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The credit of initiating the reforms goes to the then Chief Election Commissioner T N Sheshan.The ball which he rolled has been rerolled by his...

Many have raised genuine apprehension over the feasibility or even desirability of a civil servant working only under written instructions of the...

Cutting common pollutants like soot or black carbon, will not only slow global warming but also save millions of lives, says a World Bank report...

The BJP’s ‘mentor’, L.K. Advani, can be credited with having taken the initiative to blow away the cobwebs which have surrounded the debate on...

India has not produced a world-beater youth celebrity since its independence. Hokey maestro Dhyan Chand and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar are probably...

He has survived the vicious politics of stepping on an Indian bureaucratic ladder, rising to its pinnacle as a chief economic adviser and Reserve Bank...

The many opinions on opinion poll in India may be broadly classified in two groups. Those whose opinion is to ban opinion polls and those who want...

 Over 1.3 million tribals and forest dwellers have got rights over the land they had been using for years under the Forest Rights Act. This can, in...

‘Aashura’, the tenth day of Moharram or the day of Imam Hussain’s martyrdom, will be Nov 15 this year. All of us, seven brothers and sisters, will be...

Scientists started tracking these 11-year-cycles in 1976 and the initial processes of the fourth flip have already started. ‘The polar field in the...

The UPA recently called for a blanket ban on opinion polls in India, tagging these as subjective and manipulative. Undoubtedly, such a demand by a...

In my childhood years in urban Bengal, ‘Boshe Aanko’ (sit and draw) painting competitions were a rage among the pre-teens. Anecdotes gathered from...