The new nutrient based subsidy (NBS) regime cleared by the Union Cabinet on Thursday is likely to slash the governments…

Institutions will need to protect not just female employees but even women visiting office premises from sexual harassment under new,…

Monica Das Gupta is a senior social scientist at the World Bank. Her field research in Punjab, when she was…

The Centre has finalised guidelines that pave the way for a wide range of works on private land under the…

South Asian nations including India would not be able to eradicate poverty and ensure minimum education for all by 2015,…

After the suspicion and hostility of a few held up the introduction of Bt brinjal, the prime minister’s economic advisory…

The controversy around Bt brinjal has served at least one good purpose. The government has fast-tracked the process of setting…

Finally, they have bitten the bullet on fertiliser subsidy. For the past three years, the Union government has agonised on…

The government’s decision to hike urea prices, as part of its move to rationalise subsidies, has upset farmers. Farmers are…

The introduction of many new social welfare schemes could be delayed because the rural development ministry and the Planning Commission…

The Centre plans to manacle the RTI Act When the UPA passed the landmark Right to Information Act in 2005,…

The agriculture ministry’s revised farm output projections for this year, indicating just about a 7.5 per cent downturn in foodgrain…

India’s food inflation rose for the fourth straight week in early February, heightening worries that it was driving up headline…

In Danta village, 15km from Bhilwara city, 30-odd women start filing in at 8.30 am daily to resume work on…

For more than seven years, Babar Ali, 17, has been teaching children from poor families for free at a school…