There is an India connect to the nobel prize for physics, with the discovery paper having contribution from 39 Indian authors/scientists from nine institutions. The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics has been conferred upon
Organ donation from one body can save five people and as many as 150 medical students can learn from a cadaver. With one body, the country will develop 150 medical students who will be well trained and donating a body will be beneficial for others
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government after a group of farmers returning from a protest against anti-farmer policies were allegedly forced to strip and then assaulted by police personnel.
Kashinath Thakur, who has just returned to work after a month-long vacation, was busy tightening screws on a huge steel plate which will be placed on the waist of the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The ‘Statue of Unity&r
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of an alleged fake encounter of a 27-year-old gangster Sumit Gurjar in Greater Noida on October 3. Notices have been issued to the chief secretary and the di
Lancet journal on health has asked the Indian government against taking a hasty step on the haphazard integration of the Indian system of medicine (Ayush) with the modern medicine based on allopathy to overcome the acute shortage of doctors.
The Congress described as “melodramatic theatrics” the speech by prime minister Narendra Modi who defended the economy on a day wh
Prime minister Narendra Modi strongly defended the fundamentals of the Indian economy, gave a befitting reply to critics a
The Dokalam standoff has come and gone. After a tense 73 days, the situation on the ground appears normal but the outcome of the standoff is not clear – mostly because no joint statement has been issued by India and China. Rather, conflictin
The projection of real Gross Value Added (GVA) growth for 2017-18 has been revised down to 6.7 percent from the August 2017 projection of 7.3 percent, with risks evenly balanced, said the Reserve Bank of India as it kept the repo rate unchan
Vice president M Venkaiah Naidu has said that linking of rivers will help farmers to grow more crops and increase their earnings. He said governments have been considering inter-linking of rivers for decades, but because of certain hurdles the pla
Bolstering the funding sources for efficient but liquidity crunched small and medium-scale enterprises is also likely to be important in arresting the next wave of NPAs, said an RBI paper. The paper “Non-Bank Fun
The appointment of senior BJP leader Banwari Lal Purohit as governor of Tamil Nadu is being seen by experts as a BJP strategy to retain an edge in the state politics. The state, which has been facing political turmoil, has got a full tim
Address: Homeless It’s a strange address: Homeless, Basti Nizamuddin, Nizamuddin West, New Delhi. But this is what is printed on Salma’s voter identity card. She has had it laminated and keeps it in a tattere
In 2010, a group of people had sought improvement of facilities at the Elphinstone railway station, where tragedy struck on Friday with 22 people being killed in a stampede. The FOB on which people were crushed to death is 150-year
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in separate reports, had focused on railway foot over bridges (FOB) and called for building more FOBs of prescribed size. As many as
The derailment of the Puri-Haridwar Utkal Express on August 19 at Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh which killed 23 people has raised serious questions on the functioning of the railway board. A number of derailments in recent months indica
As many as 167 centres for womens studies and 35 centres for social exclusion are facing an uncertain future as the University Grants Commission (UGC) has to take a call on whether to continue funding these institutions after September 30.
The poor state of railway infrastructure stood exposed on Friday when a stampede broke out on a poorly maintained and narrow foot over bridge in Mumbai, killing 22 people and leaving scores injured. The massive crush of people took
Once is a mistake. Twice is a pattern. And thrice is a habit. The working of Indian Railways reflects all three at the same time. Yes, it is one of the busiest networks in the world and transports more than eight billion passengers a year, so the
