Parliament's Budget session is likely to get off to a stormy start on Friday with Opposition parties demanding a discussion on the alleged mismanagement of the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj......
It will be interesting to see what shifts have been recorded in the last decade-and- a-half -- from the effects of demonetisation and Covid's second wave to the drop in fertility and increase in......
'I don't believe there is an international conspiracy to swamp tribals in India or in Jharkhand.' IMAGE: Polling officials carrying EVMs and other election materials leave for election duty in......
Bihar's alcohol ban in 2016 prevented 24 lakh cases of daily and weekly consumption, and 21 lakh cases of intimate partner violence, according to new research published in The Lancet Regional......
With the reality of coalition politics staring the BJP in its face, this was inevitable, points out Ramesh Menon. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leaves for Parliament to present the......
'The actions of Indian monetary authorities will depend on how quickly they want the inflation to come down to 4 per cent.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com C Rangarajan has been governor of......
The Union government on Thursday said that 5.9 million tonnes of lithium reserves have been found for the first time in the country in Jammu and Kashmir. Photograph: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters......
Six states out of 22 major states and Union Territories (UTs) generated fewer formal jobs for the youth in the September quarter than they did in the corresponding quarter a year ago, a Business......
India needs to spread irrigation and do so against a backdrop of rising water scarcity and depleting groundwater resources Climate change could adversely affect farmers income by up to 20-25 per......
Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia vacates his post on November 30 and Expenditure Secretary Ajay Narayan Jha, the second seniormost bureaucrat in the finance ministry, retires on January 31, the day......