In a rare outburst, a sitting High Court Judge has alleged that “a vocal and aggressive Executive Government is attempting…

For the Bonda tribals of Orissa, a constant struggle is on—with state and custom The inside of the thatched hut…

Activists realise it takes a fight to translate democracy from thin paper to thick action In the winter of 1997,…

Chairman of the State Human Rights Commission S.R. Nayak said here on Sunday that the commission was receiving complaints regarding…

Jharkhand has pulled off a remarkable turnaround in funds utilisation for the Centre’s flagship rural employment scheme, spending around Rs…

In 2006-08, Maharashtra saw 12, 493 farm suicides. That is 85 per cent higher than the 6,745 suicides it recorded…

An international private-social group foresees India’s water demand exceeding availability by a factor of two by 2030. Time is now…

The now-familiar debate over Bt brinjal, the first genetically modified food crop almost poised for commercial production in India, posits…

Pratibha urges “out-of-the-box” thinking on agriculture  Involve agricultural economy more pro-actively in growth process Stress on “environment of security” for…

‘Certain areas of judiciary cannot be made public and it is not necessary’ Institutional decisions by CJI should be kept…

The Centre has decided to go ahead with the controversial proposal of constructing Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras at the panchayat…

Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Monday said challenges still remained in the electoral system. The real empowerment and participative governance at…

It is probably the best news for Mumbai’s leading builders who had invested thousands of crores of rupees on buying…

As states get together to launch security operations, official data from the first-ever study done of the country’s 33 districts…

Gender-based disparities have shown a decline in the country in the last decade with the national capital scoring the highest,…