This year, don’t speed dial the Army
In the 2013 Uttarakhand deluge, when the Army was single-handedly tackling relief work, someone on Facebook said he was irritated by the constant praise being heaped on the Army’s heroic efforts. Enou...
In the 2013 Uttarakhand deluge, when the Army was single-handedly tackling relief work, someone on Facebook said he was irritated by the constant praise being heaped on the Army’s heroic efforts. Enou...
The brouhaha over a news report that Indian businessman Sajjan Jindal may have acted as an intermediary between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan, Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif, in the conte...
The fifth leap year since the new millennium dawned, 2016 has been designated as the ‘International year of pulses’ by the UN General Assembly. The state of political and economic turbulence is su...
The regulation that mobile phone users be paid a compensation of Rs. 1 for every call dropped, up to a maximum of three calls a day, will come into effect on January 1, TRAI chairman R.S. Sharma said...
Everything seemed to finally fall into place in Bangkok, where over four hours the National Security Advisers met along with the Foreign Secretaries and a core team of strategists, a meeting that came through backchannel efforts
The five-day plenum of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) ended here on Thursday with a resolve to strengthen the links of the party with the people for it to emerge as a revolutionary party with...
The frequency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits abroad has been one of the defining marks of his tenure. In 2014, Mr. Modi visited 9 countries in 7 months (1.2 countries a month), and doubled ...
What matters more for development: location or community? New official data show that while some communities do better than others in sex ratio and literacy, State-level differences can be as importa...
January will be a decisive month for the BJP as the countdown to the election of its next president has begun in earnest with announcement of a series of meetings between the BJP and the RSS.According...
In an attempt to make roads safer, the Union government will soon make it mandatory for all two-wheelers to fit anti-lock braking system (ABS) and combined braking system (CBS) by April 2019.The Unio...
Petrol price was on Thursday cut by 63 paise a litre and diesel by Rs 1.06 a litre, the third reduction this month on the back of softening in global oil rates. Petrol will now cost Rs. 59.35 a lit...
The All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) has decided to go ahead with its nationwide bank strike on January 8, after the conciliation talks held by the Chief Labour Commissioner in New Delhi...
As the flood-affected people of Chennai try to piece their lives together, large Mumbai-based corporates with a significant presence in the southern city and many multinational corporations running b...
There is a reason to cheer for underprivileged students in Kashmir on New Year eve. In a first of its kind, the Jammu and Kashmir government has embarked on its biggest-ever initiative in the educati...
Three successive years of deficient rain has hit banana production in Maharashtra and farmers were now forced to sell their product at the lowest of rates to a cartel of traders, who go on to sell th...
Mahesh Motewar, Chairman and Managing Director of the Pune-based collective investment scheme company, Samruddha Jeevan Foods India Ltd. which is mired in a massive chit fund scam, was shifted to the...
The Congress seemed to be continuing with the trend of doing well in local polls, especially in the BJP-ruled States, as it won eight out of 11 seats in the civic polls in Chhattisgarh, the results o...
Amid speculation over his absence in the ‘Saifai Mahotsav’, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday attended the annual extravaganza and flagged off a cycle rally here. The rally, f...
Music maestro Ilaiyaraja has been selected for Kerala Tourism’s Nishagandhi Puraskaram 2016 for his artistic excellence and contribution to the Indian film music industry.Announcing this at a press co...
The Union government and the World Bank signed a $50-million credit agreement for a project aimed at helping young people from minority communities complete their education and improve their employme...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked bureaucrats to work on breakthroughs in governance, in a meeting with Secretaries to the government on Thursday. The Prime Minister urged secretaries to come up wit...
Pop star Remo Fernandes on Thursday evening moved the Goa Children’s Court, seeking anticipatory bail in a case related to verbally abusing a teenage girl. The hearing of the same has been fixed for ...
As it faces another poll in West Bengal, five years after the All India Trinamool Congress ended its 34-year rule, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has brainstormed on ways to revive its saggin...
‘Free’ and ‘altruism’ are words that generally have a positive ring to them. But it’s clear that social media behemoth Facebook’s Free Basics programme, which it pitches as an altruistic endeavour to...
The policy change at the world’s largest software company follows similar moves since October by Internet giants Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc and most recently Yahoo Inc.