Thousands of hands went up in the air to greet the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi as he landed in the semi urban constituency of Aurangabad in Bihar after making the crowd to wait for......
Uttarakhand was a tragedy that none of us will forget. As experts analysed the tragedy, it became clear that the disaster was more man made. The intergovernmental panel on climate change in its......
Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi plans to visit Papasanipalli village in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district on November 17 to witness rural development programmes. Suu Kyi will be......
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Sunday urged his successor D V Sadananda Gowda to immediately release Rs 200 crore for providing employment to people in drought-hit areas under......
The war of words between Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has put the state's political cauldron on the boil. With Rahul making Maya bashing a......
Deep fiscal adjustment would face resistance but the prize is so huge that it must surely be a top priority for policymakers, notes Vijay Joshi An enormous harvest of social gain could be reaped......
One solution to India's challenges of education, employment, employability lies in state governments adopting apprenticeships on a large scale, say Manish Sabharwal & Sumit Kumar. In 1935, a......
Finance ministry’s drive is meant to meet fiscal deficit target and improve overall efficiency in government spending. To ensure that the fiscal deficit target of 3.9 per cent of gross......
Schemes are proposed to become an amalgam of priorities laid down by statesThe new body to replace the five-decade-old Planning Commission is expected to be structurally different from the......
The proposal to link the food subsidy offered by the government with the Aadhaar number is learnt to be back on the table. This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's endorsement of Aadhaar and......