The State Cabinet on Wednesday approved a comprehensive scheme for the treatment and rehabilitation of people afflicted by the use…

Climate change is the biggest factor driving forced displacement, a top United Nations official said today, underscoring that global warming…

The outcome of the historic climate change negotiations in Copenhagen hinges on the issues of emissions reductions and financing, Secretary-General…

Activists also opposed to use of JCB machines Hundreds of protesting villagers march towards the Chief Minister’s residence The Gehlot…

Welcoming the proposal by the Railways for setting up a coach manufacturing unit on the land that was earlier acquired…

India’s Supreme Court has admitted a plea to end the life of a woman who has been in a vegetative…

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed by voice vote the contentious Essential Commodities (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2009, (sugarcane pricing…

After a gap of almost a decade, all the nine major trade unions on Wednesday jointly staged a dharna in…

Missing job cards, fudged muster rolls and diversion of NREGS funds through fake bills. What the Rajasthan social audit has…

The Centre today told the Supreme Court it was thinking of making child marriages invalid, taking a step forward against…

Referring to China in 1947, Nehru declared, “A new star has risen in the eastern horizon,” and some years later…

Health minister Surjya Kanta Mishra today pushed through the Assembly a bill that will allow “half-doctors” to practise in villages,…

After dedicating most of 2009 to jump-starting financial markets through stimulus packages, developed countries are now turning their attention to…

Farmers of Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh, who have been served a notice for acquisition of land for a freight…

The independence of the judiciary and the rule of law will be severely compromised if the integrity of the higher…