With the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen just 13 days away, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has highlighted…

Whenever I went missing as a child, my mother would come looking for me in the pata, Lalitabai Meshram said,…

FIVE HOURS’ bus ride from Kolkatta, just past the railway crossing at Beldanga, is a dilapidated concrete structure covered in…

The number of MPs with assets worth over Rs one crore has doubled in the present Lok Sabha compared to…

It does seem that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh chose an inopportune time — the eve of the crucial UN climate…

Ending months of speculation about exactly what it was planning to do to boost the use of renewable sources of…

Two elements in statement caused most concern; "It has deviated from the text approved by PMO" The statement issued by…

Upset with Bihar’s NDA government for its decision to amend the Right to Information Act, social activists in the state…

ALAPPUZHA: The State government is contemplating distribution of rice at Rs.2 a kg to all agriculture workers irrespective of whether…

Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna on Sunday pitched for framing a sustainable Himalayan development policy to prevent receding of glaciers, a development,…

Around a third of India Inc’s investment plans are in states affected by Naxalism. Anyone who’s been reading Mahesh Vyas…

A survey reveals that desperate times have led to illegal measures THE recession has taken its toll on morals as…

“THE world’s attention is back on your cause.” That was Bill Gates talking to agricultural scientists gathered recently to honour…

The widening chasm between India and Bharat is perhaps best reflected in the manner in which electricity is consumed. The…

Chhattisgarh announced a proposed investment of more than Rs 1,77,000 crore in the state. Until October 2008, it had signed…