By Vinod Behl The government’s latest policy package to revive and boost the cash-strapped construction and realty sector by putting in place a mechanism to release funds that are stuck in arbitration is a significant…
By Amit Kapoor Access to healthcare is important in developing countries like India. This is because apart from treatment of ailments and diseases and the well-being of citizens, a productive population is the basis of…
By C. Uday Bhaskar Global attention that is both transient and fickle is currently focused on the G20 summit at Hangzhou that is being seen as Chinese President Xi Jinpings Olympic equivalent. The 2008 Beijing…
By Saeed Naqvi Sometimes, important events take place after stories connected with them have been taken off the front pages, when anchors moved on to to new scenarios. Turkish armour moving into Syria, or warlike…
By Amulya Ganguli A Belgian admirer of India’s saffron brotherhood, Koenraad Elst, said in his book, “Mahatma Gandhi and His Assassin”, that the murder caused a huge setback to the Hindu nationalists. Sundar Singh Bhandari,…
By Silvio Grocchetti India is 35 tanker-trucks short of the blood it requires for medical procedures, yet some areas of the country wasted blood because there was too much of it, according to an IndiaSpend…
By Aroup Chatterjee If Mother Teresa, to be canonised at the Vatican on September 4, is to be named a patron saint of anything it should be for “misinformation”. In the last 20 years of…
By Prachi Salve At least 60 million Indians — a number more than the population of South Africa — suffer from mental disorders, even as the country lags the world in medical professionals and spending…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IndiaSpend/IANS) In Odisha, a man slung his wife’s body over his shoulder and carried it 10 km after being denied an ambulance on August 24, 2016. In Kanpur, a man’s sick…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS/IndiaSpend) As many as 27 journalists have been murdered in India in direct retaliation for their work since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-profit organisation based…
By Rajendra Shende Historically, central bank chiefs have overlooked the risks due to climate change and focused on tinkering with the repo rate. They act as monetary technicians to reduce the risks for the savers…
By Abhishek Waghmare After two consecutive droughts, India received average rainfall — 2 per cent less than the 100-year average — by the end of August 2016, but within that range, more than a third…
By Sheikh Qayoom The trail of death and destruction left behind by nearly four weeks of unrest in the Kashmir Valley has dealt a serious blow to the political base of the ruling Peoples Democratic…
By Chaitanya Mallapur More male babies were victims of foeticide than female in 2014, the latest year for which data is available, according to national crime data, indicating the extent of under-reporting. As many as…
By Arnab N. Sengupta In this age of bloody bomb attacks on soft targets ranging from wedding parties in Turkey to tourist towns in Thailand, the turmoil in Kashmir is a ticking bomb the Indian…
By Amit Kapoor A recent book by Time business columnist Rana Foroohar offers interesting insights about economies in general in the post-crisis world and about the American economy in specific. It also can be seen…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi Last week a person who gives out on hire his Dolby music truck for marriages and other functions used a vacant plot near our house to test his equipment. The heavy…
By Vikas Datta Do you have to be born in a place renowned as a cradle of poetry to be considered a part of its tradition, or is its ethos so strong and pervasive that…
By Amulya Ganguli While sections in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to believe, as Bal Thackeray did, that the gun is the only solution for the unrest in Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has…
By Charu Bahri Panic gripped Manipur in July, 2016 when a four-year-old girl — after suffering high fever, convulsions, and slipping in and out of consciousness over a few days — succumbed to Japanese encephalitis…