Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has been given two more weeks time by Lokayukta to respond to allegations of misuse…

Judges at India’s Supreme Court have made public details about their financial assets and published the information on the court’s…

If there is one sector that is visibly the intersection of backroom politics, crony capitalism and serious threats to India’s…

When the Indian government met the largest economic crisis the world has faced in nearly 80 years with tax cuts,…

“This is a country on the make.” The speaker was a young assistant to one of India’s rising political stars.…

Some 300 million children in South Asia, or half of the region’s under-18 population, suffer from chronic levels of poverty,…

Anxious to spur up the rural economy in the naxal-affected districts of the country, the Centre has underlined the imperativeness…

Govt can help by raising public spending on healthcare The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, which represents a large section of the…

Should the Right to Information Act be renamed the Right to Ignorance Act? Despite the introduction of the RTI Act,…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) launched a new action plan on Monday to prevent…

Hundreds of thousands of sick people in India are suffering unnecessary and excruciating pain because of a lack of funds,…

The Union Cabinet will consider on Thursday a proposal to give a bonus of Rs.50 per quintal on the minimum…

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (2005) differs from the other poverty alleviation measures in two significant respects. Where most…

The language of rights has come into increasing use in India in public debate in the course of the last…

The fourth edition of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Gender Gap Report, released on October 27, makes for somewhat depressing…