SC should recall Rafale verdict, try Modi government for perjury: congress
Bhupesh Baghel to be Chhattisgarh CM
Congress will do its work on farm loans waiver, BJP should perform its role : Gehlot
Sabarimala darshan denied to 4 transgenders
Nervous Modi reaches Gandhi family bastion Rae Bareli in UP
Indonesia’s Sulawesi island volcano erupts,spewing ashes upto 7.5 km high
Wickremesinghe reinstated as Sri Lankan PM
Chhota Shakeel’s brother Anwar Babu Sheikh detained in Dubai
Israel Demolishes house of Palestinian charged with Killing Soldier
Sri Lanka’s disputed PM Rajapaksa resigns amid crisis
No need of JPC on Rafale after apex court verdict: Akhilesh
Rahul Gandhi hints at resolving Chhattisgarh CM tussle
Government is responsible for giving wrong facts to Supreme Court: Kapil Sibal
Modi Government mislead Supreme Court: Sharad Pawar on Rafale Report
RSS Pracharak Satish Dhond appointed Goa BJP organising secretary
All inside pics, videos from Isha Ambani, Anand Piramal Wedding Reception
Disney fires ‘Andi Mack’ actor after his arrest on charge of sexual misconduct
Sona Mohapatra wants Kailash Kher out of Mayur Utsav
I’m not going to tone down just because I’m married: Ranveer Singh
Chris Pratt makes his love for Katherine official on her birthday
Fed interest-rate, global trade to dictate equity indices, rupee’s trend
Wall Street collapses, S&P 500 ends at lowest since April
94 MLAs with criminal cases, 187 multi-millionaires in new MP Assembly
Sensex ends flat on weak global cues, RBI board meet
Lower food prices ease India’s WPI to 4.64% in November
Railways start work under MGNREGA scheme
Universities should consult industry on designing courses to make students employable
Ratan Tata conferred steel industry’s lifetime achievement award
Reverse bidding: Five players get nod to supply 12,000 rail wagons
Fitch Ratings lowers India’s FY19 growth forecast to 7.2%
US bill over reciprocity of access to Tibet awaits Trump’s signature
Modi’s BJP suffers defeat in Hindi heartland states
Blow to BJP ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls – News Analysis
Verdict in Hindi heartland states gives Congress hope for 2019 – News Analysis
Next, a presidential contest between Modi and Rahul – Comment
Sindhu becomes first Indian to win BWF World Tour Finals title
2nd Test: India 172/3 at stumps, trail by 154 runs vs Australia
India’s Sindhu defeats Thailand’s Intanon, storms into final
PV Sindhu in semis of BWF World Tour Finals
Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap are married
Kissing contest banned in Siddo-Kanhu fair in Jharkhand
Evening walk may not cause sleep issues as previously though
Make your tea special this International Tea Day
State Assembly results rejection of communal polarisation: JIH
Mushirul Hasan: Man with a mission and a vision – Obituary
India witnesses significant rise in dementia-related cases: Lancet
Late childbirth linked to high breast cancer risk
Fish oil reduces bleeding risk in surgery patients: Study
Baby born from transplanted uterus from dead donor big breakthrough: Doctors
Alcohol intake may cause weight loss in diabetics
Honeymoon spots that will make your marriage more memorable
Taj Mahal entry fee hiked by Rs 200
Beside comfort and high speed, India’s Train 18 also to be fire-proof
Train 18 likely to be launched on Dec 25 between New Delhi-Varanasi, with increased fare
In the first instance of a party getting majority on its own in 30 years, BJP won 282 seats in...
Is a question that is haunting many in the BJP. For a party that stormed to power after 16 years of political exile, the stunning 2017...
Given the varied use of government spending, the question remains on how important it is to focus on the “basic” infrastructure services such as roads, electricity...
Over the last few weeks, it had become evident that there were at least three things that the government wants the RBI to do differently.
Last week, the Indian equity indices dipped over concerns of a resurgence of US-China trade tensions and reports of crude oil supply cut.
The Railways is suffering due to the slow pace of delivery and has tried to step up procurement.
Dec 8 : There are an increasing number of Entrepreneurs going through financial struggles, because of poor planning and knowledge and let’s discuss the way out The nascent...
The report also predicted that with the merging of information technology and traditional broadcasting, seven to eight lakh jobs will be created by 2023.
Buriram (Thailand), Dec 2 : Rajiv Sethu’s feat of gaining his first point outside Indian soil has not only brought smiles on the faces of the...
Healthcare in India today is tale of two groups. The first group is the wealthy and upper middle-class who receive their healthcare primarily from private sector...
The projects coming up in Saudi Arabia are part of 'Vision 2030', launched by the Kingdom, in order to shift from an oil-based economy to an...
Here's what happened -- and the subsequent sensational events that finally culminated in the hanging of the sole gunman caught alive, Ajmal Amir Kasab. But, the...
The book presents the inside-out of various airline businesses that have been in India along with IndiGo like the state-run Air India, Jet Airways, Go Air,...
He cited lack of cyber security experts behind the challenges the world is facing and warned Indian authorities to take precautions and keep vigil on social...
The corporate responsibility to respect human rights cannot be ignored even despite the slow pace or inaction of governments to deliver on this duty.
Each year, on November 26, she invariably falls ill over my father's painful death and his memory... She remains like that for at least 5-6 days....
The provisional figures from the stock exchanges showed that foreign institutional investors sold scrips worth Rs 856.61 crore in the week ended November 23.
Investments by countries to secure strategic financial and regional advantages have been strategies for a long time. In the face of rapidly changing geopolitical dynamics, a...
Other than food and water, shelter forms the third most important component of the basic human requirements. It was fitting that the government turned its attention...
Concentrations in Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, and the National Capital Territory of Delhi are substantially higher, and the impact on life expectancy...
New Delhi, Nov 19: As the National Capital Region (NCR) battles poor air quality during winter, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has started a...
New Delhi, Nov 18 : The revised flexi-fares for premier trains will be applicable from March 15, 2019 — and advance bookings have commenced as the...
Encouraged by Adityanath, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has suggested the name of Karnavati for Ahmedabad. Not to be left behind, the BJP's ally, the Shiv...
Gartner predicts that by 2023, 50 per cent of major enterprises will use digital twins of the organisation in combination with digital business platforms.
New Delhi, Nov 15: Affluent AC passengers are the prime suspects as over 21 lakh towels, bedsheets, blankets and other items went missing from air-conditioned coaches during...
Given the current economic scenario of India, it would be prudent to have our eyes on the pressing issues that need the attention of the government...
New Delhi, Nov 13: Alleging that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its followers lose no opportunity to denigrate Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections in India, Facebook was teaming up with global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) to do fact checking, Khanduri said.
New Delhi, Nov 12 : Smart home speakers are steadily gaining ground in India and Amazon’s Echo range has been appreciated the most so far, followed...
F-Secure gave the break-up: Austria (12,540), the Netherlands (9,267), the UK (6,347), Japan (4,701) and 3,708 attacks targeted Ukraine's businesses.
According to an official statement, companies that signed deals at the CIIE include multinationals like Volkswagen, Westinghouse Electric, ABB, Carnival, Rolls-Royce and Standard Chartered. American majors...
A renowned environmentalist, Harshwardhan, says that it was an irony that Rajasthan authorities were unable to outline which is the reserved Aravali region in Rajasthan or...
In the first event of its kind in South Asia, the government of Nepal and national and international conservation organisations released critically endangered white-backed vultures in...
Unlike OnePlus 6, the 6T has been introduced in only mirror black and midnight black colour variants. We used the smartphone (8GB RAM+128GB variant) for almost...
The PM's promise that Demonetization would eradicate corruption was undoubtedly one of the main reasons for the initial goodwill towards Demonetization from the very poor, despite...
Facing the challenge, Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning "Two can play the game" and threatened counter investigations of Democrats.
New Delhi, Nov 6 : Even as residents of the national capital contend with a poor air quality index, the bursting of crackers on Diwali will...
In a refreshing change of pace for the government, which has been reeling under challenging economic circumstances of late, the release of the World Banks Doing...
Media reports have portrayed the differences between the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a face-off, or worse still, as attempts by the...
New York, Nov 5 : NASA has awarded nearly $7 million for a fresh interdisciplinary project to detect new, non-Earth-like life on Mars, Jupiter and Saturn’s...
Bengaluru, Oct 29 : The exponential growth of Bengaluru as a major technology hub over the years has lured leading Israeli hospitality chain Dan Hotels to...
Redmond (Washington State), Oct 29 : Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the big buzzword in the world of technology as it promises to change the way we...
Similarly, the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex lost 966.32 points, or 2.81 per cent during the week, to close at 33,349.31 points.
Pune, Oct 28 (IANS) In August, the Indian kabaddi team, for the first time since 1990, failed to secure the gold at the Asian Games, which...
Situated opposite the SNDT Women's University Juhu Campus in Santa Cruz West, Cafe Arpan is specially designed for them.
In an unprecedented development in the early morning yesterday, the CBI chief Alok Verma was dramatically thrown out, his office sealed, and several officers transferred from...
Modi's compelling sales pitch has not been matched by effectiveness of the product being sold, because of which there is a huge gap "between promise and...
"Interim regulators can be appointed according to the law, but interim regulators for an indefinite period is a lacuna.
It is all nice to say that fans deserve fairplay, not cheating and corruption. Yet, allegations of betting, spot-fixing and match-fixing keep sprouting in the world...
The liquidity availability to the sector has become a concern after the default by some of the IL&FS Group companies.
There was never any doubt about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) anti-minority electoral gambits but the agenda has now been unambigiously and forcefully articulated by the...
Bengaluru, Oct 16 : As the effects of climate change on livelihoods become more pronounced, especially for people involved in agriculture and fishing in South and...
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.
