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Although mired in controversy over their accuracy and methodology used to arrive at the declared figures, the shrinking of absolute poverty is, of...

In the war over ‘social indicators’ and the poverty debate, India has produced ample thinkers and tinkerers, but only some deserve the ringside view...

Now that the vice president of the United States of America is here to ‘voice concerns’ on India’s wobbly economy and to convince the Indian elite of...

The India story, evidently, is riddled with contradictions, with extremes of hope and abysses of despair traversed on a daily basis. On the one hand,...

The claim by Indian scientists in March this year that a vaccine for malaria has been discovered is perhaps not true. In what was hailed as a possible...

Every time the precipitation in the national Capital goes over the mark, the city inevitably turns into a watery grave, drowning in its own ineptness....

With the rupee plunging to a new low, measures must be taken so that the economy must not hurtle into a crisis bigger than it can safely avert....

The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s latest missive to the country as well as India Inc that his government would leave ‘no stone unturned’ to revive...

As the world’s most beloved anti-apartheid icon and living legend turned 95 on Thursday, braving severe illness and battling the odds against a...

Coalgate has put the finger sharply upon the string of corruption scandals involving the Indian government’s umpteenth attempt to throw away the...

The Supreme Court’s order to the state governments to ensure the speedy treatment and rehabilitation of acid attack victims comes as a sign of relief,...

The UPA government’s massive move to hike foreign direct investment in as many as 13 sectors within days of the union finance minister’s visit to the...