CPI(M) demands immediate tabling of long-pending Bill to provide legal aid to victims Eradication of the dreaded disease one of…

Noting that the Right to Information (RTI) Act has ushered in the beginning of participatory governance, Vice-President Hamid Ansari on…

Funeral aid is proposed to be raised from Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 5,000 In case of death, compensation to go…

The Anderson saga is one more reminder that the powerful can always count on official help.  In the fall of…

High levels of toxic chemicals are still found in Bhopal’s drinking water, a new report published ahead of the 25th…

There are now one billion hungry people on the globe, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said recently. A statistic…

India continues to be one of the most corrupt nations in the world with many of its public institutions given…

To import rice or not? That is the question to which the government does not seem to have a clear-cut…

Change is the great constant of the world economy. India was still a colony when the allied powers shaped the…

Judicial activism has faced several assaults from politicians and bureaucrats ever since the Supreme Court became affirmative. But the sad…

It has been a bumpy ride, with developed countries failing to make definite commitments and India hinting at a shift…

It was to be a somber memorial, a remembrance of those who perished in a lethal milky fog. To mark…

The President of International Fund for Agricultural Development stresses that access to funds for developing countries will help them make…

SOMETIMES, TO accentuate the intransigence of the present, one must revisit the past. So first, a flashback. The year is…

Debate at Annual Press Freedom Round Table centred on revenue-content divide HYDERABAD: As the print medium faces a steep decline…