The Indian Medical Association has written to Union Health Minister JP Nadda seeking enactment of a special central law to curb attacks and violence against doctors as a "deterrence" measure,......
The die is cast. Manmohan Singh's government has announced that the legislation to reserve additional 27 per cent seats in higher educational institutions will be introduced in the monsoon session......
If an elected government had been sworn in, Jung's tenure and the government would have been more or less co-terminus and Jung would have been just the ceremonial head of Delhi. Now, he will run......
Could the Centre and the prime minister have achieved more than what they did on curbing the endemic spread through more of the Modi outreach, given his credibility and unchallenged ability to......
IMAGE: Security personnel stand guard at the NIT after clashes. All photographs: Umar Ganie With tension prevailing at the NIT in Srinagar, a two-member team from the Union HRD ministry on......
The coal sector will soon get a regulator of its own, like the ones for insurance and telecom, to oversee key issues such as price for long-term fuel supply and e-auctioning. "A cabinet note for......
Asian Development Bank president Haruhiko Kuroda on Thursday said that India was on the right track and that he was confident that the public and private sectors, working in partnership and in......
While the ministry of consumer affairs, which controls the Food Corporation of India, is planning to engage global consultants McKinsey & Company to carry out a study to make FCI more efficient at......
A recent realisation has been that starting electricity reforms with generation has been a non-starter. In fact, two senior World Bank officers compared it to "trying to build a house by starting......
With uncertainties of the global economic volatility still looming, hiring by information technology companies is set to hit the slow lane this year. According to estimates by industry analysts and......