Poverty attracts two kinds of policy interventions. The first hopes to eradicate it and the second wants to keep the…

Amid all the celebrations over the Right to Education (RTE) coming into effect from April 1, there is an elephant…

The Food Security Bill is going to be taken up afresh by the empowered group of ministers on Monday, on…

The Centre has claimed that India’s Northeast has never been as peaceful this century as it has been since January…

One hardly needs a reminder that the Right to Education is different from the others enshrined in the Constitution, in…

The Planning Commission has offered an objective assessment of the unsatisfactory situation as far as Indian agriculture is concerned in…

The draft food security legislation readied for cabinet’s approval is much narrower in scope than what was initially envisaged and,…

On Thursday — April 1 — India will join a group of few countries in the world, with a historic…

In our 63rd year of Independence, the Right to Education Act comes into effect on April 1. On the eve…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered an inquiry by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) into trafficking…

Today, we have reached a historic milestone in our country’s struggle for children’s right to education. The Constitution (86th Amendment)…

Assam today became the first state in the country to enact a legislation that seeks to ensure right to health…

India launches on Thursday the task of counting its teeming billion-plus population, with 2.5 million people set to fan out…

In an attempt to prevent the misuse of funds under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the Planning Commission…

A big push to develop agriculture in the poorest countries is needed if the world is to feed itself in…