The modus operandi for immunising the country’s 1.35 billion population in stages has been thrashed out in more than one meeting among top government officials in the health ministry and the......
At 70, going by hospital records made public, most age and health-related arguments put out against super-star Rajinikanth’s entry into politics, before he withdrew citing a 2016......
The holding of simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections may not be possible before 2024, and a Constitutional amendment is required to conduct such a synchronised exercise, former poll......
Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has opened the first office of the Milli Muslim League in Lahore, days after the Pakistan government said the group would breed violence and extremism in......
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Tuesday appealed to workers of her party and the Samajwadi Party to forget their past differences to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. IMAGE: BSP......
Formed in July 2023, the SCoS was supposed to advise the Union government on survey methodology, including sampling frame, sampling design, and survey instruments. With the dissolution of former......
Ashish Bose coined the term BIMARU in a paper to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s to highlight the economic backwardness of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. He tells......
'If the current mood in North Block, headquarters of the finance ministry, is anything to go by, the government will now keep a closer watch on all kinds of schemes and projects undertaken by......
Over the past decade, rapid structural changes in the economy have radically altered what was once a low-profile department. With the private sector playing an expanding role in public service......
Despite Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis' ambitious plan, 40 per cent of the state is reeling from drought and its water tanker economy is booming. As of February 2019, the state government......