IMAGE: Heated debate and verbal duels were witnessed between the opposition and treasury benches in Lok Sabha on vital issues like cow-lynching and mob-violence, agrarian crisis and the......
The Olympic torch touched down the Indian soil in the wee hours of Thursday with colourfully dressed children receiving the flame here amid unprecedented security. The torch, 72-centemetre long and......
The Commonwealth Games is symptomatic of the deeper decay, decadence, and debilitation of our moral and ethical standards. It is not just about Suresh Kalmadi. It is about much more, notes Sanjay......
'Before jumping to a conclusion that India has been able to end poverty, we should interrogate the labour markets.' IMAGE: A scavenger, surrounded by a flock of Greater Adjutant birds, collects......
Renowned economist Suresh Tendulkar, 72, has died of a cardiac failure in a Pune hospital.A former director of the Delhi School of Economics, where he was a colleague of Prime Minister Manmohan......
A task-force headed by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya will soon come up with a new methodology to estimate the number of poor in the country. The task force held its first meeting on......
The recent release of the updated index for comparing the value of currencies across countries - generally known as purchasing power parity, or PPP - will have far-reaching implications. ......
The number of poor in the country declined to 27 crore (270 million) in 2011-12, from 40.74 crore (407.4 million) in 2004-05, Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev......
IMAGE: Former chairman of selectors MSK Prasad believes it is unfair to compare the two eras given the amount of cricket being played now. Photograph: MCA/X The gruelling Test tour of South Africa......
As expected veterans Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan made a comeback to the Indian squad that will play five One-dayers and a Twenty20 International against Sri Lanka later this month. However,......
Veteran Sachin Tendulkar was recalled while paceman Praveen Kumar and spinner Rahul Sharma were also included in India's 17-member squad for the next month's tri-series in Australia. Irfan Pathan......
Seasoned players Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh were rested while Yuvraj Singh was recalled in the 15-member Indian squad for the upcoming cricket tri-series in Sri Lanka, beginning from......
Sachin Tendulkar was rested for first three one-dayers against England, as the national selectors announced a 15-membersquad, whichincludes M Vijay of Tamil Nadu,in Nagpur on Wednesday. Tendulkar......