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The maiden monetary policy review by the celebrated economist and new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Raghuram G Rajan has turned out to...

NUMBER of people who can benefit from government’s welfare programmes is going to swell. Currently, the central government caps the entitlements under...

A 35-second television commercial that cleverly promotes Horlicks by hyping on loss of nutrients in boiled milk has sparked a controversy. The...

All I got from my visits to two doctors at two of Noida’s leading private hospitals were impoverising bills, innumerable pills to pop and little...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to leave New Delhi on 25 September morning on a four-day visit of the United States to attend a summit...

The retirement of psephologist Yogendra Yadav from the University Grants Commission (UGC) has had its desired coverage in the media. However, I doubt...

DRUG manufacturers’ associations in the country have written letters to the governments of Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, informing...

When 32-year-old Amita (name changed) and her husband went to see a gynaecologist after she suffered a miscarriage, they were shocked to know that the...

By becoming Miss America, Nina Davuluri, an American woman of Indian descent and who wants to ostensibly become a cardiologist, has inadvertently set...

One of the oldest political parties in the country has been aspiring international ambitions though it has yet to establish its presence in Hindi...

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is taking a worrisome turn. Both external and internal factors lend credence to the conclusion. Take the external...

When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change in 2008 and its target to reduce energy intensity, he was...