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India needs a landfill the size of West Bengal to dump 21,630 million tonnes of construction and demolition (C&D) waste it will generate from...

If artifice is intrinsic to diplomacy, the agenda of the meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 August...

As the deadly Ebola virus spreads in West Africa taking a lethal toll with its hemorrhagic fever, curious reports are emerging of the patents the US...

The back-to-back visits by the US secretaries of state and defence have set the ball rolling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming trip to...

With the government and the Reserve Bank gearing up to enact a new bankruptcy law in India, certain sectors of industry and sections of entrepreneurs...

With a comfortable majority in the lower house of Parliament and  being confident of improving the tally in the upper house before long, the Prime...

The miserable performance of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata Dal (United) - in the national elections compelled both Kumar and Yadav to bury their...

Narendra Modi’s visit to Nepal, the first by an Indian prime minister in 17 years, has received kudos from all stakeholders and commentators on both...

More than a month after Israel launched a murderous onslaught on the Gaza Strip, with over 2,000 casualties, there’s still no clarity about when...

When a faithful retainer is asked to assess his masters, he has no option but to play safe. Moreover, his servile instincts make him blind to any...

What should I eat now? Is there nothing that is safe?’ This is what I am asked every time we do a study on toxins in food. It is a fact that our food...

Raining rockets and bombs or threat of Islamic State (IS) jihadists are not the only emergencies in the countries of West Asia. The region is also...