This attack-dog behaviour....: Tharoor slams BJP over US deep state charges

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party after the US rejected the ruling party's allegations that elements in the American 'deep state' were behind......

These Scientists Shaped India

I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims.We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing......

2 Foreign nationals kidnapped in Pak

Two foreigners, an Italian and a German, were kidnapped by unidentified armed men from Multan district of Pakistan's Punjab province on Thursday, police said. The foreigners were abducted at gun......

Abducted US national freed in Pakistan

Pakistani law enforcement agencies on Thursday recovered American national Dr Warren Weinstein from the kidnappers' custody from district of Khushab, some 160 kilometers from Lahore. The United......

CERC bags USAID slum project

The United States Agency for International Development has chosen the Ahmedabad-based Consumer Education and Research Centre to work on its slum electrification project. The project will be mainly......

Toilets are fine but what about waste management?

  A study by international NGO WaterAid showed if all people waiting for household toilets in India were to stand in a line today, the queue would stretch from earth to moon and beyond.......

USAID to train staff in energy sector

The power ministry and United States Agency for International Development have jointly launched a programme to train 25,000 personnel in the energy sector. The programme, to be implemented over the......

USAID to give $10 mn to India's insurance sector

The United States Agency for International Development will provide a $10 million technical aid for development of Indian insurance sector over the next four years.Bearing Point, formerly known as......