The Bihar government has plans to invite the state's elected representatives, including legislators, to undergo a HIV/AIDS test in October.If the plan is carried out, they will probably become the......
Bihar is facing an acute shortage of condoms meant for free distribution for ensuring birth control and safe sex to fight out the AIDS menace.Official sources in the Bihar State Aids Control......
A woman from Kolkata was forced to be a domestic help by an Indian in the US. She was provided a meal a day and no wages. Another woman from Kolkata was beaten up and kept in confinement. A Kolkata......
These self-appointed well-wishers of AMU are basically for the control or police model of university governance.They have no faith whatsoever in the democratic functioning of the universities,......
Sanjay Kumar, Anjali Raj, Balakrishna Sah, Sanam Kumari are all Hindus, but who share one other thing in common: all of them have secured top ranks in Class X (Fauquania) and XII (Maulvi)......
The Bill is well-intentioned, but it may stifle the development of private schools and add to the bureaucracyPartha J Shah, President, Centre for Civil SocietyThe only positive aspect of the Right......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may discover from the experiences of his predecessor Rajiv Gandhi that there are limits to what technology can achieve, notes Kanika Datta Technology is back in......
If poverty reduction in India were judged by the performance of the many targeted poverty reduction programmes, the result would be deemed an abysmal failure. As the Prime Minister put it......
Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......
Mr. Speaker, Sir It is my privilege to present the Budget for 2007-08. I. A MID-TERM REPORT CARD ON THE ECONOMY 2. In November 2006, the UPA Government crossed the midpoint of its term of office. A......
Former Board of Control for Cricket in India chief Sharad Pawar could make a sensational return as president. There is talk that the Maharashtra politician could emerge an unlikely candidate to......