The European Commission (EC) has called for an open discussion between India and the European Union on how to deal…

Member-states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on Tuesday agreed to make a separate statement as an…

Faced with rising world hunger and “unacceptable” poverty, members of the Food and Agriculture Organisation Committee on World Food Security…

The Indo-Asean FTA provides an opportunity to be more engaged with the region This is an important week for Prime…

Calcutta, Oct 20: The CPM central committee appears to have underestimated the decline in the party’s vote in Bengal in…

There is a real fear that the Kyoto Protocol will be killed soon Two years ago, amidst much fanfare, a…

It’s not hard to find tender hands of children as young as five washing utensils at roadside dhabas or girls…

Laxman Choudhury, a newspaper reporter based Gajapati (in the eastern state of Orissa) who has written about alleged local police…

If a country’s national income is rising, someone in the country must be getting richer. Unless income distribution is changing,…

Workers who found jobs through temporary employment agencies were among the first to find themselves out of work as a…

The government has decided to release data for manufactured goods in the wholesale price index (WPI) with a monthly frequency,…

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen…

India is ranked a poor 65th in battling hunger, according to the Global Hunger Index for 2009. The report, released…

The 2009 Global Hunger Index (GHI), released last week by the International Food Policy Research Institute, sheds renewed light on…

In the final analysis, what makes any NREGA social audit worth all the pain and effort is the awareness it…