Food prices and PDS
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government loves committees. Have problem, will deliberate, seems to be the government’s motto. So, it…
Read MoreTeachers and students increasingly under attack, UNESCO warns
A new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has found that politically and ideologically motivated…
Read More17,340 dropouts in Dakshina Kannada, survey finds
The exercise was carried out from January 5 to 8 Report says a majority of children quit studies at high…
Read MoreManmohan’s photo cannot be used without PMO’s approval by Sandeep Joshi
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has thrown a spanner in the works of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI),…
Read MoreRelease of activist demanded
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) will stage a dharna in…
Read MoreK.N. Raj: teacher, economist and institution builder by J Krishnamurty
In 1960, when I was enrolled for my MA at the Delhi School of Economics, the shining star at the…
Read MoreRs 1 lakh crore budget funds go unspent each year by Pradeep Thakur
While the government is grappling with a huge fiscal deficit and hence large borrowings to fund key social sector schemes,…
Read MoreSystematic attacks on schools on rise in India: UN
India figures among the four countries that has seen a marked increase in systematic attacks on schools, students and teachers…
Read MoreScientists slam key study behind Bt brinjal ban by Zia Haq
A vital study cited by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to justify his decision to disallow the commercial cultivation of Bt…
Read MoreIn report to High Court, child rights body slams Asha Kiran by Utkarsh Anand
With 35 deaths reported in 2009 at the Asha Kiran home for the mentally challenged, the National Commission for Protection…
Read More‘Need to relocate evicted slum-dwellers’ by Utkarsh Anand
Upholding the right to shelter as a fundamental right for all residents of the Capital, including those living in slums,…
Read MoreClimate for change by Supriya Sule
The drowning Sundarbans, receding Gangotri, excessive and untimely rain in Maharashtra and unprecedented droughts in Madhya Pradesh. Seen in isolation,…
Read MoreCampaign in many Avatars
Vedanta Resources is under fire from heaven and earth, and even Hollywood has been asked to join in. Tribal rights…
Read MoreFears over brinjal have to be shown to be unjustified: Swaminathan by GS Mudur
India’s leading agricultural scientist, an architect of the green revolution who has no ideological opposition to the genetic engineering of…
Read MorePIL as an unruly horse by MJ Antony
SC lays down eight rules to streamline the PIL movement and wants the courts to follow them What the development…
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