When Kointa Swain suffered from a spell of high fever, shivering and loss of appetite for the first time, she was 30-years-old. As the fever ‘attacks’ kept recurring, she visited the district hospital near her village, Kapileswarpur in
Water is essential for sustaining life and our ecosystem as a whole and India is by far the largest and fastest growing consumer of ground water in the world. In our country, ground water is a common pool resource (CPR), used by millions of farmer
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), a United Nations body of independent human rights experts, has adopted its ruling on Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, announcing his deprivation of liberty as arbitrary and asking the gover
The first and foremost requirement of a city to be called smart is cleanliness. Thus, the Swachh Bharat mission was accorded a huge welcome by the media, with good reasons, when it was launched in October 2014. Newspapers had photographs of
Failure is an opportunity to learn and grow. But only a few adhere to this adage and Rasool Khan is one such person. After many failures at eking out a decent living, he succeeded in making roads out of plastic waste. Today when his innovation is
President Pranab Mukherjee conducted a fleet review of the Indian Navy ships amid a glittering ocean off Vizag shore on Saturday. Around 50 navies and 24 foreign ships were participants in the International Fleet Review, the second to be hel
Delhi High Court on Friday slammed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) over the ongoing workers` strike in the national capital and observed that it has led to lots of suffering to the common people. The MCD workers` strike entered its eleven
The sun had just set in this village of Tikamgarh district in Madhya Pradesh. The sudden darkness engulfed us as our car was about to hit the well-carpeted single-lane road at the end of a nearly 2.5 km dirt track. Our vehicle came to a screeching
Blaming, Reserve bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has blamed multinational corporations for tax controversies and felt that their indulgence in avoidance and evasion results in legal battles. "Occasionally, there is govern
Prime minister Narendra Modi will from Friday (February 5) begin his three-day visit to Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. He will conclude his visit on February 7. Today, Modi will inaugurate the 12th South Asian Games at Guwahati, in which Afghan
The budget session of parliament will commence from February 23 and the government will present the general budget on February 29. The dates were decided at a meeting of the cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs, chaired by home minister Rajn
Maharashtra governor Vidyasagar Rao has given his sanction to prosecute state’s former chief minister and Congress leader Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing society scam. The governor`s sanction paves the way for the arrest of Chavan, who wa
Many things happen in one’s childhood which are never questioned, or are questioned only with the passage of time. A veil of secrecy had prevailed over the fact that some Muslim and tribal communities in the world have been practising female
Following the brutal assault on Tanzanian student in Bengaluru, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has asked the Karnataka government to explain the incident and send the report immediately. This morning Karnataka chief minister Siddaraiah tweet
In observations that are sure to trigger a big debate, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court expressed serious concern over the growing number of corruption cases and called on the citizens to launch a non-cooperation movement if the government fa
The union health ministry has sounded an alert for Zika and appointed the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as the nodal agency for investigation of any outbreak of the viral infection in India. This comes in the back
The union cabinet today has cleared a proposal to sell coal to non-power sectors like steel, iron and cement through auction. With this the past practice of selective allocation comes an end and potentially raising costs for users.
Citing climate changes that would be detrimental to the agro-sector in 14 districts affected by severe drought across Vidarbha and Marathwada (region with maximum farmer suicides), a report by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Developmen
The Supreme Court today cleared the famous Chowpatty beach in Mumbai to be the venue of a huge Make In India event to draw foreign investors. The investor summit, scheduled to launch on February 13 for six days, will be inaugurated by Prime Minist
Not springing any surprises in budget month, the risk conscious governor of reserve bank of India today maintained status quo on key interest rates. Raghuram Rajan has kept the repo or short term lending rate remains unchanged at 6.75 per cent and
