Union Budget BOTH Arun Jaitley and P. Chidambaram studied the same subject and they both worked as lawyers for Indian and multinational ...

DIGITAL certificates (DCs) are basically digital files that work like an online password to verify the identity of a user or a computer. They are used ...

With the creation of two new sanctuaries, Maharashtra shows the way for a fresh approach to conservation.

Justice Katju stirs up a controversy by questioning the extension of service and promotion of an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court who faced allegations of corruption a decade ago.

The forum came of age at its summit in Brazil, but it can realise its full potential and establish its geopolitical importance only by achieving greater internal harmony and faster economic growth.

The Supreme Court restores a 1970 order relaxing norms in inter-departmental competitive examinations for S.C./S.T. candidates and upholds the constitutionality of reservation in promotions.

Joko Widodo becomes Indonesia’s first person from a non-elite, non-military background to win the presidential election, setting off charges of electoral skulduggery from the elitist section of the opposition.

The smart city, a 100 of which the NDA government has planned, is a utopian concept that excludes completely the urban poor and promises infrastructure systems to control urban living and that has the capitalist rather than the state as the custodian of citizens.

SUNDARARAJ THEODORE BASKARAN, 73, is the latest recipient of the “Iyal Virudhu” of the Toronto-based Tamil Literary Garden (TLG), a charitable ...

The Muslim-Sikh riots in Saharanpur are a part and product of the politics of consolidation in which the Muslim leadership stokes the fear of a community demoralised by the rise of the BJP. The saffron party is only too happy to further polarise society along religious lines.

IN his grand plunge into the genre of the tele-serial with Yudh, Amitabh Bachchan multitasks as a builder-miner-husband-father-multimillionaire who ...

FOR at least the past one year in India, much has been made of the “Gujarat model of development”, and the media have widely projected the idea that ...

ENDING the decade-long agonising wait for the parents and kin of the 94 children who were charred to death and 18 students who were seriously injured ...

TRIPURA Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is one of the key factors behind the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front’s massive electoral ...

THE road to Nalbagla village is undulating and meanders like a lazy rivulet through the hilly forest area of Mandai block in West Tripura district.

Social scientists fear that the new ICHR Chairman may revive the Sangh Parivar’s long-standing history rewriting project using Hindutva as a tool.

AS the Israeli military was pounding the Gaza Strip from the ground, air and sea, the Indian government mostly maintained a studied silence. The ...

The flattening of Gaza by Israel has nothing to do with Hamas or terrorism. It is about never-ending control over Palestinian land by the occupiers and denying the Palestinians the freedom they have been fighting for.

The smart city, a 100 of which the NDA government has planned, is a utopian concept that excludes completely the urban poor and promises infrastructure systems to control urban living and that has the capitalist rather than the state as the custodian of citizens.

SUNDARARAJ THEODORE BASKARAN, 73, is the latest recipient of the “Iyal Virudhu” of the Toronto-based Tamil Literary Garden (TLG), a charitable ...

The Muslim-Sikh riots in Saharanpur are a part and product of the politics of consolidation in which the Muslim leadership stokes the fear of a community demoralised by the rise of the BJP. The saffron party is only too happy to further polarise society along religious lines.

ENDING the decade-long agonising wait for the parents and kin of the 94 children who were charred to death and 18 students who were seriously injured ...

TRIPURA Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is one of the key factors behind the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front’s massive electoral ...

THE road to Nalbagla village is undulating and meanders like a lazy rivulet through the hilly forest area of Mandai block in West Tripura district.

Social scientists fear that the new ICHR Chairman may revive the Sangh Parivar’s long-standing history rewriting project using Hindutva as a tool.

The lust for communal hegemony rendered impossible a sharing of power that could have preserved the precious unity of a great country. The Sangh Parivar and its sympathisers in the Congress bear a heavy responsibility for Partition.

Haryana constitutes a separate Sikh gurdwaras management committee, but the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab insists that the Amritsar-based SGPC is the sole administrator of Sikh shrines.

Civil services aspirants are determined not to allow the aptitude test of the preliminary examination this year on the grounds that it privileges the English-educated and those with engineering and science backgrounds over those who do not write in English and who have specialised in the humanities.

The BJP reverses its earlier opposition to allowing more foreign investment in the insurance sector and this may well jeopardise the country’s economic security.

If some textbooks published recently by the Gujarat government are any indication, right-wing ideologues and activists have started the saffronisation of education in earnest.