Disruptions from demonetisation and events surrounding the implementation of GST led to a setback in economic activity and a potentially larger negative effect on the poor and vulnerable, said a World Bank report. The International
If every year Delhi feels like a gas chamber during Diwali, then this year will hopefully be a lot better following a ban imposed on firecrackers by the supreme court. The elderly, the infirm, the lung and heart patients and those s
Rohim Momin was barely 17 years old in 2013, when he got off the train in Delhi and took his first steps towards an uncertain life in the city. Accompanied by a few fellows from his village in Malda, West Bengal, Momin was to join the throngs of m
More than 3 million people across 110 countries, including India, observed the Global Day of Action and asked their governments “what have you done on the SDGs?” On September 25, 2015 the leaders from 193 countries adopted Ag
Strict consumer rights protection bill will be tabled in the next session of parliament for protection of consumer’s rights, said CR Chaudhary, minister of state for consumer affairs. India is the second largest market of cosm
The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) is likely to lose control over architecture colleges and institutes in the country. The proposal to transfer their reins from the MHRD to the ministry of urban development (MoUD), now called minist
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched multiple infrastructure projects, including an international airport, near Rajkot in poll-bound Gujarat and assured that water from Narmada river will help make Surendranagar an industrial hub.
The Congress has criticised the changes made in the Goods and Services Tax (GST), saying it is “too little, too late”.
Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been simplified for small businesses and exporters. Here are the key changes that were introduced following a GST council meeting that was chaired by finance minister Arun Jaitley.
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
