ON AUGUST 15, when prime minister Narendra Modi announced extending the financial inclusion plan of the former UPA government and renamed it Pradhan...

Call it the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) effect or the restlessness of the electorate, political parties are scrambling to involve people in drafting their...

The good news is that economies the world over are set to grow. The bad news is that the growth will not be able to check unemployment that has been...

WITH most of its recent schemes struggling, a desperate UPA government is pinning its hopes on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee...

Price hikes have limited effect on consumers, states Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in the report, The State of Food Insecurity in the...

Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has stirred up yet another controversy, this time with his ‘toilets before temples’...

On 18 July, nearly 155 students fell ill after consuming contaminated mid-day meal in Neyveli town in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district. The incident...

IN YET another attempt to save regional rural banks from collapse, the government intends to take private parties on board. In the recently concluded...

More than 20 tents are spread across the sprawling grounds of Bikash Bhavan at Ladri Joshala of Uttarkashi district. Ramesh Singh Rana, 38, and his 12...

Khatoo Kothari is overjoyed. Last year he got his children admitted to a private school. His village, Ogna, is deep inside the Udaipur reserve forest...