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By Capt. Dibya Shankar Mishra Spring-summer comes with many delights in India. Holi – the festival of colours, Baisakhi – the glorious harvest festival in north India, Kaalbaishakhi – squally thunder storms that typically occur in the eastern Gangetic plains of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. Kaalbaisakhi has a very special place in the […]

New Delhi, Apr 14 (PTI) The nation we are to build has to be tolerant, harmonious and peaceful where the last person feels a part of the narrative of the country, President Pranab Mukherjee today said. Addressing a batch of probationers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service at Rashtrapati Bhavan, he said the nation which “we […]

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh: For a state promoting itself as an ideal investment destination under the ‘Happening Haryana’ banner, the violent events of the past 10 days arising out of the Jat community’s agitation for job reservations have come as a rude setback. Politics is now being blamed for the Jat agitation spinning out of […]

By:- Subhashish Panigrahi India would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project. Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken a historical step by banning differential pricing without discriminating services. In their notes TRAI has […]

The first part of this three-part series on the eight northeastern states analysed economic indicators, and the second part physical infrastructure. The third part looks at social indicators, such as literacy, infant mortality, school enrolment, and crimes against women and children. Mizoram has the highest literacy rate in the northeast at 91.3 percent, according to […]

Kolkata: With the recent terror attack in Punjab’s Pathankot town yet again derailing India-Pakistan peace talks, a group of netizens from both sides of the border have taken to social networking sites advocating peace. With the hashtags ‘ProfileForPeace’, ‘IndoPakKeepTalking’ ‘KillTerrorismNotTalks, people from various parts of India, Pakistan and even the UK and the US have […]

By Abhishek Waghmare Vasudev Lokhande is the beneficiary of an ambitious Maharashtra government programme to permanently transform the lives of farmers devastated by a record-setting drought, but he is unhappy about its benefits. In an agrarian eastern corner of IndiaÂ’s most industrialised state, Lokhande – a weathered, unsmiling farmer clad in sandals, crumpled brown pants […]

By Ranvir S. Nayar French President Francois Hollande visits India as guest of honour at the Republic Day parade on January 26. Is the visit a sign of the coming of age of Indo-French relations? It’s been almost two years to the date from Hollande’s first visit to India as president. In the interregnum, a […]

By Amulya Ganguli Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent half a century ago robbed India and his party, the Congress, of many cherished possibilities which might have led the country and the party to greater glory. From this aspect, his life which was tragically cut short at the age of 61 can be regarded as […]

By Amulya Ganguli As in the case of decriminalising homosexuality, the Supreme Court is a few steps behind perceptions and social reality in India in the matter of favouring official restrictions on the consumption of alcohol. In its judgment supporting the Kerala government’s decision to confine drinking in public to bars in five-star hotels, the […]

By Jai Dhar Gupta Disclaimers upfront! This is to share my personal journey over the last two years which has led me to question all my actions. It started in November, 2013, while I was training for a long distance race in the cold, crisp air of Delhi. One evening, I started wheezing. No worries, […]

By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad: The trust a kirana merchant enjoys in the neighbourhood and the preference of Indian consumers to come in direct contact with sellers is opening the doors of next big wave in e-commerce – the assisted e-commerce. With the big boys virtually exhausting the online shoppers, the focus is now on the […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday directed the concerned department officials to expedite the much-awaited Khurda-Balangir railway project. He also directed the officials to expedite the land acquisition process for the said project. In his bi-monthly review meeting on the project work at the State Secretariat here, the chief minister, while expressing satisfaction over […]

By Amulya Ganguli By promising, in response to a query in London, that the law will not spare those disturbing social harmony in the land of the Buddha and Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken much of the sting out of the complaints of those protesting against the supposedly prevailing “intolerance”. The heightened prospects […]

The media and political pundits needed the Bihar election outcome to conclude that the Modi wave is now officially over. The Indian markets, however, have been giving this signal for many months now with equities not participating in yet another global liquidity driven rally with the benchmark indices remaining more than 15 percent off their […]

New York: Despite what those ongoing US presidential primaries might lead one to think, a multi-disciplinary team of scientists finds that leadership is generally achieved as individuals gain experience — in both humans and non-humans. The experts from a wide range of disciplines examined patterns of leadership in a set of small-scale mammalian societies, including […]

By Robert J. Shapiro India’s modest improvement in the World Bank’s “Doing Business Index” this year, along with the Bank’s projection that the economy will continue to experience merely moderate growth, were not the boosts that Indian officials hoped for. The Bank’s assessment, however, highlights several persistent shortcomings that continue to dampen investment, perhaps most […]

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday hoped that Durga Puja “strengthen the moral foundations of our society and turn us away from all that divides and destroys”. “May Goddess Durga guide us on to the path of justice, truth and wisdom. Let us pray to the universal mother to instill in us a spirit […]

More than a month has passed since the public uprising and subsequent agitation in Churachandpur district of Manipur after three controversial bills were passed by the state government on August 31. The three bills are the Protection of Manipur People’s Bill 2015, the Manipur Shops and Establishment (Second Amendment) Bill 2015, and the Manipur Land […]

On May 12, 2014, a fortnight before the Narendra Modi government assumed office, the Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, had categorically asserted that women were not suited to be fighters pilots. “As far as flying fighter planes is concerned, it’s a very challenging job. Women are by nature not physically […]