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The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) is now following the footsteps of the Ministry of Water Resources and River Development and Ganga...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the first day of this month launched the Digital India week as part of a larger policy initiative. This is an effort...

Suddenly, the ‘Mother of Europe’ seems like Lady Macbeth. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, for whom the maternal sobriquet was coined, is appearing...

The slide in the BJP’s image continues unabated. Recent controversies primarily arising out of the conflict of interest of some senior BJP leaders are...

Terrorism cost the Pakistani economy nearly $100 billion (Rs. 6.4 lakh crore) between 2004-05 and 2014-15, according to data in the Pakistan Economic...

IN 2002, when Ashtamudi lake in Kerala was brought under the Ramsar convention, it was expected that this would stop the lake’s deterioration....

With the simultaneous launch of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Housing for All and the coveted Smart Cities...

One of the most defining narratives of present-day India is nepotism. Otherwise a simple term – recall the polite <g...

Where does the right to information (RTI) begin and die? What constitutes public interest and when do privacy issues override them? These questions...

It was in the first week of January 2004 at the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit held at Islamabad in Pakistan, that the...

Systems of revenge and vendetta are part of the native cultures among the tribes of Afghanistan, clans of Somalia, Sicily, Arab lands, Latin America...

In a major development, China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, has submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions...