By Vikas Datta Britain on Friday voted to leave the European Union after a 43-year-long stint. But it had less than smooth relations with the group of nations — its first application to join was…
By Sukanya Bhattacharyya Over 10 years, the central government spent Rs 21,482 crore ($3.2 billion) building houses for the urban poor but 23 per cent of them are vacant, according to a May 2016 answer…
By Govindraj Ethiraj Nothing in Indias Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanians statement made at US Congressional hearings in 2013 and 2014 suggest he is anti-India or batting for the other side. At worse, the testimonies…
By Rajan Sankar & James Levinson Obesity and overweight recorded an 8.6-fold increase in Indias rural areas over 14 years, compared to a 1.7-fold increase in urban areas over 20 years. In the rural areas…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi I stay in rural Maharashtra. We have reached a stage in life where we hardly shop but sometimes need specialty items like books, computer peripherals, herbal teas and the like. These…
By Saumya Tewari Family courts in the prosperous, southern state of Kerala ruled on just over five divorces every hour in 2014 – 130 every day – more than any of the 12 Indian states…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) While the world is witnessing cloud data breach incidents more often — micro-blogging website Twitter being the latest one — and governments the world over are looking…
By Rajendra Shende Even before the entry into force of the Paris climate agreement that saw global jubilation just six months ago, we are faced with the possible risk of exit by referendum from the…
By Saumya Tewari & Rohan Bapat More than half of Indian households did not have a source of drinking water at home – 63 per cent in rural India – and a fifth of rural…
By Amit Kapoor The union cabinet last week approved the much-awaited civil aviation policy. The policy, which has been instituted in an integrated format for the first time since independence, breaks new ground in the…
By Rohan Bapat In 2016, the air in Bihars capital, Patna, was classified the worlds sixth-most polluted in a World Health Organisation (WHO) ranking of 3,000 cities in 103 countries. There are 10 Indian cities…
By Rekha Bhattacharjee With the dust settling on a raucous election campaign and with a new regime taking the reins in its hands, an analysis of the Assam poll results becomes apparent. The passing of…
By Ankit Sinha Few poets in the country have been as influential as the 15th-century mystic Kabir. His poetry, written in vernacular Hindi, borrowed elements from various dialects like Avadhi, Braj and Bhojpuri and focussed…
By Vikas Datta Author Samuel Butler once observed that “to die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead”. By this standard, well alive…
By C. Uday Bhaskar China has just tipped its hand in relation to India ahead of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary in Seoul on June 24. An op-ed in the Global Times (June 14)…
By Vikas Datta History is full of incidents that have lessons for later times, provided they are not forgotten. One key aspect is the interface between politics and the judiciary. In a time where the…
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…