More than 3,000 adolescents die every day, totalling 1.2 million deaths a year, from largely preventable causes, according to a report from WHO and partners. In 2015, more than two-thirds of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countrie
Anil Madhav Dave, the environment minister who passed away on Thursday, was a maverick in politics: he was an amateur pilot and once he did the parikrama, or circumambulation, of the Narmada river flying his Cessna 173 for 18 hours. Dave
The country is misallocating funds for the welfare of the poor; there has been an increase in the numbers of work-related migration; for every 1,000 voters’ there are only seven taxpayers – these are some of the interesting facts about
The Bihar government wants activist Anna Hazare to lead a mass movement on Ganga for them. Last year, Bihar was one of the major victims of floods in the Gangetic plains. Almost 12 districts and hundreds of villages on the
Nobody ever learnt a language that was imposed on them. Language is an emotive issue and history is replete with instances when making a language mandatory has led to outrage and even bloodletting. We don’t seem to have learnt our lessons fr
Trying to make the most of the demonetisation drive, the government has taken yet another follow-up step and launched an Operation Clean Portal. Its aim is to “enable citizen engagement for creating a tax compliant society and transparent ta
NTPC-NETRA (NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance) and CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee have developed high strength fly ash based geopolymer concrete for construction of road. A geopolymer concrete road of 50 m
A UN report has come down heavily on Pakistan’s military courts, one of which had awarded death sentence to Kulbhushan Jadhav. India and Pakistan on Monday were pitted against each other at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ove
If you are a parent living in Delhi who has fought a battle of nursery admission or is a parent who would do that in near future, the film Hindi Medium is your story. Having covered the nursery admissions in the last one decade as a journalist and
There’s a story about seeking happiness that goes like this. A dog has an epiphany that happiness lies in its tail. So it begins an endless quest, moving in circles, chasing its tail but never quite catching up. Frustrated, the dog seeks out
How to put a finger on that elusive thing called happiness? Well, for a beginning, you could set up a department, as the Madhya Pradesh government has done, the first (and only one) of its kind in India. No matter if the creation involves some bur
I Ramamohan Rao, a former principal information officer, passed away on May 13. A professional communicator, Rao had been witness to crucial chunks of history like 1971 war with Pakistan, and fighting insurgencies in Punjab and Kashmir.
Three years ago Ashwani Kumar Sharma, who hails from Kauri block in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, was finding it difficult to run a family of five as he was unemployed. Little did he imagine that one day he would land a job with the In
Recent regulatory actions in India suggest the authorities are making a more concerted push to tackle banks` bad loan problems, says Fitch Ratings. "We believe that asset resolution will be a dominant theme in the sector over t
Cochin Shipyard Ltd, a Miniratna enterprise, is constructing four passenger-cum–cargo vessels for Andaman & Nicobar administration under the Make in India initiative. As per orders placed by the A&N administration, tw
At Raymond Limited’s modern textile facility in Vapi, whenever a supervisor has to check up on the looms, he doesn’t go walking around the factory floor asking the workers. He just looks at a computer screen. Looms in operation, their
A day after a global cyber ransomware attack, the Indian computer emergency response team of the ministry of electronics and information technology has advised organisations to apply patches to Windows systems. The details of patches, as sta
The initial public offering (IPO) of HUDCO, a Miniratna enterprise, witnessed an exceptional level of interest and the issue was oversubscribed by more than 79 times. This is the highest level of oversubscription witnessed in a dive
Genetically modified variety of mustard has got the nod for commercial cultivation from the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee. The recommendation for clearance has been sent to Environment Minister An
At Raymond Limited’s modern textile facility in Vapi, whenever a supervisor has to check up on the looms, he doesn’t go walking around the factory floor asking the workers. He just looks at a computer screen. Looms in operation, their
