New Delhi: India’s child sex-ratio (below six years) is now the worst in 70 years, possibly the worst ever. The...
In the summer of 1975, the anger against corruption and high-handedness that rippled across the northern half of India...
Thiruvananthapuram: With polling in the Aruvikara assembly by-election scheduled for June 27, it's more or less a...
The logjam over equitable distribution of the Teesta waters has arisen from a Bangladesh proposal of sharing the water...
The Narendra Modi government's chief economic advisor, Arvind Subramanian, has said that the rate of poverty...
Measuring a government’s achievements in its first year has to be inherently speculative. But some things can be...
Chennai: J. Jayalalithaa, often described as the 'Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu', returned to power on Saturday -...
Each time there is a mention of Smart Cities in India, I get concerned about the safety of women because there is a...
A big earthquake in Assam and in the Himalayan region was expected ever since I was a geophysics student at Banaras...
The rise of China as a great power is no longer a matter of speculation; it is a given fact. Most nations today...
It is easy to get swept away in the maelstrom of views and counter views, but difficult to arrive at an informed...
The conflict between the heads of the judiciary and the executive has been in place for long. With the formation of the...
It was believed that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would withdraw the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) subsidy for those...
The land available for farming in India, already under decline, is feared to drop further with the Bharatiya Janata...