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Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India, is fast turning into an organic farming hub. The bustling city is home to India’s biggest organic restaurant,...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B McDonald “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows...

By mid-year, India has realised  that its economy is grossly under-performing, well below the expectations raised in the Union Budget for <g...

Having witnessed the grisly news of the Mohammed Akhlaq’s killing in Dadri via media, I am reminded of Ameer Khusro, the inspired Sufi poet of...

For over two years, the government under both the previous Congress-led UPA and now BJP-controlled NDA had insisted that the Reserve Bank (RBI) should...

Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi flies from one public-relations triumph to the next in foreign capitals, discerning people back home have an...

When Narendra Kumar, a labourer who lives in a slum in Delhi’s Badarpur area, returned home from work on September 13, he found his mother burning...

India’s announcement that it will cut emissions by 35 percent by 2030 at 2005 levels is certainly a welcome announcement. But the key is to sensitise...

In a week’s time, Bihar will begin the process of electing members to the new state assembly. Politicians and presspersons have variously reasoned to...

Where do siloxanes come from? The name may sound Greek to many of us, but we are constantly exposed to siloxanes in our everyday lives. They are...

EVERY YEAR, as the monsoon begins to wane, it stirs up an old scourge: dengue fever. But what has startled the country and public health experts this...

There is a pattern around Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to many a foreign shore. A visit gets announced; media starts building up some...