Rajiv Ramakrishnan, an undergraduate at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been doing his bit to help the United Nations achieve its Millennium Development Goals for the advancement......
Even as the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party coalition government in Maharashtra is drawing flak over the rising cases of farmers' suicides, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi......
'The Opposition has no option but to make it an 'All versus One' fight to even think about winning.' Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters In an exclusive interview to ANI, Prime Minister Narendra......
As India gears up to honour its pravasis on January 9 to mark their contribution in the nation’s development, Rediff.com presents perspectives from eminent writers on the Diaspora.Kicking off......
The tragedy is that, at least on social media, the narrative that was being lapped up by many Indian Muslims was that Yakub Memon was being victimised. The purveyors of this poisonous line of......
The government is set to overhaul the National Investment Fund from April 1. From the next financial year, the government will utilise the disinvestment proceeds for recapitalisation of banks and......
Starting next month, there will be no service tax on construction of some low-cost housing, power distribution, foreign travelers in transit, those flying to and from the Northeast, services within......
Union Tourism and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja has said both the ministries under her have vast potential for employment generation and convergence between the two is......
With undeniable sightings of green shoots of economic recovery, this would have been Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Independence Day speech of triumph. That it was, but in parts. For good measure,......
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday made a strong speech in Parliament demanding the widening of the scope of relief granted to farmers through the loan waiver scheme announced by Finance Minister......
The exposure draft of the National Youth Policy, 2012, was unveiled by Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken on Thuursday. The Draft NYP 2012, said Maken, is a first of its kind as it......