It is a step which is expected to reduce the room for political and technical whims and biases, bring in…

If we can have a nuclear submarine programme, a space missile programme, cricket sponsorship programme by individuals like Sharukh Khan,…

After more than six months wait, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Friday signed the file for the notification of the…

42,000 teachers have not been paid salaries for five to 10 months Even as the State Government attempts to stave…

Villagers were paid wages two months late which is a violation of rules  The government’s flagship scheme for the rural…

Saving the world’s myriad diverse species, which are being lost to human activity at an unprecedented rate that some experts…

By putting an open-ended moratorium on the commercial cultivation of the gene-altered Bt brinjal, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has ended…

Without fertilisers, said Normal Borlaug, the world would need two billion people to volunteer to just disappear.  Obviously, it makes…

As the country awaits another central government Budget, there is a growing demand for more financial muscle on several fronts.…

K.N. Raj, widely respected development economist and teacher and one of the architects of the Indian Plan edifice, passed away…

The sub-committee constituted by the Press Council of India to examine the phenomenon of “paid news” during the recent Lok…

India’s relative position with respect to the Education Development Index remains poor. There is a lot to do in terms…

A revenue court in Vidarbha has issued orders restoring a disputed piece of land to a poor farmer who alleged…

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ruled that there could be no curb on the number of licences issued to…

A local court in Maharashtra has upheld a farmer’s plea that India’s first family had fraudulently usurped a little more…