperson M.S. Sahoo has said all voting...
New Delhi, Oct 4 : With the Indian rupee under pressure for the past few months and declining to its lowest-ever levels, real estate players expect...
New Delhi, Oct 2 : To highlight the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in today’s world on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary, Indian missions abroad...
Born over four centuries and 300 kilometres apart, a single song fused the spirits of Narsinh Mehta and Mohandas Gandhi. By the time Gandhi was born...
Kolkata, Oct 1 (Mongabay/IANS) Termites are often a nightmare in human habitats, devouring wooden structures and ravaging crops and trees. But within their own homes, some...
A 65 per cent shortfall in subsidies is affecting Maharashtra’s push to ensure a toilet in every urban household under the Swachh Bharat Mission, the nationwide...
Murshidabad (West Bengal), Sep 30 : Walking home from school in a small town in West Bengal, a nine-year-old boy saw some of his friends work...
It "calls on the Indian authorities to protect its writers, journalists and all others exercising their right to free expression" and to "bring its legislation in...
New Delhi, Sep 28 : Reporting from the frontlines of the war against polio and drawing on detailed interviews with key players, Thomas Abraham has chronicled...
New Delhi, Sep 28 : Three-time silver medallist at the Para Asian Games, Sandeep Singh Maan, is aiming for another top-notch show at the upcoming edition...
Located in the hilly and forested terrains of Jhumra Pahar, Sarju village in Garu Tehsil of this district was, till a few years ago, known as...
The industry cannot sustain heavy losses for long and expects positive action from the government -- replacing the existing 18 per cent GST with a five...
Amid a political storm over the publication of the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is rooting for a...
Going to the extent of suggesting that children should be allowed to mess with the cooking and connect emotionally with the food they eat, well-known Chef...
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) The Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation on Wednesday said that 9,034 children were trafficked in the year 2016 alone, a dramatic rise...
Even as Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) supremo Mayawati — sworn enemies till not long ago — are making all...
Regulation has an unfortunate, negative connotation to it. It brings to mind an authoritarian image with regards to the government. That is definitely not how it...
The need for infrastructure creation in India is now being widely debated and analysed. It would be prudent to try and better understand how infrastructure creation...
Within 48 hours after former French President Francois Hollande’s remarks re-ignited the allegations of crony capitalism over the Rafale deal, Modi government has remained on the...
New Delhi, Sep 20 : In a first, the government on Thursday came out with a National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO), containing a list of...
The Saab Gripen will be contesting with the likes of the Russian MiG 35, Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon, Boeing F/A 18 and Lockheed Martin F-16 for...
At its best, speeches at the recently concluded World Hindu Congress echoed the soaring spiritual ideals evoked by Swami Vivekananda in Chicago 125 years ago. Even...
New Delhi, Sep 18 : She remembers the time when some of her seniors gave statements that she can’t play badminton but that made Jwala Gutta...
Over the last two days, nearly all sitting MLAs as well as party state President Vinay Tendulkar, a favourite of Parrikar, have been lobbying with Ram...
The Byzantine and Roman sites of Ebla and Idlib, in northwest Syria, may well be reduced to dust if an explosion occurs on a scale many...
These days there is little time to celebrate or brood after a cricket series. After a long tour of England, some key India players, who play...
Bharatiya Janata Party : President Amit Shah’s boast at the national executive meeting about the party ruling for 50 years may have been in keeping with...
Kolkata, Sep 14 : Media professionals must rely on varied sources to prevent circulation of wrong information, a US digital disinformation expert said on Friday. “I...
New Delhi, Sep 12 : Assembly elections will not be held in Telangana along with those in four states this year-end if the preparedness of the...
San Francisco, Sep 12 : The planet is sending a clear message — to act and that too within a short time-frame or lose the ability...
Two months ago, all 12 boys and the coach of a Thai football team were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand for...
Ten years ago, on September 15, 2008, the dream run of the world economy came undone with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, revealing a rotten scaffolding...
Lucknow, Sep 11 : Suicides, between May and September, by two of its bright officers — one with the anti-terror squad (ATS) and the other posted...
New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Historian Ramachandra Guha, who has penned a monumental 1,100-page biography of Mahatma Gandhi, says that he finds double standards in the...
Vadakara (Kerala), Sep 9 : When 23-year-old Majiziya Bhanu took to the stage to compete in the women’s segment of the Mr Kerala competition in Kochi...
More than the social impact of the Supreme Court’s judgment on gay rights, what will be of concern to the ruling party at the Centre is...
Sibal, a well-known lawyer, says that on this ground incriminating material found in the Birla and Sahara diaries are just not investigated because the agencies are...
Hyderabad, Sep 7 : Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao, better known as KCR, is known for taking decisions which surprise his political opponents but the dissolution of Telangana...
Last month’s occurrence of 70 earthquakes in just 48 hours along the “Pacific Ring of Fire” sparked fears that a big temblor is on the way...
Vaginal Birth After Cesarean, commonly termed as VBAC, can be adopted by any mother for her second or third birth if she wishes to avoid the...
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Former Australia batsman Dean Jones on Saturday welcomed the BCCI’s decision to rest regular skipper Virat Kohli for the upcoming Asia...
Kolkata, Aug 29 : Jalpaiguri town in North Bengal is ecstatic over its resident Swapna Barman, daughter of a van rickshaw puller, becoming the first Indian...
Las Vegas, Aug 29 : Taliban’s efforts to keep girls away from education in Pakistan was defeated by their very action of shooting her, says Malala...
Hanoi, Aug 28 : Pointing out that the seas around India have nurtured its links of commerce and culture with its extended neighbourhood over millenia, Indian...
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), Aug 27 (IANS) This is one war widow of Ahmednagar cast in the mould of her husband Kondaji Lakshman Malunjkar, who was killed in...
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapyee was not in favour of advancing the Lok Sabha election in 2004 as he feared...
Washington, Aug 26 (IANS) Despite the increased intrusion of social media in our lives, love for emails remains strong with 60 per cent people checking their...
Chhota Shakeel's 18-year-son Mubashir Shaikh -- his third and youngest child -- created a stir by recently becoming a "Hafiz-e-Quran" or one who has memorized the...
With heavy rains and floods devastating Karnataka’s Kodagu district, the country’s largest coffee-growing region is staring at heavy losses as many of its plantations are in...
Rahul Gandhi has had another of his escape-velocity-of-Jupiter moments. His reference to the massive gravitational force of the solar system’s largest planet was in the context...
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) In a critical observation on Indian Railways’ accounting system, a parliamentary committee has pulled up the national transporter for not following...
National security is not just about the military, it also concerns governance and the tendency to politicise the actions of the armed forces should be “eschewed...
The media is abuzz these days with horrendous stories of child sexual abuse, the most recent incidents being of abuse in shelter homes in Bihar and...
Jodhpur, Aug 14 : At a time when the world is battling one of its biggest refugee crises, India has its own share of the problem...
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) If you are in Kerala and are affected by the devastating floods, using Twitter may help you steer clear of fake...
NEW DELHI: From failing to meet the Army’s UAVs requirements to defective and life threatening parachutes and critical quality problems in the Pinaka rocket systems, the...
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that resurgence of “nativism and protectionism in the West is a disturbing trend”...
August 6 is etched in an apocalyptic manner on the global consciousness given the nuclear enormity that engulfed the unsuspecting residents of Japan’s Hiroshima on that...
Ever since the former saffron stalwart, Arun Shourie, created a stir in the 1980s with his articles on illegal immigrants in Assam comprising Bangladeshi Muslims, the...
Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) With consumers rampantly facing major data breaches due to increased online transaction — whether for work, leisure or play — a new...
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Nearly 600 of Delhi’s government schools are running headless — some of them for the past six years — according to...
New Delhi, July 30 : Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman R.S. Sharma’s open Aadhaar challenge to critics and hackers is nothing but a case...
As per the data provided by the minister, compiled by IMRB, the number of out of school children came down from 134.6 lakh in 2005 to...
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Teesta Barrage, Indira Sagar Poolavaram and Gosikhand irigation projects are among five major water projects having strategic national importance that are...
Bengaluru, July 28 (IANS) Over 1,000 “war rockets” of the 18th century ruler of the erstwhile Mysore state, Tipu Sultan, were found in an abandoned open...
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Improved punctuality, cleaner toilets and coaches and better quality food and bedrolls provided in trains are needed to match the increased...
Only a diehard optimist would expect that Indias elected representatives would find the time to reflect on national security. But, with Parliament in session, should the...
Forty-four MLAs is the minimum number to stake claim to power in the state. In the 87-member assembly, the PDP has 28, BJP 25, NC 15,...
The government has approved a premium of Rs 2.75 per quintal for each 0.1 per cent increase in the recovery over and above 10 per cent.
New Delhi, July 18 : It is yet to be seen how much the Modi government’s ambitious crop insurance scheme has benefitted farmers, but one section...
The Indian government was supposed to produce evidence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) court by May 19, 2018 against Michel. "But the government did not...
Croatia’s prominence in the football World Cup freshened memories of its origin in the war which expanded after German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher recognised Croatian and...
New Delhi, July 13 : With the new weapon of choice to intimidate publishers being the legal injunction, industry stakeholders contend that they have escaped the...
Supposing the Allahabad High Court had not disqualified Gandhi, how would events have shaped? If Sanjay Gandhi, Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Muhammad Yunus and others had not...
There is trepidation that President Donald Trump has a free hand to fulfill his campaign promise of filling the Supreme Court with 'conservative judges'.
Can we assume that a flourishing economy will ensure a prosperous India? Not quite. Currently, India is at a poor social progress standing of 98th position...
According to them, procedures of Goods and Services Tax (GST) are getting "easier" and the impact of this tax is now being felt in "formalisation of...
While the World Cup is still the show to watch, the Indian cricket team made merry in Ireland, winning both their matches by massive margins, the...
Home buyers who had pinned high hopes on GST for reduction in property prices are disappointed as the overall cost of a property purchase has not...
The Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB) secured deposits of Rs 745.59 crore of the spiked notes -- in just five days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
It's only natural that the voices for and against will get louder and more competitive. Being the unofficial benefactor of yoga, India is expected to take...
Active policies to address the three issues revolving around the value, scarcity and contract enforcement that investors utilise to determine both investments and the required rate...
Colleges have autonomy to choose the sports under which they wish to give admissions. University cannot tell a college to pick a specific sport. It is...
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is slated to release the macro-economic data points of IIP and CPI (Consumer Price Index) on June 12.
According to the RTI replies, the Pr-CCIT, Hyderabad had stated that it had written off a total of Rs 3002.20 crores in two financial years, 2016-2017...
Ukraine's self-supporting foreign trade enterprise, Spetstechnoexport, a subsidiary of state-owned Ukrspetsexportm, and a little-known Global Marketing SP Ltd signed the agreement in 2015.
Spectrum Politics: Unveiling the Defence is a maiden attempt in the direction of removing avoidable confusion being piled up in the minds of the people of...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi is also now a more formidable opponent of Modi than he was in 2014 and his attacks are sharper and unrelenting.
Prime Minister Modi had promised to deliver one crore jobs every year but the number of jobs have decreased in reality.
I do not blame this government for not being able to deliver ‘achhe din’. Which government since Independence has?
In the 2018 budget, the government was widely expected to announce a National Employment Policy, which would lay a comprehensive roadmap for job creation, but that...
The informal summit at Wuhan between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping must be seen in the context of changing global equations. China with...
With Karnataka gone now, Yeddyurappa made an emotional last bid to win people's heart ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Of the students and teachers unions raising questions on the impartiality of the local administration, Peerzada said the AMUSU and AMUTA were independent bodies and were...
Earthquake Resistant -- Immediate Occupancy" in which the building may suffer some minor damage but there would not be any loss of life or property. "Rarely...
According to a CAG report in 2014, "the delay in completing the project was mainly due to lack of proper planning and implementation" which has resulted...
For the survey, 5,221 responses were collected from Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida to understand the factors and possible remedies of sexual harassment against women and girls...
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, April 10 (IANS) Is Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — in power for just over a year — fast losing his...
The shift in the privacy burden, and it is a heavy burden to bear, onto those we entrust with our data to do right with it,...
During great booms and busts, there is always much more noise than real signals to buy or sell. But a shrewd trader/investor always has the ability...
Mumbai, March 24 : A global sell-off triggered by trade protectionist measures imposed by major world economies unleashed the bears in the Indian equity markets during...
An average 23.7 per cent of output and outcome indicators for various programmes and schemes of the Delhi government departments were “off track” till December last...
While even Mehbooba's political adversaries, including the National Conference President, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, have welcomed her decision, her allies in the BJP are not happy at...
A recent "Twitter Audit" report claimed that Modi, Gandhi, BJP President Amit Shah and others lead the list of leaders with fake followers globally.
The opposition parties are expected to wait for assembly elections this year in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh before taking a call on the issue.
It is unlikely, therefore, that the BJP will look on benignly if any beef parties are held in Nagaland or Meghalaya as they were earlier in...
The SP, the AIADMK, the AIFB and the Shiv Sena were the only major regional parties to show a steady increase in their annual declared assets.
The trade is inordinately dependent on the Indian government or companies placing large orders for high value items such as defence equipment or civil aircraft. In...
Nagaland has 75 per cent ‘crorepati’ MLAs, or 45 out of 60 MLAs elected to the legislative assembly this year have individual wealth worth over Rs...
Wildlife tourism is not a viable option in Central Asia -- the area is inaccessible and lacks the infrastructure which all but the hardiest of travellers...
The sudden demise of India’s first female superstar, Sridevi has shocked the entire nation. The actress has left everyone grief-stricken, fans and Bollywood alike. This unexpected...
"What we miss here (in these times) is any sense of fellow feeling, you miss politicians and bureaucrats speaking with real concern or love. Everyone just...
From all accounts, India's encirclement has begun with ruthless efficiency. Pakistan is gone. Maldives is about to fall. Nepal is almost there.
Where does one seek authentic information about India's contemporary military history?
There is no source of entertainment in Kashmir. Cinema halls have been closed. There is no local film industry as many other Indian states have.
The usual brouhaha around the Budget strips the Economic Survey of the attention it deserves. The Survey document, especially since Arvind Subramanian has taken over as...
The WCD Ministry had issued a clarification on the utilisation of the Nirbhaya Fund after repeated reports of its underutilisation were published.
Modi undermined his own case by devoting virtually his entire speech to a party which he thinks should listen to Gandhi's advice to disband itself.
New Delhi, Feb 6: Though 89 per cent Indians think that privacy is important in a relationship, 84 per cent people have shared their passwords and...
New Delhi, Feb 6: Nearly three in 10 Indians experienced a sexual risk online, including unwanted sexting, in 2017 with males reporting higher levels of harassment...
Under Obamacare subsidies covering around 26 million families was estimated to cost $42 billion in 2017. Modicare covering 100 million families allocates $300 million! Even assuming...
Nihalani's "Dev", Deepa Mehta's "Fire", Gulzar's "Aandhi" and Anurag Kashyap's "Paanch" are some of the other prominent films that have courted controversy.
The use of mobile in initiating digital transactions especially payments has seen an explosive growth.
India’s richest, just 1 per cent of its 1.3 billion people, grossed 73 per cent of the wealth generated in 2017 while the wealth of the...
More than 2,200 cities and towns in India are located in districts which have witnessed at least 11 floods in the last 18 years.
Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday announced the abolition of Haj subsidy from this year.
Every 18 minutes, a Dalit is attacked in India. However, the conviction rate is only 28 per cent. UP, Rajasthan, Bihar and MP have witnessed a...
The plan involves changing the education curriculum, increasing women's participation in the workforce and investing in the entertainment and tourism sectors to create jobs for young...
The rising figures signify that there has been curiosity, inquisitiveness and eagerness to know more about Padmini and her legend.
Is the saffron party indeed serious about addressing the root issue of the social evil called instant divorce, and wants it stopped, or is it indulging...
The benefits of Aadhaar, India’s biometrics-based unique national identity system–the world’s largest–are unclear and the impact of direct benefit transfers it will be used to deliver...
Two martyrs, two ideologies, two funerals and two mourning families. Kashmir’s saga of tragedy and destruction could not have a more poignant symbolism as these funerals...
The tax buoyancies have been affected by the transition to the GST and the GST compensation to states will continue till 2022.
There is simply no time for complacency for India when it comes to matters of innovation.
The nature of the political discourse has changed radically; those who seek an inclusive India are termed Pakistanis and anti-national.
The 70th year since Independence will go down in Indian history since the country switched over to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, realising, thereby,...
Like Special Judge O.P. Saini, I also followed the much-hyped and so-called 2G spectrum scam case, my first assignment as a cub, “religiously” for seven years....
The CBI Special Court’s 1,500 page verdict in the 2G case acquitting all the accused including former Telecom Minister A. Raja and Rajya Sabha MP M.K....
It is several days since 17-year-old Nurankis, mother of two, has heard from her husband after he left for Agra to look for a job. Nurul...
The year 2017 could well go down as one of the most painful for the bruised real estate and housing sector, reeling under the short-term disruptive...
The BJP may have won Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but deep down, it also knows that it has lost the battle....
The rise in the growth rate to the moderately satisfactory 6.3 per cent from the depressingly low 5.7 per cent is good news for the Bharatiya...
With the dismantling of trade barriers and the exponential increase of cross-border economic activity, the nature of the global economy has changed. This reality has necessitated...
(‘Note-Bandi: Demonetisation and India’s Elusive Chase for Black Money’ is an upcoming book from Oxford University Press dedicated to the “memory of Indian citizens who lost...
When Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), cautioned the government against demonetisation, saying short-term economic costs would outweigh long-term benefits, he...
As national attention was focussed on the death of 18 children over three days in Ahmedabad’s main civil hospital in October 2017, officials said most children were underweight...
Style, it would appear, never goes out of fashion. But the passion to spend on designer clothes and accessories took a beating in the past year,...
NPA crisis was accentuated by court judgments cancelling telecom licences and coal block allocations. An overzealous CAG, bloodthirsty media, myopic Opposition hurt India’s progress Presumptive loss...
Bengaluru, Oct 26 : There’s one sector which gained more than any other from the centre’s demonetisation move — the banks. Perennially reeling under the burden...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has to answer a simple question: Why have policy rates declined by only 200 basis points when inflation has declined...
New Delhi Oct 23 : While the immediate impact of demonetisation was seen in the long queues outside ATMs and felt through acute cash shortage, its...
"The Free Press is a cornerstone of democracy. People have the need to know. Journalists have the right to tell. Finding the facts can be difficult....
NDA government promised to transform India in 60 months. Forty months down the road, the future looks bleak and bluffing through the jugglery of numbers continues....
New Delhi 9th Oct 2017, : If transfers by the Collegium are made in a non-transparent fashion, even unanimously, people will speculate Under our constitutional scheme,...
October 9, New Delhi, 2017: To navigate choppy waters requires courage. The navigator must be astute enough to recognise the strength of the undercurrent. In Jammu &...
New Delhi, Oct 1 : Intolerance is indeed rising in society but it is not likely to last long as communal polarisation has been a cyclic...
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Sep 29 : As variety is the spice of life, shifting between different literary genres often helps readers retain their interest in...
The PM in attempting to usher in the era of a cashless society, has rendered poor people cashless.
Kolkata, Sep 28 : As Women’s Studies Centres (WSCs) across India face an uncertain future — with the continuance of on-going schemes beyond September 30 subject...
Recent experience shows that Governors in the country have been errant in upholding constitutional values.
The role that the NRIs could play in boosting Gandhi's prospects as a credible rival to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is rather limited.
Kolkata, Sep 14 : For over 200 years, the Nandi family in West Bengal’s Hooghly has been feeding Muslim fakirs during the Hindu festival of Durga...
As a result of the programme, chronic malnutrition halved from 47.9 percent in 2009 to 25.2 percent in 2015. Stunting among children also dropped from 29...
New Delhi, Sep 6 : Ever since violence against the minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar resurfaced, Dil Mohammad has been living in tension silently as he...
To prevent more Gorakhpurs, shake off the apathy and fix India’s broken public healthcare
By Prashant Sood New Delhi, Sep 3: The Union Cabinet’s reshuffle and expansion on Sunday saw elevation of those seen as performing while sending out a political...
Chandigarh, Aug 26 : Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has once again failed the state. Blame it on his lack of experience in political life...
Panaji, Aug 20 : Until some months ago, as Raksha Mantri, Manohar Parrikar, with his trademark fidgety eloquence, could explain the flaws in the LCA Tejas...
New Delhi, Aug 19 : The Congress on Saturday slammed the Narendra Modi government over the railways security record, noting that ever since it came to...
Over the last two years, more than 100 medical facilities managed or supported by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have...
It would be rank bad form to describe Ahmed Patel as a form of life under Sonia Gandhi’s furniture, because the entire Congress Working Committee defers...
Jammu/Srinagar, Aug 10 : The two ideologically divergent ruling partners — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — in Jammu and...
Chandigarh, Aug 7 : Every time the law is violated, there is one set of rules for the common man and another for the privileged class and...
New Delhi, Aug 2 : Almost one terrorist incident occurred on an average every day in the conflict-hit Jammu and Kashmir this year till July 23,...
The 2017 National Energy Policy (NEP), drafted by the NITI Aayog, takes the baton forward from the 2006 Integrated Energy Policy (IEP) in setting the trajectory...
Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, is a very popular leader in that state, with virtues of probity in public life and governance focus on...
Switching sides within two years of securing a mandate has put Nitish Kumar in the lowly category of the Congress MLAs in Gujarat who have been...
According to the Central Statistics Office that brings out data on GDP, no direct data is available to measure the effect of demonetisation on GDP
The crackdown has therefore skewed the market in favour of big companies, which have thus far been engaged in export of buffalo meat.
The killing of seven Hindu pilgrims in southern Kashmir enroute from the holy cave of Amarnath is the latest bloody statistic in Jammu and Kashmir, which...
Ranchi, July 3 : Mobs are increasingly delivering “instant justice” in Jharkhand — and getting away with murder. Over the last two months or so, a...
New Delhi, July 3 : In six out of eight northeastern states, the Modi government failed to provide even a single LPG connection under its flagship...
New Delhi, June 30 : Passengers travelling in first class and air conditioned trains will have to shell out more for their journey after the roll-out...
The two sides have decided not to have an agenda. President Trump is reputed not to pay attention to briefing papers.
Ahmedabad, June 22 : The Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will together have a sledgehammer impact on the realty...
There have been 42% more terrorism-related deaths in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government (BJP) came to power in May...
The unemployment rate in 2015-16 was 5% of the labour force, up from 4.9% in 2013-14, the year before the BJP assumed power. As the BJP...
Mumbai, May 7 : Key macro-economic data points coupled with ongoing fourth quarter results and global cues are expected to affect the course of Indian equity markets...
Lucknow, May 6 : Blood is certainly thicker than everything else. But now, as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks to expand its footprint in Uttar Pradesh,...
Kolkata, May 3 : The massive hunt for undeclared cash launched across the country post demonetisation has revealed that these was either converted into gold or routed...
Often when teachers were not present physically in the classroom, it was for official reasons, such as trainings, data collection, and authorised leave, the study found.
As the prospects for coal-generated electricity recede globally, India is one of the last bastions of the world’s oldest, dirtiest energy source–coal–although construction of new coal-fired...
Till recently, the BIMARU states, along with Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Assam and Meghalaya, held the worst child vaccination records in the country.
Srinagar, April 18 : An alarming spurt in violence in early spring has been marked by attacks on civilians by militants, the army using a civilian...
Chandigarh, April 16 : One is Canada’s Defence Minister and the other is the Chief Minister of a state (Punjab) that has strong connections with the North...
Maruthi and her husband Vellangiri are still mourning for their infant son who lived only for four-and-a-half-hours after birth in 2014. Maruthi, who continued working as...
On January 21, 2017, nine coaches and the engine of the 18448 Hirakhand (Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar) Express derailed near Kuneru in Vizianagram district, Andhra Pradesh, killing 39 passengers...
The Indian National Congress’s humiliating defeat in the recent assembly elections, particularly in its home state of Uttar Pradesh and the assembly constituency of its vice-president...
Chief Minister Adityanath has total assets worth over Rs 71 lakh, while Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad holds total assets of over Rs 9 crore, the...
India has more people in rural areas–63.4 million–living without access to clean water than any other country, according to Wild Water, State of the World’s Water...
The value of digital transactions nationwide declined marginally (1.5 per cent) to Rs 92.6 lakh crore ($1.4 trillion) in February 2017 from Rs 94 lakh crore...
Norway took the top spot from Denmark as the happiest country in the world.
"No such official report has been received," Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
India’s most populous state has slid past Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to record the country’s worst infant and under-five mortality rates, according to newly-released health data....
Of 690 MLAs elected in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa, 27.8 per cent (192) have a criminal record, while 20 per cent (140) face...
Washington, March 16: Using biofuels to help power jet engines cuts particle emissions in their exhaust by as much as 50 to 70 per cent, says a...
The emphatic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls has brought the partys relationship with its ideological mentor,...
With the 2017 Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly elections, Muslim representation in India’s most populous state has plummeted from 17.1% in 2012 to 5.9%. This is equivalent...
Lucknow, March 14 : With Holi, the Festival of Colours, concluding, it seems to be time for some fireworks in the Samajwadi Party (SP), which was humbled...
The CIC had also slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 on the CPIO for rejecting an RTI application seeking details of Modi's graduation degree.
Dhanasekar's fame has spread across the district as the woman who transformed and gained attention for a remote, lost panchayat-village council-largely ignored by officials until she...
This was a first of its kind move by the railways to translocate a heritage property.
New Delhi, March 11 : Congress party veteran Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday effectively turned on its head the BJP slogan of “Congress-mukt Bharat”, as he single-handedly...
United Nations, March 11 : The world is facing its greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the UN has announced, issuing a plea for help to avoid “a...
The last round brought the curtains down on one of the most closely contested, and staggered poll process in recent times. All parties tried to give...
There has been an average increase of Rs 2.84 crore in the assets of these 311 members of the assembly since 2012, an analysis by the...
March4: Ridhima Chopra, 25, once with a NGO in New Delhi is among the growing number of Indian women encouraged to complain — without an end-result...
New Delhi, March 1 : The Congress has much at stake in the outcome of assembly elections in five states, particularly Uttar Pradesh, where its decision to...
New Delhi, Feb 27 : Even as the Union Agriculture Ministry has reported a record 25 percent hike in the production of oilseeds, the country’s goal of...
The low quality of education in the state (and dearth of jobs) puts India's future workforce at risk and is reflected in UP's high unemployment.
Bengaluru, Feb 24 : India may have to import milk in four years, if it cannot increase fodder supply for its 299 million cattle, as rising pressure...
Despite a Rs 10,290-crore increase in health funding for 2017-18, an investigation of the central government’s health budget reveals that most of this money is not...
India must double antenatal visits by health workers to pregnant women to reduce the risk of stillbirths and pregnancy complications, according to a new World Health...
