The historic city of Bhagalpur in Bihar, often in the news for the wrong reasons, figured in the Lok Sabha…

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi have reportedly exchanged correspondence over the issue of amendments to the…

Food inflation rose marginally to 17.87% for the week ended February 20 on the back of higher prices of milk,…

The Union home ministry has rejected the Bengal government’s request for a caste-based census. “Census 2011 will tabulate population of…

This is the second term of the UPA and till now we have always seen Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and…

It is not just the irony. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had recently over-ruled the clearance by his ministry’s Genetic Engineering…

Spiralling prices of pulses have shown India’s dependence on imports. Pulses are integral to India’s diet but not its food…

Sesikaran says Bt crop’s long-term effect on health can be studied only if it’s approved for commercial production Concerns raised…

Conventional wisdom among many ecologists is that industrial-scale agriculture is the best way to produce lots of food while preserving…

Much of the daylight robbery in the name of Commonwealth Games has been justified in the name of "National Prestige"…

Nine years after the state’s creation, the cabinet today decided to set up a human rights commission in Jharkhand. The…

Morning-after pills should be back on air. And not just private companies but even the Union health ministry should advertise…

Bhubaneswar: Poor budgetary expenditure has been a cause of headache for the state government with less than a month left…

The Supreme Court has ruled that fast-track courts, set up to ease the load of pending cases in subordinate courts,…

Hundreds of polluting industrial units in Delhi are set to close shop as the Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought…