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During his peak, pole vaulter Sergei Bubka was his own competition. Every now and then he would increase the height ever so slightly. But come world...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took out a rabbit from his hat when he invited the SAARC leaders for his swearing-in ceremony on Monday and took it...

No expression is strong enough to condemn the project delays during the Congress-led UPA regime which, according to latest estimates, blocked gigantic...

For the new government the mandate is development. So while setting the development agenda it would also be worthwhile to review India’s National...

The largest electoral event in world history so far covered 28 states, 7 Union Territories and had to cater for a little more than 814 million voters...

If the right to education (RTE) is the book, the story is indeed bleak still. Here’s the writing on the blackboard: even nearly four years since RTE’s...

This is happening in month long campaign of CGnet Swara (www.cgnetswara.org), a community radio experiment on the mobile phone, which is reaching out...

Kerala, which is still reeling under the devastating defeat suffered by the ‘state-friendly’ Manmohan Singh government, has no one but itself to blame...

There are three distinctive features of Narendra Modi’s cabinet. First, it is compact – a 45-member team compared to Manmohan Singh’s 77. Secondly,...

‘Narendra Modi to be India’s first social media prime minister’ concluded the Financial Times. The newspaper cited tweet of Narendra Modi ‘India has...

The futures contracts for August delivery in the COMEX gold in the New York commodities exchange was trading at a 15-week low of $1,265 per ounce,...

Some events remain firmly etched in our collective memory. Nelson Mandela’s oath-taking ceremony in 1994 was an awe-inspiring event that marked the...