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By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, April 10 (IANS) Is Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — in power for just over...
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...
