By Charu Bahri Out of the 2.77 crore population of the state, only 0.06 per cent was found abusing drugs, which is the lowest percentage across the nation, said Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh…
By Amulya Ganguli The rapid entry and exit of Kamal Nath as the Congress observer in Punjab has once again shown the inadequacies of the party’s leadership. A decision on such an important appointment dealing…
By Saeed Naqvi Every Joint Secretarys room in the Ministry of External affairs had a neatly folded copy of the International Herald Tribune on the coffee table. This was the pattern in the 70s and…
By Jai Vipra A staggering 1,275 people died in police custody in India between 2001 and 2013 but less than 50 per cent of custodial deaths led to a case being registered, data from the…
By Tanay Sukumar When the then Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury launched the Dhanalakshmi scheme in 2008, she hoped it would encourage families to educate girls. The scheme encouraged families to delay marriage,…
New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved raising of the retirement age of central government doctors to 65 years, union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday. The retirement age of…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) “Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born,” said Alan Kay, a US-based computer science pioneer credited with designing the Dynabook — the basis for…
BY Abhishek Waghmare Farmhand Yashodabai Rathod, 38, migrated to Mumbai for the second time in last three years, with her husband, three daughters and three sons, brother-in-law and his wife, and their three children from…
By Abhishek Waghmare Clad in denim, white tee shirt and possessed of the self-confidence of a Mumbai collegian, Babban Chavan, 25, looked distinctly out of place in the ragged tarpaulin-and-bamboo migrant camp that houses drought…
By Amit Kapoor The economic cost of compliance with laws in developing countries can be humongous. A competitive economy reduces the regulatory burden and comes up with solutions to reduce compliance costs. At present, the…
By Abhishek Waghmare A migrant from Maharashtras drought-stricken Marathwada region triples her income – if temporarily – after moving to Mumbai, climbs out of poverty and can repay loans, but families must live in 40…
By Kevin Tiessen Once relegated to the status of “orphan crops”, pulses and millets are currently a subject of tremendous interest among the global community. Pulse crops, millets and a host of other local cereals,…
By Shreya Mittal As two senior Indian ministers tussle over the declaration of some wild animals as “vermin”, the damage to crops from animal attacks declined 33 per cent over two years to 2012, according…
By Amulya Ganguli The “Udta Punjab” controversy shows some of the worst manifestations of governance in the country. First, it highlights the failure of the Punjab government led by the Akali Dal and the Bharatiya…
By Saeed Naqvi I don’t exactly gasp but am puzzled by the indifference with which the media has treated two fascinating Indo-Iranian stories. Now that Indo-Iranian relations are set to improve after crucial agreements signed…
By Devanik Saha India is set to lose 3.6 per cent of annual daylight work hours by 2025 due to rising temperatures, reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of data in a new United Nations report. The…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M. Kadakin on Thursday condoled the death of veteran journalist K.K. Katyal, saying he would be remembered as a “true friend of Russia”. In a…
By Shreya Mittal & Sukanya Bhattacharyya As many as 18.3 million Indians live in conditions listed as “modern slavery” in 2016, equivalent to the population of Netherlands, a rise of 4.1 million since 2014, according…
By Nishtha Bharti Five states with no more than 32 per cent of Indias population of senior citizens (above 60) cornered 71 per cent of the Rs 34 crore that the Centre provided for maintenance…
By Amit Kapoor According to the World Urbanization Prospects of the UN Population Division, the percentage of people residing in urban areas is slated to rise to 60 percent by 2030 and to 66.4 percent…