By Prachi Salve The Railway Ministry said “no” to a question in the Lok Sabha on May 4, 2016, when asked whether it is India’s largest employer of manual scavengers — sanitation workers who clear…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Devils’ Alliance – Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941; Author: Roger Moorhouse; Publisher: Vintage/Random House India; Pages: 400; Price: Rs 599 Two major powers changed sides – into the Allied camp…
By Anurag Dey Kolkata, Aug 25 (IANS) Having won West Bengal twice — in 2011 and 2016 — by inflicting crushing defeats on the opposition, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is now trying to do…
By Amit Dasgupta Innovation worries us. At one level, many perceive it as a threat to their jobs and, in fact, to their way of thinking and behaving. It challenges what they are used to….
By Pavitra Mohan As India’s 70th year of Independence begins, widespread progress is evident, but in rural India, where 833 million Indians (70 per cent) live, people are consuming fewer nutrients than are required to…
By Charlie Moloney As many as 78 per cent of the 18,452 inhabitable villages the government set out to provide with power have been “electrified”. However, 92 per cent of the 10,072 newly-electrified villages include…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) It was Google that first flagged off self-driving cars. Tesla Motors, GM and Ford soon followed, and now with two bold moves, Uber, the on-demand car pioneer,…
By Devanik Saha Indian marathon runner O.P. Jaisha said she fainted at the Rio Olympics on a hot, humid day because no Indian sports official provided her with water or glucose water, a reminder that…
By Saumya Tewari In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shuttler P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal; Sakshi Malik the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal (bronze), gymnast Dipa…
By Amit Kapoor Access to healthcare is a major challenge in developing countries as this involves making available affordable and quality medicines to people living in poverty. Goal 3 of the UN’s sustainable development goals…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) India is poised to become the world’s leading market for Cloud, and for US software major Oracle, Cloud is a force-multiplier that the country must embrace to…
By Subir Bhaumik Agartala, Aug 21 (IANS) Dipa Karmakar’s coach Bisheswar Nandi had once sought the intervention of the Tripura government to “save the career” of the promising gymnast from “unnerving conspiracies”. In a long…
By Amulya Ganguli The joy felt by Indians over the successes of P.V. Sindhu in badminton, Sakshi Malik in wrestling and Dipa Karmakar in gymnastics is understandable. At the same time, the question needs to…
By Saeed Naqvi Kashmir is ablaze and relations with Pakistan are at a low. Consequently, the communal cauldron is on a slow simmer. The gas can always be turned on for it to bubble over….
By Saumya Tewari As many as 358 million Indian women (61 per cent) have bank accounts, up from 281 million (48 per cent) in 2014, the biggest jump for “banked” women among eight South Asian…
By Veturi Srivatsa Ironically, the day woman wrestler Sakshi Malik brought in India’s first medal from the Rio Olympics, the cricket-loony country may have had greater pleasure in their team’s ascent to the No.1 position…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 19 (IANS) Star shuttler P.V. Sindhu entered the women’s singles final to assure India of a second medal at the Rio Olympics while the Indian contingent suffered a blow with wrestler…
Bengaluru, Aug 18 (IANS/IndiaSpend) The police investigation against Amnesty International India — for slogans raised during an event the global advocacy organised — is the second such sedition complaint registered in Karnataka this year after…
By Rajendra Shende It was hotter than normal in Vienna when US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived there late last month. He flew straight from an international meeting with 45 countries on IS-related terror…
Silvio Grocchetti & Charlie Moloney India has 47 million youth of secondary and higher secondary school-going age out of school, according to a report by the Montreal-based UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Global Education Monitoring….