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In a welcome development, the Union Cabinet has given its approval to a draft Bill to ensure the delivery of services such as passports, birth and...

South Asian women from migrant labour classes who work as domestic helps in countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia and the United States of America,...

Whether or not the now month-long civil agitations at Dhaka’s Shahbag Square can be compared to the iconic protests at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, one...

Indian government has been showing a rather pusillanimous face to the world  when it comes to dealing with the Sri Lankan war crimes committed in the...

The inevitable has happened. After a string of poor performances, dashing opener Virender Sehwag has been left out of the India squad for the...

The spate of kidnapping, raping and killing of children in the national capital territory and in other places of the country indicates a dastardly...

Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, foot soldier and commander-in-chief, military man and the most successful democratically elected president of Venezuela,...

Even if the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) keeps filing reports after reports exposing gaping loopholes in the government’s flagship schemes,...

The Holy Grail of complete HIV cure still remains elusive, though there’s a glimpse of silver lining in the threatening horizon of this medical ‘death...

Much like disinvestment, we are witnessing a surge of ‘disinvitation’, especially when it comes to the thrice-victorious chief minister of Gujarat....

With the government having moved and passed a motion to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe into the controversial Rs. 3,600 crore...

Former Pakistan President and military dictator Pervez Musharraf had been fighting a desperate battle for survival in the wake of serious allegations...