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The Congress-led government in Kerala has decided to carry out field-level verification in the Western Ghats to demarcate forest land as Ecologically...

Boondoggle! That’s how Dick Martin explained to me the shale gas revolution in the United States of America. Boondoggle is slang for an activity that...

Last month, a news report titled “water wives”, was doing the rounds in various media platforms. The story brought to fore the fact that somewhere in...

Nine months before Tamil Nadu goes to polls in May 2016, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and other Dravidian/fringe parties are out to surpass one...

India has been called the pharmacy of the world. Many generic drugs are made there and much of its drug production is exported internationally....

By leading a march to the Raj Bhavan in Patna on July 13 and demanding the immediate release of the Centre’s caste-based census data, the Rashtriya...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal knows how to manipulate public opinion, a ‘quality’ that every politician must have. Even if his comments are...

During the UPA-2 regime, there were WhatsApp jokes doing the rounds that the day’s Parliament session lasted as long as one needs to cook a two-minute...

Bernard Shaw’s witticism, “Science never solves a problem without creating ten more” is compelling in the light of New Horizons’ Pluto flyby. With...

Leaders from around the world are all set to adopt a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a United Nations (UN) conference in New York...

India’s policymakers have been slow to realise that its vast population can be a source of economic growth. The common perception is that the poor are...

Manipur, especially the Imphal valley, is in the throes of an extraordinary mass movement which has erupted around the Inner Line permit (ILP) issue....