Opinion - Page 843

India’s fastest-growing state is Meghalaya at 9.7 percent in 2013-14, higher than the fastest-growing big state, Madhya Pradesh, at 9.5 percent....

Evidence of corruption in developing countries like India can cause massive turmoil. Two cases in point have been the near collapse of UPA-II on...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the world’s first and largest social programme of its kind, has brought with...

In Jammu, litchi was flowering—much earlier and out of season. This is because winter had not come and it was warmer than usual. But now as the chill...

Your reporter isn’t very literate when it comes to the subject of economics. At least, I do not understand the kind of economics that ferrets out...

The introduction of constitutionally mandated governance at the local level with three million representatives has drawn the attention of the world...

Love, sex, and babies form the foundation of human existence. Without them, the human race will cease to exist. Zika, a virus that few people had...

This column derives its name and title from the farmers’ festival organised annually by the district administration of Burdwan and the Agriculture...

No one in his right mind can object to the concept of smart cities, where infotech and related technologies come to the aid of urban services. Thus,...

Rohith Vemula, a PhD student, focused on the interstellar spaces and Carl Sagan. In a different location, a sewage cleaner looks for live cockroaches...

The rapid expansion of e-commerce, foreign brand retail, IT and electronics start-ups, e-transaction portals, financial inclusion, RuPay bank cards...

To most supporters of Narendra Modi, including those outside the saffron fold who welcomed his economic agenda, the Prime Minister’s tenure so far has...