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There was a 24 per cent rise in rural women accessing public healthcare between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report by Brookings India, a think...

Reserve Bank of India’s new 500 and 2000 Rupee notes confirm what many feared – that this design overhaul will be used to push certain iconographies...

An apocryphal invocation: ‘May you live in interesting times’, is commonly attributed to the Chinese tradition to be cast on ones’ enemies, now...

Shivraj, a namesake of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lost his one-year-old son Dharmraj in August this year. “His growth was extremely slow,...

It is a paradox of the Indian social and political scene that in a country where female infanticide is not uncommon, there have been women leaders who...

The debate in the Parliament on demonetisation is lying in limbo with the Opposition and the treasury benches unable to find a meeting point to start...

In a crisis that is deteriorating by the day, thousands of Muslim Rohingya residing in western Rakhine state in Myanmar are fleeing the country,...

It will be no surprise if December 7 sees a second consecutive rate cut from the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which has effectively substituted...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on November 8, 2016, to announce the withdrawal of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.The speech (in English)...

It is official. Black money is back. Cash sharks — doctors, businesspeople, hawala operators, lower court practitioners, brokers, transport operators,...

As a planet, we have some serious climate targets to meet in the coming years. The Paris Agreement, signed by 192 countries, set an aspirational goal...

Thirty-two years have passed since highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory and sneaked into the surrounding slums....