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The recent UNICEF report that contaminated water is stunting the growth of Indian children needs to be taken seriously. According to this report,...

The Supreme Court’s direction by the Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and H L Gokhale to declare VVIP and VIP security assets comes as a welcome...

The state visit of the French President François Hollande to India, his very first to any Asian country since he assumed office in May 2012, is a...

Embezzlement has always been sort of a globalised practice, but what has changed in the 21st century is not just its pace or scale, but the sheer...

With china having emerged as the world’s largest goods trading nation, edging past the United States, India must weigh its eco-political options with...

When the Bofors scandal rocked Indian polity in the mid-1980s, it had such a shock value that the then Congress chief and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi...

The scrapping of wrestling, one of the handful of sports that India has made a mark in, from the 2020 Olympics comes as a rude jolt to not just us...

Just how far and how deep is the involvement of the government’s premier investigative agency with the biggest corruption scandal that cost the...

The horsemeat scandal that is taking Europe by storm these days is symptomatic of a much larger malaise that has been shoved down our throats by the...

The bubble universes of the ‘pop up mega-cities’, as the Maha Kumbh Mela 2013 at Prayag, Allahabad has been aptly described by a research team hailing...

It is clearly not a good time to step into the beleaguered shoes of Omar Abdullah, who is grappling with a deeply divided politics, one that is...

The UPA government’s decision to hang Afzal Guru, the main accused of the 13 December 2001 attack on Parliament, on the morning of 9 February inside...