Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has cancelled his participation in a seminar at the Sussex University where he was scheduled to deliver a lecture on Monday amid claims by rights groups that he......
Filippo Osella, an anthropologist and academician from the UK currently involved in research on traditional fishing in Kerala, was deported to his country by India soon after his arrival at the......
Tribal rights activist Gladson Dungdung was offloaded from a London-bound Air India flight in New Delhi on Monday even as the national carrier sought to distance itself from the incident saying he......
'Our civil society here is vibrant, and courageous, although it is beaten up and beaten down, repeatedly.' IMAGE: A Tiranga walkathon on the eve of Independence Day in Mumbai, August 14, 2023.......
Marriage is the most common purpose of migration, with 49 per cent migrating for marriage, followed by moving with households (15 per cent) and work/employment (10 per cent), discovers Devanik......
Tata Trusts hold a controlling 66 per cent stake in Tata Sons, the holding and promoter firm of Tata Group companies. Noel Tata, half-brother of legendary industrialist late Ratan Tata, will be the......
Economist Abhijit Sen, a former Planning Commission member and one of the country's foremost experts on rural economy, died on Monday night. He was 72. IMAGE: Economist Abhijit Sen. Photograph:......
India-born Suma Chakrabarti will succeed Germany's Thomas Mirow as the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which has been supporting economic transition in......
It is widely but wrongly believed that the more inactive the Indian state, the better the chances of a start-up culture flowering, notes Ajit Balakrishnan It is the start-up season. It......
Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian State, says Ajit Balakrishnan. The current debate in India about how to......
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)chairman Giles Clarke on Friday paid tribute to former Indian Test captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who died after a prolonged illness in New Delhi, saying the......
Last Wednesday, October 5, one of the finest all-rounders of his time turned 70. Imran Khan, who led Pakistan to its only World Cup title in 1992, took 362 Test wickets and 182 ODI wickets in a......
Determination allied with intelligence helped David Sheppard fashion a successful if intermittent career in the strong England side of the 1950s before rising to the office of bishop in the Church......
Jofra Archer would have walked out of the West Indies dressing room on Friday wearing burgundy not light blue. That he did not can be traced back to the day he was left out of the West Indies squad......
Out-of-favour India batsman Virender Sehwag and Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan will lead two MCC sides in a series of matches in the Middle East to help launch the new county season.......