Opinion - Page 845

There are four years left for the government target of ensuring all Indians use toilets, but in urban India alone, no more than 30 percent of sewage...

Vasudev Lokhande is the beneficiary of an ambitious Maharashtra government programme to permanently transform the lives of farmers devastated by a...

In April 2000, Bill Joy famously wrote in Wired Magazine: “Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are...

Earlier this month, the Union Cabinet passed the new crop insurance scheme (PMFBY) in a bid to “transform” the lives of farmers. Launched by the Prime...

In 2015, the word “tolerance” almost assumed the status of the fabled Holy Grail. Though mostly debated from religious and ideological perspectives in...

The nuclear deal with Iran was a milestone, of course. But the lifting of sanctions has freed Tehran to sign contracts left, right and centre. A...

We are in the midst of Republic Day celebrations. With the French president in town, the media space has been grabbed by issues related to terrorism...

Last week at University  of Hyderabad, a bright and young research scholar Rohith Vemula took his own life. Rohith’s death has sparked a major...

You would not think there was a worsening farm crisis in India’s second-largest agricultural economy if you met Jairam Jadhav in the central region of...

Startups form the basis of a more productive and prosperous nation. The growth of several countries in the past has been driven by a need for creating...

Swiss banks may not be too happy with India’s latest round of searches for big Indian accounts there. But, largely impoverished India’s endless gold...

A murder and a suicide have queered the pitch for the BJP’s relations with two major communities - the Muslims and Dalits.If Mohammed Akhlaq’s...