By Poorvi Kulkarni Etapalli and Bhamragad talukas, Gadchiroli (Maharashtra): Over two nights in early January, Madia Gond tribals — or Adivasis, as they prefer to be called — of southeastern Maharashtra gather every year in…
By Arvind Padmanabhan New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) In February 2013, opposition parties, notably the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took to the streets in protest as the price of petrol in the national capital spiralled…
By Major General P.K. Chakravorty (retd) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Vietnam on September 2-3, 2016. The visit was the first by an Indian Prime Minister after 15 years. Twelve agreements were signed during…
By Amulya Ganguli Any satisfaction which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) felt over the internal strife in the Samajwadi Party (SP) must have been diluted to a considerable extent by the truce, albeit an uneasy…
By Prachi Salve and Alison Saldanha In 2016, some learning outcomes for 111 million school-age students between ages six and 15 remained mostly unchanged in BIMARU states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh), when…
By Salim David The tradition of Jallikattu is many thousands of years old in Tamil Nadu. The recent ban on this festive event has the entire state up in arms. What typically happens during Jallikattu…
By Chirayu Padhiar Stem cell therapy has turned out to be a ray of hope for most patients who are trying to find a cure for incurable diseases. Researchers and experts believe India has been…
By Charu Bahri In March 2012, Sanjay and Sunita Ambhore, parents of Aniket Ambhore, 19, a first-year electrical engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), received a letter informing them that their…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) “I am with Zaira,”, one of the top trending hashtags, took the virtual world by storm on Tuesday after Dangal starlet Zaira Waseem, a 16-year-old Kashmiri, was trolled by a…
By Rekha Bhattacharjee With Donald Trump set to be inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, will his presidency alter India-US-Australia trilateral relations? It is an indisputable fact that the…
By Amit Kapoor A special “Nobel Series” session was a notable addition at the latest Vibrant Gujarat Summit (January 9-12). Nine laureates were invited to share their thoughts about the challenges of humankind and what…
By Alison Saldanha Mumbai: There are about 12 million to 14 million kirana shops — family-run corner-shops/mom-and-pop or convenience stores selling groceries and other products — across India (according to a 2015 report by PricewaterhouseCoopers,…
By Saeed Naqvi Pardon my naivet?, but I cannot for the life of me comprehend why the entire US establishment, with the intelligence community in the vanguard, is in convulsions about the alleged Russian efforts…
By Amulya Ganguli Although two opinion polls have given different findings about which party will be the winner in Punjab, conventional wisdom is that the ruling Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine will have a…
By Prathamesh Mulye “Demonetisation has made banks flush with funds, and they will lend it to productive sectors.” – Power Minister Piyush Goyal, November 26, 2016. It won’t be quite as easy as Goyal said….
By Devanik Saha During a recent visit to Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his alcohol ban policy. He said: “I greet Nitish Kumar from the core of my heart…
By Khushboo Balani Reading and some math skills of Madhya Pradesh students are among India’s lowest, the transition rate to higher classes is lower than the national average, a majority of classrooms are shared by…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Several factors such as a drop in body temperature, decreased level of vitamin D in the body and an increase of blood viscosity may heighten the risk of cardio-vascular diseases during…
By Amit Kapoor The most recent Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) reflects a contraction in the manufacturing activity in India in December. Most domestic and international analysts and experts are looking at it from the viewpoint…
By Swagata Yadavar There were nine road accidents that killed three people every 10 minutes in 2015, according to new national data, an increase of nine per cent over four years. Road accidents killed 148,000…