Only a process of reverse migration based on the Gandhian model can save India’s cities, and also rural India.  A…

The government is reportedly toying with the idea of restricting the mandate of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to…

This newspaper recently hosted its annual debate on whether a resurgent Bengal was an impossible dream. Not surprisingly, the verdict…

Women in developing countries will be the most vulnerable to climate change, a report from the United Nations Population Fund…

No matter how much we try to make up for our historic underinvestment in roads by frantically constructing flyovers and…

Kyoto Protocol coming to an end in two years from now  Younger generation benefits more from Kyoto Protocol Forest management…

Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Prithviraj Chavan, is understood to have assured the National Campaign…

President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday called for enrolling women in a big way to make cleanliness a pivotal campaign in…

Judges should be made of sterner stuff and should not recuse themselves merely to preserve an appearance of non-bias when…

Women and child development minister Krishna Tirath has ordered her ministry to initiate fresh consultations on a proposed law criminalising…

The article presents the political and economic impacts of various kinds of natural and man-made disasters and associated displacement of…

PETTAH, India — As he approaches his first tree of the day, S. Mohan presses his calloused palms together and…

The quarterly Survey of Professional Forecasters conducted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) revised India’s gross domestic product growth…

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 8.6% in September 2009, the same as the previous month and 2.3…

The head of the UN food agency, Jacques Diouf, says he is not satisfied with the final declaration of the…