By Charu Bahri In the 1960s, the average annual per capita consumption of sorghum and millets was 32.9 kg, roughly eight times the 4.2 kg an urban Indian consumed in 2010. So-called “inferior” sorghum (jawar)…
By Amulya Ganguli It is sad to see a promising politician stumble and be in danger of falling flat on his face. Till the Janata Dal United’s setback in Bihar in the last parliamentary polls,…
By Chaitanya Mallapur Forty-one military aircraft — including trainers and helicopters — have crashed between April 1, 2012 and July 2016, killing 65 defence personnel and civilians Thirty-six defence personnel were killed in 39 crashes,…
By Rahul Mohan Sharma More than 20,000 people lost their lives in hit-and-run cases nationwide in 2015, according to government data, and the reluctance of witnesses to be involved because of legal entanglements illustrates the…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS/IndiaSpend) About 42 per cent of the Rs 22 lakh crore ($328 billion) revenue of the central government and 35 states and union territories will now be subsumed under the goods…
By Devanik Saha “#India’s #coal story: from scarcity to surplus in 2 years!” tweeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shaina NC on July 30, 2016. Although Shaina’s tweet did not refer directly to Coal…
By Manupriya As floods ravage eastern and northern India, agriculture in 115 districts across 15 states is “highly vulnerable” to climate change, according to a study published in the Indian Academy of Science journal Current…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Why Chinese? The screaming headline on hoardings in the capital and beyond showcasing new US smartphone maker InFocus clearly signals the beginning of an era for the…
By Amit Kapoor The Indian economy is heading for interesting times. With the government trying to push key legislation like GST — possibly on Aug 3 — the future of the Indian economy is a…
By Chaitanya Mallapur As thousands of laid-off Indian workers in Saudi Arabia were said to be without food, 87 per cent of complaints received from Indian workers at Indian missions across nine countries were from…
By Monica Lazeetta After more than 50 years, the Colombian government led by President Juan Manuel Santos put an end to the armed conflict through negotiations and the signing of a definite and bilateral ceasefire…
By Sreedevi R.S. Over 20 years and five assembly elections — as women became better educated, led a variety of popular movements, voted in and contested elections in ever greater numbers in Kerala — the…
By Abhik Ghosh On the 25th anniversary of India’s economic reforms, a general consensus seems to have emerged within the country and without that the next phase reforms must address what has so far eluded…
By Adil Zainulbhai In a remote hamlet of Sikkim, a young man has a new toilet built by his house. He no longer escorts his wife and children before sunrise to the bushes in the…
By Vikas Datta The Caribbean, for most of us, brings to the mind a once invincible cricket team, holiday cruises, voodoo, pirate yarns, rum, reggae, Rastafarians — and these days, tax havens. But there is…
By Amulya Ganguli Even as Sonia Gandhi prepares to pass the baton to her children in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, it is obvious that she is not only opting for semi-retirement a…
By Abhirup Bhunia As Textiles Minister Smriti Irani settles in to her new job overseeing an industry that is India’s largest source of formal jobs, the government’s hope that it will continue to be an…
By Saeed Naqvi Balloons in blazing colours billow down the ceiling of the Democratic Convention arena in Philadelphia. Then the cameras pull back, enveloping the Obamas and the Clintons in a shower of confetti, as…
By Ruwa Shah New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) It takes courage to ask for blood for someone else when you yourself are on the verge of death. That is precisely what 24-year-old Sumegha Gulati, a…
By Sarwar Kashani Srinagar, July 29 (IANS) It was not a secret journey to be made in the dead of the night. It was rather a compulsion because chances of getting caught in Kashmir’s continuing…