The Copenhagen Accord on climate change marks a shift from a government pledge to Parliament, environment minister Jairam Ramesh accepted…

By endorsing the Copenhagen Accord at the just-concluded U.N. climate meet, India has failed to protect the interests of the…

From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members of Britain’s House of Lords will be required to…

India’s federal home minister has said he is ready for "serious negotiations" with Maoist rebels. P Chidambaram said the rebels…

Shocked by the “pernicious practice” of publishing “paid news” by some newspapers and television channels – particularly during the recent…

HIV/AIDS screenings on job applicants and existing employees may be banned under a proposed policy that says the infection should…

The outcome of the Conference of Parties at Copenhagen is “good” but not “adequate,” R.K. Pachauri, chairperson of the Inter-governmental…

In the Indian reform story, policies on land have been the least reformed one, said Ratan Tata on Monday. The…

There are two reasons why the Indian Supreme Court is considered the world’s most powerful. First, Supreme Court judges self-appoint,…

BEFORE ANY debate starts, we must remind ourselves that India has a tendency of corruption. India, though a democracy, has…

The new joke on Dalal street is that gold prices are soaring, not because of increased demand in the US,…

I first met Paul Samuelson in 1962, as a student at MIT. A decade later, I had the pleasure of…

The Union finance ministry’s mid-year fiscal Review, tabled in Parliament last week, notes very correctly that the “current period represents…

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on world leaders to attend a summit next September to boost efforts to achieve the…

Brazil and India are now among the top five government supporters of research into third-world diseases, according to a study…