The Department of Personnel and Training Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday assured RTI activists of initiating a public debate before…

India is still perceived to be one of the most corrupt countries by the transparency international in its annual corruption…

After strong protest from civil society organisations, the government has admitted that it is considering amending the Right to Information…

In the 1990s, Ahmed Khan’s company in Bangalore, India, churned out hundreds of thousands of plastic bags and other packaging…

The Indian government has ordered hundreds of paramilitary troops into eastern parts of the country where Maoist rebels have increasingly…

Japan on Wednesday said that greenhouse gases emission rate in China and India had reached an alarming proportion and hoped…

Tulsi Devi, an adivasi from Uttar Pradesh, is neither an expert on climate change nor has the know-how of dealing…

Ever since Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama, which castigated India as a “soft state”, western observers, as well as many members…

Kheema Ram, a 40-year-old farmer from Rajasthan who exposed a number of corrupt practices through his more than 350 RTI…

Amid concerns that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) could tighten its monetary policy in January 2010, inflation during October…

One billion hungry people, the largest such cluster in history, are depending on another one billion to donate small amounts…

Broadcasters attending the United Nations-backed fourth World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF 4) have called for sustained and concrete global action…

The head of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today wrapped up a five-day visit to India, during…

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon intends to join a 24-hour fast over the weekend on the eve of the World Summit on…

The Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen said on child domestic workers that “it is not economic poverty but rather political…